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Avoiding Holiday Diet Busters
According to some sources, we can put on as much as five pounds of body weight between Thanksgiving and the second day of January. When you add all of those hundreds of additional calories we consume each year at all those parties and all those family dinners together, they can add up to a lot of body weight.
There are a few little tricks that we can use, and a few little preventive measures that we can employ, to keep those sneaky calories from jumping on our bodies and busting our weight-loss diets.
Trick #1: At all of those holiday parties where binge eating is practically required, pile your plate up with the lower-calorie choices. There are almost always lower-calorie food choices on buffets and party tables. Choose the meat, but skip the gravy. Or, rather than higher-calorie meats, choose the shrimp or the lobster. Put lots of salad greens on your plate. They take up space on your plate AND in your tummy.
Trick #2: Use lower-calorie ingredients in your own holiday cooking. For example, make the cookies and other sweets using a sugar substitute, substitute applesauce for oil, etc. Many of those extra holiday calories are added right in our own kitchens.
Trick #3: Drink lots and lots of water. Water fills the tummy; there are no fat, carbs, or calories in it; and water is actually good for you. If you are full of water, you're much less likely to eat those diet-busting holiday goodies.
Trick #4: Control portion sizes of high-calorie holiday foods. You don't have to deprive yourself of all holiday treats. That could just make you grouchy! Just have one cookie rather than six. Have ONE cup of eggnog rather than half the bowl.
Trick #5: Choose your seating wisely. The farther you are seated from the buffet table or from the candy dish or from the plate of cookies, the easier it is to resist overeating.
BONUS : Bad, Bad Weight Loss Diets
First, understand that there's no such thing as "good" food or "bad" food. Any food that isn't poison and to which you aren't allergic is a good food. Diets, on the other hand, come in several varieties. There are good diets; bad diets; and bad, BAD diets.
The human body requires certain nutrients in order to function correctly. It needs vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that keep all of the parts clicking along and all of the pipes clear and in good working order. When the body is denied the needed nutrients, it first looks around to any of the missing elements that might be stored. If it finds none stored, it simply cannot supply the needed nutrient to the organs that need it, and the results aren't pretty.
A good weight loss diet provides healthy, nutritious foods that supply all of the body's needs while supplying fewer calories. Needed nutrients come from a diet that contains, protein, carbohydrates and fat — yes, fat. We need some fat — the good kind, however; not the bad kind.
A good weight loss diet is not a starvation diet. It's not a diet that leaves the dieter constantly hungry and unsatisfied. It's not a diet that consists of only one food, one or two foods, or a diet that leaves one food group completely out.
There are lots and lots of weight loss diets out there. You can't pick up a newspaper or a magazine, or turn on the TV, without seeing advertisements for one weight loss diet or another. There are a great many choices, and in order to choose wisely, you need information.
Good weight loss diets will include foods from all of the food groups. Granted, the portions allowed in some food groups might be much smaller than those allowed from other food groups. But a good diet also advocates exercise. There are two parts to weight loss. Eating fewer calories is one of them. The other one is burning more calories through exercise.
First, understand that there's no such thing as "good" food or "bad" food. Any food that isn't poison and to which you aren't allergic is a good food. Diets, on the other hand, come in several varieties. There are good diets; bad diets; and bad, BAD diets.
The human body requires certain nutrients in order to function correctly. It needs vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that keep all of the parts clicking along and all of the pipes clear and in good working order. When the body is denied the needed nutrients, it first looks around to any of the missing elements that might be stored. If it finds none stored, it simply cannot supply the needed nutrient to the organs that need it, and the results aren't pretty.
A good weight loss diet provides healthy, nutritious foods that supply all of the body's needs while supplying fewer calories. Needed nutrients come from a diet that contains, protein, carbohydrates and fat — yes, fat. We need some fat — the good kind, however; not the bad kind.
A good weight loss diet is not a starvation diet. It's not a diet that leaves the dieter constantly hungry and unsatisfied. It's not a diet that consists of only one food, one or two foods, or a diet that leaves one food group completely out.
There are lots and lots of weight loss diets out there. You can't pick up a newspaper or a magazine, or turn on the TV, without seeing advertisements for one weight loss diet or another. There are a great many choices, and in order to choose wisely, you need information.
Good weight loss diets will include foods from all of the food groups. Granted, the portions allowed in some food groups might be much smaller than those allowed from other food groups. But a good diet also advocates exercise. There are two parts to weight loss. Eating fewer calories is one of them. The other one is burning more calories through exercise.
