How to Eat During Holidays

Holidays are merry times when you usually have fun with friends and family, eat a lot of food, drink wine and delay any weight loss thoughts and goals to the future. However, you now understand the principles of healthy eating, worked hard on your eating habits, spent much time exercising, like your slimming results and do not want to be derailed from achieving your goals. How to eat during the holiday season, have fun with friends and family and still not gain much weight?

Conscious eating is not about limiting yourself, missing parties or looking like a black sheep when you are in a company of friends and family. Conscious eating is a choice of the best option for you in any given situation - at a party, in a restaurant, during long evening with your family. 

Do not punish yourself if you eat something that is not very healthy, like sweets or ice-cream. Holidays do not happen every week! Eating right and exercising during ordinary days is more important than limiting yourself during the holidays.

Follow these rules during holidays:

1. Remember that your goal is to enjoy yourself and your food. Choose meals that are not present in your regular ration. It does not make much sense to eat the same food that you usually eat. Still, try to keep your portion size small (300 mL).

2. Eat as you always do (small portions and often) before the big dinner or party - do not starve yourself in anticipation of a big dinner. That way you would not be hungry when the celebration starts and would not overeat.

3. Have at least 15 min intervals between your food and drinks.

4. Eat slowly. If you are sitting at the table for 2-3 hours, it is better to eat slowly, so you achieve saturation with less food.

5. Do not sit at the table all the time. Talk to people, show them (or ask them to show you) some interesting things (garden, photo albums, collections), be active.

6. Do not forget about balanced healthy eating - eat vegetables, not only proteins.

7. If there are many different types of proteins on the table, wait 1-2 hours before trying a different kind.

8. Drink water. Do not drink sweet drinks. Rotate water and alcohol.

These rules will help you during any holiday and you will you get the slim body you have always wanted.