How To Keep Off Holiday Weight

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How To Keep Off Holiday Weight

How To Keep Off Holiday Weight

How To Keep Off Holiday Weight - I have been wondering how to avoid holiday overeating and keep off the weight a lot recently and preparing myself for the oncoming barrage of excuses to stuff my face. I’m in New York right now and Christmas spirit is trying to break my belly. Today I ate big at lunch but cooled for the evening.

With todays one win under my belt, not over it thankfully, I think my holiday eating restraint is strengthened. I still ate some great food but did not over eat and have won’t be waking up feeling bloated and unhappy.

How To Keep Off Holiday Weight: My tips on how to avoid holiday overeating

Like everything the most important thing to get right is your mindset. You need to know yourself why you don’t want to overeat. The holiday is not a time to diet and it will be over in a few weeks but it is a time to still watch out for your general health and make sure as much as possible that you don’t pile any weight on. That will just make any weight loss goals after the holiday that much harder.

You need to give yourself a goals, keeping a stable weight, never feeling bloated, only having one plate of food, these kinds of things. You should aim to keep a strict healthy diet for the days you are at home to help offset some of the days when you may have a little more wine or less healthy food than normal.

The mindset thing is just all about knowing what you want and genuinely meaning it to yourself. You can fool others but you can’t fool yourself and that is why you need some level of commitment.

The idea here is to not lose the enjoyment of the holidays. You should eat all the nice food on offer but just eat little bits of everything and only take larger portions of the healthiest options and just eat small deserts.

Keep your alcohol consumption to a reasonable level. Getting drunk is the quickest way to allowing your goals to falter and you may end up pigging out. Plus alcohol, especially beer, is high in sugar and quite high in calories.

Chances are a lot of your friends want to keep their eating down this year too. Talking with each other and holding each other accountable (in a nice friendly way) could help you keep to the plan and stick on target.

It’s important to keep up exercise over the holidays. This will help balance out any overeating you do do as you will need more food for energy as it is. But also keeping an exercise routine helps with your other goals and gives you other aspects of your health to think about making it a more complete package in your mind.

How To Keep Off Holiday Weight On The big day!

When Christmas day comes (or any other major holiday day) I am going to differ on other people’s opinion here. I think you should wake up, eat some fruit, maybe a little yoghurt and then turn off the goals. Make it a one of, a day where you eat what you want, when you want. Sure still be careful with portions as you don’t want to be too full to eat some Christmas pudding and brandy sauce! The point is having one day of guilt free pleasure may be enough to keep the holiday sensible eating train on the tracks. I think It would be damn near impossible for you to put on more than say 1 pound of weight in a day (roughly 2500-3000 calories) and that can be quickly remedied by cutting an extra 300 calories from your day for the next 10 days. If you drink coffee with milk then it could be as simple as only drinking water for 10 days. If you have managed to be sensible and not put on any other weight over the holidays then it is more than achievable.

Good luck and send some my way too. - How To Keep Off Holiday Weight

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12 Responses to “How To Keep Off Holiday Weight”

  1. Car Negotiation Coach

    14. Dec, 2010

    Forest, I need to figure out how to stop overeating in general! I love food too much!
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    • Forest

      16. Dec, 2010

      Ha ha. Well Car Neg Coach it’s generally a state of mind thing in my experience. A little bit of nice food is still nice.

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  2. retirebyforty

    14. Dec, 2010

    I completely agree with you. I think it’s completely ok to overeat on the holidays. It’s the day to day that you need to worry about. I heard a story on public radio that the body resist sudden weight change. So if you eat a lot in one day it doesn’t really effect your weight all that much. If you eat a bit extra calories everyday, that’s the problem.
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  3. youngandthrifty

    16. Dec, 2010

    Great ideas :)
    I’ve been trying to lose a lb or two, and it’s been hard with all the treats (chocolates, cookies etc) that have been tempting me at the office (and I usually succumb to that temptation, sadly enough).

    I make it a point to increase my actiivity by running or doing some yoga to compensate.

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    • Forest

      16. Dec, 2010

      Yeah it is a hard time of year but a great time of year to get some extra workouts in too.

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  4. Squirrelers

    17. Dec, 2010

    What’s funny is that I’m choosing this time of year – specifically TODAY – as my line in the sand, so to speak. I want to get the ball rolling on the new year’s health resolutions. I figure that the food onslaught will be a good test of my mettle.

    Also, good point on excercise. Keeping that up, or even stepping up further, can help counteract some of the “losses” this time of year.
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    • Forest

      19. Dec, 2010

      Hey Squirrelers, a tough time to start up and I wish you the best of luck but I am sure you can do it.

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  5. Financial Samurai

    18. Dec, 2010

    It is clearly IMPOSSIBLE not to overheat! OMGosh… I gorged myself this week. Just got back from 3 hours at the gym, and probably need to go 10 hours more!
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    • Forest

      19. Dec, 2010

      Ha ha Sam, I guess that means you have made up your mind but at least you are countering with extra gym work.

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