I'm sure you know that feeling well, where you are so excited to travel across timezones on your destination holiday or to visit family and friends, yet you get to bed that night and cannot sleep. Either that or you're awake at some crazy A.M. hour wide awake ready to start the day.

I cross timezone on many occasions each year visiting loved ones and have experienced the dreaded jet-lag too many times, which has led me to research this topic and our biology in more depth. I have put together 5 practical strategies that I now implement every time I fly, to ensure I gain a restful quality sleep and have the energy onboard for a fabulous trip. These strategies have improved my ability to switch into a new timezone faster and more efficiently than ever before.

This is a common question and I too had this same query many years ago. We all intuitively know that drinking alcohol can be a barrier to losing weight and it can be a large contributor to weight gain. Many wonder why this is exactly and how much they can drink while trying to lose weight.

Alcoholic drinks contain empty calories and have no benefit to your body. They contain zero nutrition, therefore your body cannot store it and it must be metabolised straight away. Your body goes through a process of oxidation, detoxification and prioritises metabolising alcohol, over other metabolic processes.

After your first alcoholic drink, your body starts to process and send the alcohol to your liver. The body recognises these by-products as toxins and will try to burn and eliminate them out of your system. While doing so, fat-burning is switched off.

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This is a common question and I too had this same query many years ago. We all intuitively know that drinking alcohol can be a barrier to losing weight and it can be a large contributor to weight gain. Many wonder why this is exactly and how much they can drink while trying to lose weight.