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Balancing Indulgence and Wellness: How to Enjoy Your Vacation Without Regrets
Episode 80
Ever returned from holiday feeling like you need another holiday just to recover? You're not alone. That "sod it" holiday mindset can leave us feeling sluggish, bloated, and exhausted – the complete opposite of the rejuvenation we crave.
In this practical episode, we explore how to genuinely enjoy your holiday indulgences without sacrificing your wellbeing. From rich restaurant meals and tempting desserts to disrupted sleep patterns and travel stress, holidays present unique wellness challenges that can derail even our best intentions.
We dive into real strategies that work, starting with digestive support – the foundation of feeling good while traveling. Learn why probiotics before and during travel, digestive enzymes for those indulgent meals, and simply slowing down to properly chew can transform your holiday experience. Discover the essential elements of a travel-friendly homeopathic first aid kit that addresses everything from sunburn to food poisoning naturally.
Beyond digestion, we explore how maintaining some grounding habits from home creates stability amidst the holiday excitement. Whether it's bringing your favorite tea bags, keeping up a gentle morning movement practice, or capturing holiday inspiration in a fresh notebook, these simple routines provide anchoring without restriction.
During our conversation, we challenge the harmful mindset that you must "earn" holiday food or punish yourself after enjoying it. Instead, we offer a balanced approach where you can savor the gelato, enjoy the cocktails, and still maintain energy and wellness throughout your trip.
With thoughtful preparation and these practical tips, your next holiday can be truly restorative – a break that leaves you feeling fabulous rather than depleted. Share your own holiday wellness tips in our Facebook group – we'd love to hear what works for you!
How do you balance indulgence and wellness while traveling? Have you discovered strategies that help you feel great during and after your holidays?
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Speaker 2:Catherine, join us on a mission to embrace your fabulousness and redefine wellness. Get ready for some feistiness, inspiration, candy chats and humour as we journey together towards empowered well-being. Let's dive in.
Speaker 1:Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Far Too Fabulous podcast. So today we're talking about something that we all come up against at this time of year how do we go on holiday Although, to be honest, I'm not actually going on holiday this summer.
Speaker 2:I know this is like rubbing salt into the wound, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but how do we go on holiday eat the food, drink the cocktails, break the routine and still feel fabulous? Break the routine and still feel fabulous. So we've I think we've spoken about this before on an episode where a holiday should be a time where you do reset. It shouldn't be a time where you come back feeling worse than you went right. But how many times does that happen when you've, you know, just undone everything good that you do for yourself?
Speaker 2:yeah, you break that routine, you stop doing all the things that you've worked out are good for you, that help you with your energy and your mood, and everything. You stop doing all of that and you have a subject you generally do the opposite, absolute opposite, and then come back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how many people come back from holiday and say I had a great time, but I need a holiday to recover? Yeah, we don't want that, no, no we don't want that, so we thought we would go through some kind of tips and tricks for managing this situation. So I think we ought to look at why holidays can be a challenge yeah, which seems.
Speaker 2:Which seems crazy, isn't it? Because we spend all our time really looking forward to them, but you do, they're exhausted.
Speaker 1:In fact, the lead up to them is absolutely exhausting you do double the amount of work in the lead up to a holiday and then double the amount when you come back, don't you to compensate for?
Speaker 2:the holiday a lot. I know that people get really anxious about, like, the logistics of it, about getting ready, about making sure that they've got all of the right stuff. We're getting ready to go to Italy and it's just the two of us, which is amazing, so I'm ridiculously relaxed about it and I know it's all going to suddenly bite me on the bum, because we're travelling really, really light and so we do need to be a little bit organised to make sure I've got exactly what I want, because I can't just, at the last minute, sling everything from my wardrobe into my suitcase because I'm not going to have enough room. So yeah, and so I know that it's a big thing that people get very anxious about the lead up to holiday and then I mean, I don't know about you, but most people end up flying at ridiculous hours in the morning, don't they?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be completely messed up by the time I get to Italy. I'm going to be almost 24 hours without sleep.
Speaker 1:Oh are you? Yeah, oh no, that's harsh at the beginning of a holiday. It is, isn't?
Speaker 2:it, but I have actually. So, then I have scheduled the first day there to just be doing absolutely nothing, which I really can't wait for, in fact you're gonna need that, aren't you?
