How to Catch a Buzz Without Blowing Your Diet

Aug 1

You deserve to relax and enjoy your weekends, especially during summer. However, it's easy to overindulge and derail your weight loss progress. Here are five tips to help you have fun without sabotaging your goals.

1. Limit carbs throughout the day

You want to ideally cut carbs to 1.5 g/kg body weight. Make sure you get all carbs from vegetables and the tag-along carbs in some protein sources. Avoid high starchy carbs like rice, potatoes and bread.

2. Restrict your intake of dietary fat

Ideally, you should be cutting your fats down to 0.3 g/kg if your body weight (or as close to this figure as possible). Usually this falls somewhere around 15-25g if fat intake for the day. If you restrict more fats, you don’t need to necessarily restrict carbs as much. One of these macros however should be significantly less on the day/night you plan on drinking.

3. Stick to hard liquor and skip the sugary mixers

Especially while drinking, why waste calories on the chasers? Opt for drinking something like tequila/vodka/gin and club soda. Lime juice is a nice way to improve taste in drinks without adding many calories as well.

4. Make sure to drink water between your drinks

Alternate your drink with a glass of water so you don’t wake up with a killer hangover and are can effectively pace yourself throughout the night.

5. Eat as much protein as you want

Due to the limit on dietary fat and carbs, you need to get your protein from lean sources. Protein sources such as low-fat cottage cheese, protein powder, chicken, turkey, tuna, pork and egg whites are good sources of protein this day.

Keep in mind, If fat loss is your number one goal, I recommend limiting drinking to one evening per week. Apply this protocol and you will lose fat on a weekly basis as long as your diet is on point for the rest of the week.⠀⠀⠀