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your health matters Form & FuNctioN Don’t Take A Vacation From Nutrition What’s the point of all your hard work if you can’t let loose and ﬂaunt it in Puerto Vallarta or Fort Lauderdale? Look good and drink your martini too! Follow a few simple rules and you might actually come home looking leaner than before. EAT TO YOUR BASAL METABOLIC RATE (BMR) This is easy to ﬁnd online, and should be your most important guide in enjoying your vacation without taking a few giant—and detrimental—steps back in your physique. Your BMR is the number of calories you’d burn if you didn’t lift a ﬁnger all day. If you eat to your BMR, the extra calories you consume in alcohol won’t affect you as much, and the lack of workout effect will be minimal. Get your BMR calculator on the Web at http://health.discovery. com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html. EAT SMALL MEALS AND ONLY WHEN YOU’RE HUNGRY Going on vacation isn’t about stufﬁng yourself, it’s about enjoying the good food you encounter, and the company you encounter it with. Sample the local fare, but do just that—sample. This will allow you to try a variety of foods throughout the day. If you’re not hungry enough for a meal, get an appetizer, or just a drink. Eating small meals with more frequency will also help keep your metabolism spiked when you’re lying by the pool or on the beach. BRING SNACKS FROM HOME Tattoo this on your forehead—airport food is evil! Food in the airport is puffed up with simple starches, portioned low on protein, and loaded with hidden calories like sauces and cheeses. Go old school and pack one or two small salads or veggie-ﬁlled brown rice bowls to munch on during a long trip across or out of the country. As for the rest of your trip, bring some protein bars, fruit and string cheese for some 100- to 200-calorie snacks to nibble in the hotel. Munch on these instead of ordering a whole meal, or eating a naughty, not-worth-it snack. Save the calories for good meals and delicacies. If you’re not working out like you do at home, you probably won’t be as hungry anyway. madelyn Fairbanks trains and teaches group exercise in seattle. she owns mad abs Fitness, www.madabsFitness.com. mario BruNo Photo creDit: P ER SON OF TH E Vik Livingston Assistant Sales Manager vlivingston@downtownharley.com 13001 48th Ave S. Tukwila, WA 98168 (800) 474-HOGS T: 206-243-5000 F: 206-241-4918 22 celebrating seattle’s gay community YE AR SA LE S http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html http://www.madabsFitness.com http://www.seattlehomesontherun.com http://downtownhd.com/Default.asp

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'MO - August 2008 Contents Letter From The Editor Voices Coors Joins the Fight to Erase Hate Pet Project ’mo-BIZ: Ajaxx63 Northern Xposure Returns Lambert House Offers Youth Support Beijing, China The 2008 Gay Softball World Series in Seattle Form & Function: Vacation Nutrition An Account of the STP Bicycle Classic Book Review: Family Outing by Troy Johnson Capitol Hill Guide Live Event Review: Teatro ZinZanni’s Quest for a Queendom SceneOut: People@Places

'MO - August 2008

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