Speaker 1:so, generally speaking, when we go on holiday, we're eating different foods. They're often more sortier, richer, they can be sweeter, because they are restaurant level foods right, and that's what we're eating most of the time, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and we are in that kind of holiday mood, like you said, that sod it. And we, yeah, we're going to have the dessert because we're on holiday Every day?
Speaker 1:Yes, and if you're in an all-inclusive and you get to have dessert, lunch and dinner, I've paid for it, right, so I'm having it, I'm having it, I'm having it, yeah. So, yeah, we're eating different foods, we might be drinking more alcohol or caffeine, and we're going to be sleeping in a different bed, in potentially a different time zone, with air conditioning, different noises. Yeah, what I find interesting about sleeping in a different place is that, because your body wants you to be safe, it's very difficult to sleep the first night of anywhere different, because your body needs to make sure it's okay.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I mean I generally can sleep anywhere, stood up probably. But no, I get that. That. That makes perfect sense. And then obviously it's not just you, is it? If you're traveling with your partner or you're traveling with the family and kids, they're all going through that as well. So if you're there with the kids, they're all going through those kind of growing pains into holiday and getting used to where they are and they've got to get over that excitement and stuff. And I mean, well, parents that are listening know that's actually no holiday at all. It's even harder I.
Speaker 1:I always say that it's never a holiday unless the cooking is done for me. I've always got this thing about. I mean, we love to go camping, but that's not a rest because I'm still dealing with the food. And, in fact, who manages and books and organizes and researches most holidays in the family? Who does that? Yeah, I do, it's us right. Yeah, it's always the guys like I even will have everybody's documents, travel documents. Your mum, it's like yeah, it's like right, guys, we're going at this time, this is where we're going, it's just it. It blows my mind sometimes that that that is such a big job to do isn't it?
Speaker 2:however, you said that and we'll. We'll give a shout out to um, to tracy and sue the travel counsellors when they book everything. I am like the kid they've booked everything. They've printed everything out. I arrive at the airport at the time that they tell me to with my documents that they've printed out. The only thing I've brought is my passport. People are asking me like where are you flying to what time is your flight? I'm like I don't know. Ask sue, I've got no idea and it's, it's lovely. Yes, I mean, it's a little bit scary. Um, I am probably more relaxed than your average bear, but yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:Somebody else, somebody else dealt with it, but you still would have been the person who contacted. Sue said we're looking for a holiday this is our budget.
Speaker 1:This is, yeah, this is the thing, and you would have been the one that then went ahead and and got all the deposit paid and whatever. You know, it's just how it is, isn't it okay? So we just wanted to give you some tools to help you deal with some of these challenges. That's call it. So the first one and this is one that I am really on whenever I go away is digestive support.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I think this is another place of anxiety for people going away, isn't it? Because it's often if you, your gut's always the one that reacts to everything anything different, isn't it? Because it's often if your gut's always the one that reacts to everything anything different, isn't it? And people it's? It's an awful thing to happen when you're away, you want to be at home.
Speaker 1:If something like that happens to you yeah, and so what do you do then? Well, I must just say that the vast majority of people do have a disturbed digestive system when they're flying, and that is completely normal, and it's to do with the fact. Digestive system when they're flying, and that is completely normal, and it's to do with the fact that the position you're in when you're eating and the fact that you don't get up and move around afterwards it's completely different. The food has been made quite a long time ago and kept warm, so when it hits your system it's completely different. So the things that I will always do and I will do this in the lead up to going on holiday as well is probiotics, because you're going to be drinking different water and it depends on where you're going on holiday, but you could be exposed to more. You know nasties that your system isn't used to and doesn't know how to deal with. They're higher in minerals and things aren't they the water often?
Speaker 1:yeah, I will put in probiotics in the lead up to the holiday and then during the holiday, so you do like a sort of like 10, 5 or 10 day challenge with them or something like that yeah, yeah, because they're going to help support the gut. I will always take digestive enzymes with me because I know that food's going to be richer and it's not going to sit so nicely in my stomach.
Speaker 2:You often eat later as well, don't you? If it's hot, you don't feel like eating sort of through the day, you eat a little bit more, a little bit later than you would have done at home yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:And then I I have to remind myself to do this because I'm quite guilty of it in my everyday life of eating too fast. It's to just I'm on holiday, just slow down the eating. Chew my food properly. You cannot like the impact of just chewing your food is massive, yeah yeah, yeah, I'm like that as well.
