If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed . Thanks for visiting! So the Christmas season is upon us and it is inevitable that of you have any sort of life you will stray from the path of health and fitness and partake in some nights out, excess alcohol, grazing on chocolate and of course eating that massive dinner on christmas day The point of this post is not to give you alternatives (you know you shouldn't be doing it) but to assume that you are going to blow out and how you can "bulletproof" your body against excess fat gain over the festive season 1. Pre-Blowout workout Before you eat a massive meal or go on a big night out.  Do an intense 4 minute workout.  Something like below is fantastic This ups your metabolic rate for hours after and will prevent your body taking up the heavy food 2. Intermittent fasting Not as scary as it sound, all it means is that you take in calories for only 8 hours of the day and fast for the other 16 hours, so if you were going out a lot in one week, maybe you'd take onboard calories between 3pm and 11pm and fasr the rest of the time, use carefully. and drink loads of water and green tea,  Also take a BCAA supplement when fasting to prevent muscle breakdown, you can get a good one from here USN BCAA Syntho Stack Muscle Support and