How To Enjoy Easter Treats While Sticking With Your Goals
Much like Christmas, people often overindulge at Easter, and let’s face it, Easter eggs are incredibly hard to resist.
However, enjoying a chocolate feast, a big roast or some bank holiday drinks isn’t going to derail your progress, so here are some tips on how you can relax over Easter while still being able to achieve your goals.
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- 80/20 Rule
The best way to progress with nutrition and training is to be consistent and committed. This is only possible if you have a balanced approach to eating clean and working out and adopt an 80/20 mindset.
This means you eat healthily 80 per cent of the time, and foods with lower nutritional value - chocolate eggs, simnel cake or the shredded wheat nests your kid made, for instance - 20 per cent of the time.
If you have this balance to your eating, a special occasion like Easter, or even birthdays, anniversaries and parties, won’t feel daunting, as you are not in the habit of completely restricting yourself.
You can easily tuck into a Cadbury’s Creme Egg if you have an allowance for the less nutritious foods every day anyway!
- Making memories
Okay, so you might tip the balance to over 20 per cent over Easter weekend, thanks to buttery hot cross buns and countless Easter egg hunts, but that’s alright too.
Easter comes just once a year and it is important to your mental health that you enjoy special occasions without feeling guilty.
Don’t forget it’s not just your physical wellbeing that you should work on, but your mental health too, so scrap the calorie counter for one day and give yourself a break in order to make some special memories with your families.
- Moderation
Of course, if you want to maintain control over what you consume over the bank holiday, particularly if you have an aesthetic or physical goal you’re working towards, it is perfectly possible to do so.
Simply make better choices when it comes to Easter treats by keeping an eye on calorie and sugar content. For instance, a KitKat Caramel Cookie Collision egg has a massive 2,926 calories and 304.6g of sugar for the egg, bars and pack of mini eggs.
This isn’t even the most calorific egg on the market, as Hotel Chocolat’s Unbelievably Vegan Ostrich Easter Egg has 6,435 calories, 334.4g of sugar and 463.1g of fat. However, it’s unlikely anyone would eat 1.1kg of chocolate in one go.
You can still enjoy some Easter chocolate without overindulging though, as a small bag of Cadbury’s Mini Eggs contains just 148 calories and 20.5g of sugar, and a Creme Egg has 177 calories, which is much more reasonable in comparison.
- Stay active
It is also a good idea to stay active if you think you’re going to eat more over the Easter weekend. Keep up with the training programme from your online fitness coach or enjoy some physical activities the whole family can get involved in, from Park Runs to long walks.