Speaker 2:You're like, because you're so, you're on the go all the time, you don't do when you get to food you're like let's just get this done, so because we get on, need to go on to the next thing. Or mikey and mikey eats like that because he thinks someone's going to take it away from him, I think, loads his plate up because he thinks someone's gonna else is gonna eat it, and then he eats it fast because he thinks someone else is going to eat it and then he eats it fast because he thinks someone's going to take it away I think supporting your digestive system because of the worst thing if you have an upset stomach on holiday, isn't it?
Speaker 1:it's absolutely awful, it can ruin the holiday completely. Yeah, so I will take stuff that will handle if I've got diarrhea or something you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I mean that's what I love, is that kind of pre-workup to it as well. I was on holiday a long, long time ago and I got gastroenteritis and I didn't. That's so bad yeah. I didn't see the outside of my room for about four or five days.
Speaker 2:I lost an insane amount of weight At that point. I didn't lose anything at all, no, and was really weak for even like weeks afterwards. It was, yeah, it's nasty and just horrible and you feel really vulnerable. They had to get doctors out to me and all sorts of things. So the fact that you have sort of like pre-loaded yourself up to just minimize the chances, absolutely yeah, of that happening, because then there are also all sorts of things, and a friend of mine got really poorly in india and then she's remained lactose intolerant for the rest of her life yeah, I mean, you can pick up some really nasty things, and then I have a homeopathic first aid kit okay, take on holiday so it's got things in like if you get bitten, yeah, it's got cream that can take that sting away, calm the inflammation.
Speaker 1:I've got things like the little sugar pills that homeopathic medicine is probably most known for, nux vom. Say that again nux vom, the full word nux vomica oh lovely, is something you can use when you've overindulged, you've got an upset stomach. It works so well. And with children you can use it with children, really young. There's another remedy called arson elm, which is yeah, the words are great right which is brilliant for if you have food poisoning. So I will have a little kit of it's about six remedies that I take. Or there's a tube that's got calendula and something else in which I can't remember, which is specifically for bites and things like that, and I will always take that on holiday with me. What about your cauldron? Do you? Do you pack that as well?
Speaker 2:can't fit that in I love that, though I love the names of those, but it's great, is it? And the thing about these homeopathic remedies is that you are remedying against, like with bites and burns and those sort of things, like natural things. So why would they not work? Just why would you not use something that was nature-based against something nature did to you?
Speaker 1:exactly there's a really good remedy for sunburn, so we'll use that remedy, because it's so easy to get burnt on holiday, especially in that first day, isn't it? Yeah, even though you've put the sun cream on, you get so excited. You're in the sea a lot, or in the water especially the kids and then suddenly it's like, oh no, I've burnt myself. So I take the remedy and I always have aloe vera yeah proper, pure aloe vera for some burn afterwards. None of this, nivia.
Speaker 2:After some rubbish, proper aloe vera yeah, stick it in the fridge, freeze the life out of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it works so well and even better. In a lot of these places you go, they have aloe vera plants everywhere, yeah, so you can just snap a leaf off and get the gel out, yeah, and put that on.
Speaker 2:It works so much better than any of those, those sun care products that claim to be amazing yeah, no, I agree, we've got quite a lot of aloe vera plants in the house and the kids look at me as if I'm completely insane. When I go and snap a bit off it and just wipe it, they're like get off me and then, and then it's, everything's calmed down, like, oh, I know, okay, that was good, yeah, um is so important because again, when you're on holiday there is a temptation with, especially in an all-inclusive situation, that you just end up drinking the.
Speaker 1:You know they have a range of not just alcohol but sugary, fizzy drinks.
Speaker 2:Right, Just sugary yeah, absolutely, and you are hot, far hotter. Well, I say we're recording this on a really hot day today, but normally you are far hotter on holiday Maybe, and if you're not, if you're in somewhere that's colder, maybe you're doing an active holiday more than you would do normally. So hydrating with water is a great start, but also adding some electrolytes to it. And just because we were saying it, as we were recording how much more we sleep when we're on holiday, and that may well be one of the things if you're dehydrated, if you've not got enough electrolytes within your system, you're going to feel your energy is going to be really plummet. So being able to and you want to enjoy, joya, I know that you want to rest on holiday, but you also want to feel like you've had a rest and that you're energised, so hydration's a huge one.
