The matter in summary: • It can be challenging to return to everyday routines after the holiday, especially if you have eaten extra. • Mental and physical trainer, Mariann Deila Bryn, warns against jumping on an extreme diet. This can be painful and often only lasts a few days.• Bryn recommends returning to normal routines, eating normal food and being physically active. This will make you feel better after a few days.• If you want to start healthier routines, Bryn advises making an appointment with someone, being kind to yourself, shifting your focus to healthier foods and removing unhealthy temptations from your surroundings. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. The summer holidays are almost over for most people. And maybe you’ve indulged a little extra? An ice cream a day is good for the stomach. Photo: Ole Oskar Eriksen / news Ice cream, crisps, snop, up to several glasses with something good in them and late dinners. Because yes, it is a holiday. Pensioners Kjersti Eliassen and Anne Hagen recognize each other. – You have to enjoy yourself when you can, says Eliassen. – I always enjoy myself and do what I want and what I want, says Hagen. Kjersti Eliassen and Anne Hagen think it is important to enjoy yourself while you can. Photo: Ole Oskar Eriksen / news Trond Svenskerud enjoys his last day of holiday on the boat, before he goes back to work. He thinks he has no holiday habits. Trond Svenskerud has the last part of his holiday in the boat. Soon the weekday will start again at work. Photo: Ole Oskar Eriksen / news – Just getting a little lazier and fatter, he jokes. – You don’t do too much, too much and enjoy yourself. Pampering myself with good food and a little good in the cup. It will be good to come back again during the weekday now. Svenskerud does not take any strict measures, and thinks perhaps it is best that way. The difficult transition It can be challenging to change habits you have formed after several weeks of holiday. Mariann Deila Bryn is a mental and physical trainer and knows herself well. – In any case, the first few days seem to me to be difficult, and I know many people also struggle with that. Mariann Deila Bryn works as a mental and physical trainer. Photo: Britt Boyesen / news She clarifies that the feeling you feel right after the holiday is in between. – It’s not like we’ve put on ten kilos during three weeks of holiday, although it can feel that way. There is one thing you absolutely should not do after the holiday, she says. – Don’t fall into the trap that so many do and jump on an extreme diet. Which holiday habit is the hardest to change? After many late summer evenings, going to bed is a struggle. 🥳 Get up in the morning! ⏰ Ice cream, crisps or snop. 🍨🍬 Something good in the glass every day. 🍺🍾 Show result Deila Bryn warns against having the ambition to train seven days a week and only eat chicken and broccoli. – It only lasts for four days, and there is only pain and agonizing along the way. Go back to the usual routines, eat the usual food and be physically active, says Deila Bryn. – Then after quite a few days you will feel much better again. If you want to get back to, or start with, healthier routines, the expert has advice: Make an agreement with someone It can be worthwhile to go together with partners or those you live with, or to just agree with yourself, advises Deila Bryn. – Practice the usual routines, and after a few days it will feel much easier. It is often the transition that can be demanding. Be kind to yourself It’s no use being strict. It is more appropriate to be supportive and straightforward. By that, Deila Bryn does not mean that one deserves wine or chocolate, but rather give the body good and nutritious food. If one then goes on a rampage, it’s no use yelling at oneself. – It is all or nothing that often breaks us when we have to establish healthy routines. You don’t need to think that now everything is ruined, yell at yourself and continue to eat unhealthy. Everything is not ruined for that reason. Shift the focus Focus on what you want more of, instead of what you shouldn’t eat, says Deila Bryn. – The more you think about everything you shouldn’t eat, the more energy you spend on abstaining from it. Shift your focus to the healthier foods you want to eat more of and fill the fridge with these. The Directorate of Health’s dietary advice 2024 Photo: Simon Skjelvik Brandseth / news Have a varied diet with lots of vegetables, fruit and berries, coarse cereals and fish, and limited amounts of processed meat, red meat, salt and sugar. Have a good balance between how much energy you take in through food and drink, and how much you consume through activity. Eat at least five portions of vegetables, fruit and berries every day. Eat whole grains every day. Eat fish for dinner two to three times a week. Feel free to also use fish as a topping. Choose lean meat and lean meat products. Limit the amount of processed meat and red meat. Make low-fat dairy products part of your daily diet. Choose cooking oils, liquid margarine and soft margarine, rather than hard margarine and butter. Choose foods with little salt, and limit the use of salt in cooking and on the food. Avoid food and drinks with a lot of sugar on a daily basis. Choose water as a thirst quencher. Remove temptations Another concrete tip is not to have all the unhealthy temptations readily available. Do you want to eat berries instead of chocolate; makes it easy by not having chocolate in the cupboard, but having berries there instead. – In this way, you organize your surroundings and help yourself to make better choices in the transition from holiday to everyday life. Published 04.08.2024, at 17.14
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