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Your Sure-Fire Guide To Eating During The Holidays |
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Robert William Locke |
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Your Sure-Fire Guide To Eating During The Holidays
Robert William Locke
How can you resist overeating ? The holiday season is upon us and temptation is everywhere! All those invitations to dinners and buffets - it is enough to despair. Read the article and find out some ways to save your figure and your sanity!
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!
When you are invited to dinner or to a reception with a buffet, start before you go out. No, I do not mean eating ,well, apart from a handful of nuts! These have lots of fibre and that will help to make you feel full and less ravenous. A great idea is to drink a glass or even two of water -water has zero calories and helps to make you feel full.
You are seated at the table. Alcohol is flowing like a river in full flood! Your host is generous and your glass is always full. What I do in these situations is stick to one glass and alternate wine with water- so one glass of wine followed by one glass of water and so on. I also try to make sure that nobody will fill my wine glass right up to the top. You can cut your alcohol consumption by at least half !
Buffet grazing is notorious for ruining people's waistlines. Taking very small helpings of things and not piling your plate high helps. Finding a seat at a good distance from the table of temptation is also sound advice. Better again, talk to someone you have not met for a long time - the conversation becomes first place instead of the food.
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.
When it comes to sweets and desserts, temptation is even stronger as the pies are scrumptious. Well, pecan pie with whipped full fat cream will fill me up with 700 calories ! A healthy alternative is pumpkin pie and forget the cream. Forget the doggy bags - it is just prolonging the temptation.
After all the holidays are over, the average American will have put on 5 pounds but if you follow my advice above, you will not be one of them !
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