Speaker 2:I think so important, and especially if you're drinking alcohol as well, you know you've got to put the water in so shattered, maybe during your holiday and definitely afterwards, is because you've stopped doing all of the things that you've discovered are really fantastic for you and that you've built into your daily life. We're going to just like throw that out the window and uh, all in the name of holiday and and so things like still doing some movement at some point you could do it in the morning perhaps. I mean, like is it idyllic?
Speaker 2:I mean, it's my idyllic start of a morning, is it, if everybody else is still asleep, that you go off, yeah, onto the balcony or if you've got a garden or if you're near the beach, to go off and and do a bit of pilates. I think pilates would be amazing. If you like yoga, some stretching, some walking or running, I know that, uh, my lovely friend jenny, wherever she goes, always takes her trainers and goes and runs by water, if she can do. She usually goes and finds the geese or they find her. She's always terrifying.
Speaker 2:And if you don't feel like I mean if you're like really, really hot, maybe you could do some breath work, maybe you could do some meditation. Just do something for you the same as you would do at home. Do something for you very first thing in the morning, get it done, feel amazing and just allow that to support you for the rest of the day I do like those um resorts that you go to and they have the morning yoga on the beach or somewhere where you can see something nice the palm trees or something and the one thing that I always do when I's sitting around the pool there's very few people I would just get my goggle.
Speaker 1:I take my goggles on holiday, yeah, and I just do my lengths in the pool and then take part in the activities or to volleyball or something.
Speaker 2:You know that kind of thing, yeah, I agree, and you have to do those things early, don't you? Otherwise the pool gets really really crowded. Yep, and try not to fall into that trap of oh, I'm on holiday, so I'm gonna sleep in late, and I mean, you know, occasionally do that, but the the change in your sleep pattern will also make you tired. I know it sounds crazy, because probably you've slept a little bit longer, but it almost gives you that jet lag feeling. Without the jet lag, if you're not roughly going to sleep and waking up about the same time and when you're saying about the morning yoga, if you want to go and do that again, it's really tempting to just lay in bed and go oh no, I'm on holiday, I don't want to get up. That is when the magical bits happen. Then you go and join in with these things that are slightly earlier in the morning and and again you feel like you've achieved something. You're like, yeah, I've just done that, and you're there with other people that are feeling the same thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I do like that feeling. Actually, when I was in Mexico a few years ago, I did Zumba every day around the pool without fail, and I absolutely loved it. And even now, if a certain song comes on, I was oh, it reminds me of doing zumba in mexico.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love that we did that in a in um france one year. I am. I am actually terrible at zumba. I nearly fell in the pool many, many times and the guy teaching it did it in a pair of budgie smugglers, which was always a bonus. But I did, I got up and it was hilarious and yeah, and I had fun.
Speaker 1:But you did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. And when we go camping to Yulee's down in Dorset, I think it is they have morning yoga and I just absolutely adored it.
Speaker 1:Yeah it, yeah, it's nice. You get a really nice feeling afterwards. There's a simple grounding habit that you can do is to bring one thing from home. So I, you know I'm a tea snob. We, we do know that I always take tea with me on holiday.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:Always take my tea bags. What tea do you take? Well, I do like PG Tips, yeah, and I do like there's another brand that's gone out of my head at the moment Clipper.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I like.
Speaker 1:Clipper's tea, but I will take my own tea bags and I've been known on many occasions to ask if I can make my own tea behind the counter at places, because they don't do it right?
Speaker 2:well, they don't, I bet. They bet they put the tea bag and the milk in before they put the hot water.
Speaker 1:I don't know what they do to it, but it's not right. So, yeah, I. But I am a tea snob and I really like my tea. So when I'm on holiday I have to have my nice cup of tea, and that's just non-negotiable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I quite like that, but I mean it. Like you said, it's like a grounding habit. So this could be. You could you could put this in with your morning meditation or a breath work or something as to then be able to just just sit there. Maybe you could do some gratitude practice or something. I mean, I love a coffee in the morning thankfully most, but like it's available in most places, they can the coffee's normally fine, honestly, it's the tea they can't do the tea in most places so I'm failing on the oat milk.
Speaker 2:Usually in in europe they kind of look at me as if I've grown another head.
Speaker 1:But yeah, not quite there. Yeah, no, yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, and that's. I love that little grounding thing. So, yeah, whatever it is that that you really like from home. Yeah, Just yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just nice.
Speaker 2:Take it with you and have that. Use it as a moment for yourself.
