With cruises tending to have an endless array of incredible food to gorge on from decadent deserts to the midnight buffet, you may worry about your waistline. You’re on vacation and it can be fun to indulge! Use these simple cruise hacks to disembark and not be ten pounds heavier.
6) Why Weighing Yourself on Day 1 May Give You an Excuse to Gorge
Yes, really. Just do it. You can always find a scale in the ship’s gym. Go there to weigh yourself even if you have no intentions of using the gym during the rest of your voyage. Weigh yourself as soon as you get onboard so you can keep tabs on your weight gain during the cruise, particularly if it’s a longer itinerary. Then weigh yourself periodically throughout the cruise and you may actually find that you’re not packing on the pounds as much as you feared, giving you a well-deserved excuse to have a day of gluttony.
7) No Need for the Gym When You Can Use Stairs!
You’re on vacation. There’s no need to spend it at the gym unless you really love a good gym workout. Instead, simply hold firm on always using the stairs. Most large cruise ships have a minimum of 10 passenger floors (often more). Set a rule to never use the elevator and you’ll end up burning lots of calories simply by trying to get from one place to another on these megaships. Often you’ll get there faster too, particularly if your cruise ship has many elderly passengers or kids who like to press buttons.
If your cabin happens to be on the bottom floor, simply taking the stairs up and down to the lido deck for lunch will burn approximately 100 calories. based on the estimate of 5 calories burned per flight of stairs. Considering that you’ll likely be making multiple trips up and down the ship’s stairs throughout the day, you can realistically burn several hundred calories without even trying! So go ahead and get the chocolate lava cake!
8) Have Bread WITH Your Meal, Not Before
A lovely basket of bread is always immediately delivered to your table upon getting seated for dinner. It’s so easy to butter those rolls and load up on these carbs before your appetizer has even hit the linin. You may even find yourself too full to finish whatever delicious entrée you’ve picked out. So instead, make a special request for your sever to only bring out the bread basket when your main course is served. Remove that carbtastic temptation from the table prior to your main course. If you’re still hungry while eating your meal, go ahead and have some bread. You won’t gorge yourself with this filler as you would have prior to your meal’s arrival. Save your appetite for the main event and forgo the seduction of all of those unnecessary carbs.