Lost your fitness or gained weight after your holidays?

5:2 with food and 4:3 with wine is how we do it during our 52 weeks of holiday!

The holiday is perfect with lots of fish, seafood, grilled food and salads. At home, it becomes more unhealthy with some sandwich at work, coffee bread etc. So forward to more holidays, I think 🙂.

I usually always feel much better during the summer when there are more berries, long walks with the family in the evenings and a lot of work to advise around our multi-headed extended family. After a tough year with sick parents/moving across the Atlantic/death/major and revolutionary changes in everyday routines, this summer has not been like any other. The routines I worked on during the spring have slowly declined, so now I'm working on new inspiration and desire for something that will clearly be a very tough autumn.

What a great plan you seem to have! Come on.

It is so nice to be in shape. Feels so good about it. And then neither for the weight nor the appearance but the feeling inside the body! The weight rarely hits me very much, 2-3 kg maybe over the years maybe. However, the volume changes a few sizes up or down. For me, weight is uninteresting.

Well, unfortunately I don't have any special tricks to keep in shape. I wouldn't exactly call eating well and exercising "tricks" 🙂 🙂 🙂.

Hug Lena

For us it's the opposite, less snacks and many steps every day means that we've actually lost weight during our holidays!

Yes, I recognise that. Even though I'm not working at the moment, I fall into this behaviour when everyone else is on holiday.
I don't really eat unhealthily, but too much and at the wrong times. Exercise is a bit sporadic and no routines are followed. It's high time to take care of myself again.
Lovely picture of you exercising ?

I am usually free, but I have always known since my youth that I can't eat more than I spend and most of the time it doesn't happen. I walk between 7-1o km per day here at home and when we are travelling it is sometimes more, sometimes less and in hotter areas maybe only 5 km. I like to cycle. The daily exercise is important to me and getting fresh air at the same time. I don't want to lock myself in a gym to exercise, but I like the concept of Friskis &Svettis.
I have a perfect training programme that my father once devised in the 60's for those in the army to get more strength in the abdomen, back, arms and knees - BRAK and it is still used in the military and with good effect. It takes me 20 minutes three times a week to do it and is great. Can be performed at home, in a hotel room - outside and has an incredibly good effect. You choose how many exercises to do, as well as the intensity and increase as you go along.

When it comes to food, we focus on a lot of seafood, chicken, vegetables and fruit. Red meat is quite rare, but sometimes a nice piece of meat is good too.
At home, I often cook Asian food, with an emphasis on Chinese, and besides being delicious and fresh, it is "light food" for the body.

I'm sure you'll be successful in your endeavours and you've already started your daily walks.

As pensioners, there aren't many holiday traps to fall into. We eat healthily all year round. Even healthier in the summer when almost everything comes from our own garden. There is more alcohol in the summer, but soon the more moderate winter will return. Living at Getingstorp helps to keep the weight constant.

I, who also have 52 weeks of holiday but have been seeing life in Sweden from a French perspective for ten years, can sometimes be horrified by what I perceive as a terrible health rush in Sweden. There is calorie counting, step counting (and at least 10,000 steps per day), different diets, not least LCHF and different fasting programmes, a lot of experimentation with different supplements and theories about lactose and gluten intolerance. One minute you should eat this, the next minute that. Of course, you should do what you feel good about and if that means physical activity at different levels, it's the traveller's business. But doctors only say a couple of things: quitting smoking is the single biggest health gain you can make. About three half-hour walks a week are good and sufficient. A varied, normal diet (I would like to add that the Swedish coffee habits with buns and cakes twice a day, very sturdy home cooking for many, pizza, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, chips, sweets and Friday night snacks are, I believe, the basis for many people's weight problems), too much stress and night-time snoozing in front of the TV and not least a mobile phone or tablet gives too little sleep. Stressing about not exercising can't reasonably be good either? Or to push yourself so hard that you get injuries or problems in your knees, feet, calves or whatever. In our years, it's worse than it ever was - you think you're still 35 and fall and break your feet, shoulders and hips on black ski slopes and on mountain hikes, resulting in long periods of convalescence. We live the southern French life at a leisurely pace. Dog walking, excursions and light gardening plus swimming in the summer is just right for us. The exercise bike has been sitting in the bathroom for years and doesn't even give us a guilty conscience. We eat smaller meals than in Sweden, drink rosé wine every day without the slightest shame, never anything between meals, but freshly baked baguette every morning. No exaggeration about fruit and vegetables either, rarely dark meat, more fish and seafood. And lots of olive oil with everything. The weight goes up and down a bit without causing us any problems, no French doctor has ever mentioned bmi, exercise or eating habits. Only smoking, which we gave up 20 years ago. A friend at our age said that she has realised that time is finite after all and will run out no matter what you do. Make the most of it, of course, and if that includes exercise in any form that makes you feel good, that's great! (Sorry for the long post but these differences in lifestyle fascinate me ????)

Good food has always interested me. Fruit and vegetables, fish, chicken, turkey, etc. Used to be a trained fitness instructor and has held weight loss classes.
The motion is the key.
I have never followed a diet, but my body tells me when and what it wants, in the right amount. I want food every four hours, but not because I get a headache. I almost never eat pastries or sweets.
A glass of red wine with food is never wrong.

I have really lost my shape after 9 months in Australia...! Virtually zero training, with the exception of 3 weeks in Cairns when I actually got the idea to tackle training again and took advantage of the free zumba sessions etc. that the city offered at that time, as well as my own training at the outdoor gyms across the esplanade. But otherwise, well... Ate mostly simple budget food so not so good ingredients all the time. But began to gain weight only towards the end of the stay, I think, drank a beer almost every night during the 35-day road trip and then I visited the little cousin who offered good food and wine every day, I think I started to feel a little doughy after that 😉 And now in Singapore I eat out both lunch and dinner, so I do not starve directly here either 😉 It will be nice to come home to normal and healthier eating habits and exercise ...

I have been running all summer, the only thing that works for me is to sign up for a race so that I keep the motivation up even during the holidays. First out is Tjejmilen in a few weeks. (And then of course I have received a lot of pep in the FB group "Vagabondform", good thing and fun that you hashtag! 🙂