Speaker 1:And I always buy myself a brand new notebook before I go on holiday, because I don't know about you. But when I'm not busy doing all the things I normally do, I, when I'm sitting there by the pool or I'm walking along by the beach or whatever, and I'm really starting to um, you know, calm my system down, I come up with all the best ideas all the ideas, yeah, so I have to have a notebook, and I have, and it has to be new.
Speaker 1:I don't know why, but it has to be new. It's like completely fresh and I always take it with my special pen. Oh, I love that. I'm not allowed to buy any more notebooks.
Speaker 2:I've been banned.
Speaker 1:Apparently I have enough we'll take one of those when you go on holiday?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have. Those moments are when I am stretching after a class. That is when I have all the ideas.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I keep meaning actually to bring, because they're quite fleeting sometimes. I keep meaning to bring a maybe one of my journals, one of my many journals, down to the gym, because you forget otherwise, don't you?
Speaker 1:yeah, oh, my goodness me, that's such a great idea. And then you get back to and you, oh my goodness me, what was that?
Speaker 2:what was that idea?
Speaker 1:yeah, and it's just yeah, floats straight out of your head, yeah, and then I, and then typically, because I spend a lot of my time reading stuff that is connected to my work, when I go on holiday I will read something completely fiction. That's really like I can't put down. You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:I'll do that too that's exciting because I'm the same. You know there's a half a ton of health self-help books either on my on my kindle or on my bedside, and I do the same get some sort of novel. I'm going to borrow Anya's Song of Achilles, which was recommended to her years ago, and then I saw somebody else on Instagram that said they'd read it. So as long as there's room in my bag, it's coming with me.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's talk about food, because we don't want to, don't we? Don't want to be obsessive about it. When we're on holiday and we do want to have you know is a time to enjoy ourselves but we don't want to feel like sluggish and our digestive system isn't happy and oh my good, I shouldn't have done that I ate too much or whatever it was we don't want to feel we don't want to be a dustbin.
Speaker 1:So have the, the treat, yeah, but support your body, yeah, so you can do both together. So a few ideas is yeah, ice cream on holiday, it's nice right.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:Especially if you are in one of them, nice resorts, where you get all the selection of ice cream, mm-hmm but.
Speaker 1:But just make sure that you're having I, I typically will have that as a dessert rather than on its own in the afternoon, because if you have protein in your system and you've eaten the good stuff, when you put all that sugar in, it doesn't react in the same way. Yeah, so I will combine those two and say, oh, I want the treat. If I have it as part of my dessert, it's not going to have such an impact on my body.
Speaker 2:So having protein is really important yeah, because then you're not going like up and down with your blood sugars you know it's not sending it right up and then you'll come crashing down and you're searching for your next snack exactly, yeah, yeah, it's really important.
Speaker 1:And then I do like to drink a glass of wine when I'm on holiday. I admit it. Yeah, I do like my wine, but I will. I have this little like, almost like a little deal with myself that for every glass of wine, I drink two glasses of water. It's a good deal, yeah, yeah, because it's helping, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, absolutely. I was watching this clip on instagram uh, yesterday I think it was and it was talking about alcohol. And so for holiday, this is quite good that you tend to just drink slowly and spread it out. It's not like you just have it in the evening and you kind of binge like you might do on a saturday night, and that's much better, again with the water, much better to spread the amount of time that you're drinking this alcohol over, so it's got time to process it, rather than just throwing it all at your body in one go, yeah, and then it having to deal with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's, it's a good one. And then anything extra that you might be having always take a walk after dinner, because, again, the way that that helps support your digestive system, it helps to process things, how your body deals with blood sugars is different if you're moving after you've eaten and most places when you go on holiday it's a nice evening. You could literally do that even if you're just walking around your resort, because most of the time they're lovely, aren't they? Yeah?
