The fitness of a woman who is trying to stay fit but live a normal life doesn’t change in one day of eating poorly.  If you’re wondering why you gorged yourself on Christmas day, and how you can get that lean fit physique back, fit moms & fit chicks, and fit guys: There is a perfect combination that is simple and very doable to help you get that  beautiful progressively fit contour back in your body lines.  There are a lot of solutions out there, but this is by far the most optimal, practical, tried and true method of fitness execution that you can possibly reach your fitness results through.  When you think about the way you feel normally, and then you think about a day after drinking a whole lot of alcohol, you think of a hangover.  Yes, we can all relate to that word: hangover- the consequence of “too much.” With food, it’s no different.  We are very naturally wired to be moderate, and thus, even with food or fitness, our body sounds off alarms when moderation is botched.  Thus, the food hangover.

Fitness Buffs are familiar with this, as we’ve all experienced food hangovers in our quest for perfect dietary balances.  We have eaten perfectly for weeks on end, training for our stage presentations in fitness competitions.  Then, the second we come off stage, GORGE! We proceeded to eat like garbage disposals for the next 24 hours.  It’s part of what people do to learn balance.  ”The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”  Thus, as a fitness personality myself, having gone through this in my first few fitness competitions (yes, it subsided with repeated episodes that taught me it feels like utter crap, so I quit doing it), I have learned what my colleagues in the fitness competition industry do.  We have all, our entire fitness population of athletes, gone the gorge route, and felt like crap the day after.  It’s a load up of sodium and sugars and fats and foreign things that our bodies are not used to on a daily basis that makes our fitness levels, mental acuity and energy feel completely extinguished.  Fitness people know that it’s just a food hangover, and we know how to cure it, based on our own experience.

Hydration is key here.  I normally drink about a gallon of water a day, so I stay hydrated.  Yet, the day after an episode of gorging, I have learned that water will balance my body back to it’s normal fitness state within a day, when combined with even mild activity. When you drink a lot of water, you flush out the toxic buildup of those excessive properties you added in when eating too much.

So, whether you are fit, or whether you are somewhat out of shape, if you’re experiencing a food hangover, water and walking will fit your body back into it’s normal mold.  Take a walk in the morning with some water in your system.  Flush by drinking approximately 4 liters of water if you are not one to hydrate extremely on a daily basis.  If you’re into fitness, chances are you drink a lot of water, so you will want to double your normal intake in that case.  For me, I normally drink a gallon (because it’s normal for my fitness lifestyle, and athletes typically acquire that 1-gallon habit), so if I eat too much, I’ll take in 1.75 or 2 gallons of water for a day after eating in a way that was not only excessive, but also not fitness oriented in it’s ingredients.  Everyone has cheat days, and they should.  Those girls who walk around eating perfect all the time, well, they’re never happy.  Being “perfect” isn’t the key, it’s “perfect balance” that impacts our fitness lifestyle in the most effective and empowering ways.

You are worth the work. Be Phenomenal.

-Nita Lee Marquez, Fitness Empowerment Author, IFBB Pro, Miss National Fitness, and Proud Mother of Three

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