1 Important Tip To Avoid Weight Gain During the Holidays
The holiday season offers us wonderful party food, homemade goodies and an abundance of junk food. Most of us end up gaining weight during the holidays, and then they have to spend the entire New Year struggling to lose those extra pounds.
If you are someone who wants to remain fit and healthy during and after the holidays, this article is for you.
Believe it or not, by following certain simple steps, it is possible to ensure that you don’t put on extra pounds like others during the holiday season.
One of the most important tips that you can remember this holiday season is to avoid alcohol altogether or at least reduce its intake by a drastic level.
Do you know that if you consume just one ounce of alcohol, you have consumed about 64 useless calories? The calories that your body receives from alcohol have no real, nutritional value; if anything, they make you fatter.
You must remember that it’s not just the calories from alcohol that is the problem, but when you drink even just 1 drink your resistance is lowered and your more apt to eat a lot more.
To ensure that we mix well within our social circle of friends, some of us tend to drink alcohol during the holiday season even if we don’t drink otherwise. Drinking loads of alcohol might make your friends happy, but you will feel sorry when you acquire a huge potbelly as a result of that!
For the regular party hoppers, holidays give them just another reason to step up to the bar. Be it at get-togethers, Christmas parties, Christmas dinner, not to forget the New Year party, drinks flow in plenty, and people don’t seem to exercise any self-control, whatsoever.
However if you want, you CAN enjoy the holidays without all that alcohol.
When at a party, you can ask for low-calorie drinks, or even better, non-alcoholic drinks. Some may shy away from only drinking water, though if you are very health-conscious, that is probably all that you should drink at Christmas parties.
When it comes to drinking wine, you can mix your drink with low-calorie or sugar-free varieties of soft drinks so as to reduce your total calorie intake. These drinks are often called spritzers, since there is just a spritz of wine.
If you are drinking, have every other drink, just have calorie free soda or pure water. This will stretch the amount of time that you have a glass in your hand and will also make you less tempted to snack on everything in sight. Having a glass of sugar free soda looks just like it alcoholic counterpart and no one but you and the host or hostess will know.
When you do have an alcoholic drink be sure to have plenty of ice and soda in your glass before adding alcohol. Don’t add the alcohol first as you will probably make the drink too strong.
If you are a party where you can mix your own drinks - that’s better yet.
As the party goes on many get use to the taste of their drinks and have a tendency to make them stronger. This is not only a bad thing if you are driving (as you should never, ever drink and drive) but you will also pack on more calories. So be sure to measure the alcohol and if anything make your drinks weaker as the night goes on.
You can also cut down on your food intake (without of course skipping breakfast, lunch or dinner) to make sure that you don’t consume more than your total daily calorie limit; if you can do that, then that would further ensure that you remain fit throughout the Christmas season.
Last but not the last, exercising self-control is important. No matter what your friends tell you, you know what you should drink and how much, right? Drink moderately, and everything else will fall in place!