Speaker 2:yeah, absolutely. And being able to incorporate these things in, so, like we've suggested about the hydration, perhaps the, the couple of glasses of water with the one glass of wine, being able to do the gratitude or the meditation, incorporating these in again like habits, like you would do when you were back at home, so that you don't then feel, for instance, you've got halfway through, maybe halfway through, your holiday, halfway through the day you're sluggish, your digestive system's kicking off, you're tired, and then you go right, I've got to do something about this. And then you go into that like restrictive mode, yeah, which no one wants to do on holiday, or you go into that full like oh, I don't know, I'm going to go to the gym or I'm going to suddenly go for a run or something, whereas if you just have it incorporated into your day-to-day activities and it just chugs along and helps you, you don't have to go like full commando on the running or the deprivation or whatever, exactly, yeah, and it becomes a mindset thing, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:So you know you don't need to earn your holiday or your food. No, it's not about that. You are allowed to rest and still be healthy. Yeah, because when you you put these things into place, when you come back from holiday, you feel so much better, yeah, than if you just have that sod it moment and you just go the complete opposite way. So the moment for an entire week, entire week or two, yeah, yeah, you know, and then come back and then be, oh my goodness, I've got to get back on my plan.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, just don't step off the plan. And we're not saying that you're, you know you're not able to enjoy your holiday. That's not what it's about. It's just being smart about it, isn't it? Yeah, so I think you're, you are allowed to enjoy the rest, but you can also be healthy, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2:I agree with that. And mindset is a big thing, isn't it? Because you feel like you're going to go one way or the other. You are either going to go right. I've starved myself for two weeks before.
Speaker 1:I've gone on holiday.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to have this sod it moment. I'm glad you said sod it, because for for me I am having to translate it in my head. I don't start off saying sod sorry, mum, yeah, and then you. And then you go like all guns blazing into the free-for-all buffet, yeah, yeah. And then you go back and come back again and go oh, that's it, I'm not eating anything for weeks.
Speaker 1:It's that all or nothing approach that we've said so many times doesn't work. So you know, if you have done that, then just reframe the situation. You've not blown it. You say I've enjoyed it, but now I'm supporting my body.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, please don't beat yourself up about it. And if there are moments of sod, it in the holiday, won't they then, yeah, and then like fully embrace them, yep, and just just enjoy it, because I mean, I don't know about you, but I don't go on holiday anywhere near as frequently as I would like to, um, so you do want to have that full enjoyment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, and the whole point of it should be a reset. But when we think about reset and we talk about resets, reset is often nourishing yourself, being kind to yourself, taking a rest, all of those things which you can do on holiday and still have the most amazing time and enjoy the food and everything that goes with it, and then just come back feeling rejuvenated, like you don't need another holiday, yeah yeah, I think that's that's the thing.
Speaker 1:So so, to recap, we are going to support our digestion, because it is the most vulnerable, I think, when we go on holiday. The stress leading up to it, the travel, the different water, the different food all of that stuff is going to add an extra burden onto our system and if we get problems there, it can really affect our enjoyment of our holiday. So we don't want to do that.
Speaker 1:Look after it, yeah so we're going to support our digestion and, like I said, I think it's really helpful to do some probiotics in the lead up to going away and then take them while you're there. It's so, it's so helpful. I can't tell you I've been doing this for years and it's so helpful drinking your water, hydration, use electrolytes if you need to, because that can really really be beneficial yeah, absolutely getting that movement in every single day.
Speaker 2:We're not. I'm not telling you to go down. Well, you could go down to the gym if there is one, but you're not. I actually think that would be the last place I'd want to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you wouldn't want to do that unless it's aircon you want to tailor it to with the enjoyment of the holiday. You know, if you are by the beach, then take the sailing boat out if you can, or things like that the paddleboard.
Speaker 2:Get the paddleboard out, yeah.
Speaker 1:Get some swimming in, yeah, and incorporate this movement into the fun and the enjoyment of the holiday I love it when you go places and they have like a bike ride out somewhere you know and you can. You can go and do that. I really like that nice and then a grounding habit, like for me it's my tea and my journal that I like to notebook. Brand new notebook that I like to take some people that might be.
Speaker 2:You might be able to kill two birds with one stone and you could do some morning exercise, could be like a daily walk that you would do at home and that could be your grounding habit, just the same as your routine at home.
Speaker 1:Yeah and then mindset is everything. So it's not about earning that food. Don't do that. I've starved myself and now I've earned that food. It's not about that you already deserve this holiday. You don't have to earn it exactly and you and you're allowed to enjoy your rest and still be healthy. So this is really what the message we're trying to get through, so hopefully that's helped. You're going on holiday. It's giving you some ideas. Yeah, we'd like to know where you've been.
Speaker 2:We'd like to see some holiday pictures in the far too fabulous facebook group. We can make julie jealous and she will get us back at the end of the year when she finally goes away.
Speaker 1:Yes, I will. I will okay, so make your holiday fabulous and we will see you on the next episode.
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