Survive Holiday Eating with this Advice

By Vito La Fata


During the holidays, you may find it hard to eat well and stay in control when the festive food is all around you. Unfortunately, if you indulge too much, you will gain weight. Excess calories in food and drink will sabotage your quest for being healthy and fit. Use these holiday eating tips to stay on track this holiday season.

It is not necessary to deprive yourself over the holiday season, but it is important to exercise some self-control and learn to resist overdoing it. Do not make the mistake of deciding to starve yourself after the holidays in order to overeat now. That plan will not work.

Do eat less for the 3 to 5 days leading up to a holiday event or party. When the event takes place, you will look and feel better than you originally expected and you will feel less guilty when you enjoy yourself at the celebration.

Do wear your skinny jeans. When you look and feel slim you will eat less. Do not drink wine or beer. Go for hard alcohol if you must have something. Why? Because you can nurse a hard drink all night, but with wine and beer there's a higher chance you will want another. Do position yourself as far away from the appetizer table as possible.

Do not sit in front of the TV. Get up and socialize! If you really want to watch TV then do it standing up. Do bring your own dish to the occasion. Nobody has to know that it is healthy or low calorie but at least you will know how many calories it has and you will have something to snack on.

Do send people home with food if you are hosting a party. Do sit at the table as far from the unhealthy food options as possible. If you have to keep standing up, putting your drink down and reaching across someone to grab a piece of bread you're not going to have as many pieces as if it was right in front of you.




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