Hey, here’s the foie gras. Hop! we open a new bottle of white. And by the way, there’s still some cake left. The refrain is known, and returns once a year, between Christmas and New Year for many French people. Copious, fatty meals, often synonymous with extra pounds when leaving the tunnel of family reunions. Nothing really problematic basically. But a little more worrying for those whose bodies are particularly stressed in this Olympic year, with the Paris Olympics in the crosshairs.
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But Olympic deadline or not, greedy escapades during the holidays are a known phenomenon among athletes. “Some will return home very motivated to try to reduce their body fat,” describes Véronique Rousseau, dietician and sports nutritionist at Insep. We are not going to break the athlete’s momentum, but we are going to tell him that this is not the most favorable period to set objectives which will have the risk of not being achieved. Some people arrive at the beginning of January for consultation saying that they have abused it, we reassure them. »
