Tips To Avoid Overeating During The Holiday Season

Temptation is rearing its ugly head again - it sure enjoys the holiday season in tempting us to eat far too much and too many of the wrong things. Here is some advice on not going overboard.

Firrst of all, when shopping for food, you should try to avoid your local 7-11 convenience store as the range of healthy foods there is not great. Much better at your grocery store and the supermarket. A new study just out tells us that we should be aiming at NINE portions of fruit and vegetables a day instead of the old FIVE. Poorer Americans will rightly ignore this piece of advice as it would mean that they would have to spend more than 70% of their total food budget just to buy all the fruit and vegetables!

So, you are invited to dinner. Start before you go out. You can drink a glass or two of water (zero calories and do not wory about water retention). You will feel a little full and you can also eat a handful of nuts - the fibre in these will make you feel full and you are going to eat less.

Now you are at dinner. Wine and food are flowing - it seems that a war is going to start and there will be rationing soon ! As regards alcohol, I try to have a glass of wine and then follow it with a glass of water - by doing this I can cut my alcohol consumption by 50%. When getting my wine glass replenished I try to stop my host from filling it - the less the better in this case.

Buffet grazing is great fun and disastrous for your waistline. I try to take small helpings and leave the table and find a seat as far away as I can. I try to engage somebody in conversation and this helps me give less attention to my food . Once I am so far away, this is going to discourage me from getting too many second helpings.

I always go very easy on stuffing and gravy - just a little sample to remind me what they taste like. Also try to fill up on cranberry sauce - cranberries are great antioxidants. I will also try to fill up on green vegetables - hoping that some health conscious person has thought about us diet obsessed humanoids! Sipping my wine and eating slowly is another great way to reduce my raging hunger pangs.

Sweets and desserts tend to be even more tempting especially if you have a sweet tooth. Just look at the amount of calories in a piece of pecan pie with full fat whipped cream - 700 ! That is half your daily amount of calories. A piece of pumpkin pie with no cream is a much better solution. Don't bother with doggy bags - they will prolong the agony !

The average American is about to put on FIVE more pounds over the holiday season from now until New Years. Try and follow my advice and don't be one of them !

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