Avoid Overeating During The Holiday Season

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Avoid Overeating During The Holiday Season
By. Robert William Locke

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!

Next, you are invited out. You will be tempted to graze too long at the buffet. First tip is to drink at least a glass of water an hour before you go out. Water has zero calories and will help to make you feel full, so you will eat less. You can also eat a handful of nuts - the fibre in these are going to make you feel less hungry.

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 !

If I am buffet grazing, I always try to take very small helpings and then find a seat and preferably away from that tempting table! I try to find someone who I know and I will have to tell him/her a lot of things. Takes my mind off my food. The whole process of going to get second helpings is going to make me think twice about it.

Stuffing and gravy tend to be rich in calories as indeed are bacon, ham and sausages. Much better to stock up with cranberry sauce - cranberries have great antioxidant properties. I feel less guilty if I can pile my plate high with green vegetables, hoping that somebody has remembered us diet obsessed people by bringing a plentiful supply. Basic rule is to sip wine and eat slowly, if you can.

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.

This advice will help you NOT to be part of the statistics which will come out in the New Year. The average American, if there is such a thing, will have put on FIVE pounds over the holiday season !

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