How not to spoil the figure for the New Year holidays?

We are all look­ing for­ward to the New Year hol­i­days to meet with fam­i­ly and friends, throw a noisy par­ty, and cel­e­brate the New Year prop­er­ly! And as expect­ed, of course, on the table there should be a tra­di­tion­al Russ­ian sal­ad, baked chick­en with apples, a fur coat and grand­moth­er’s com­pote. Noth­ing with­out it 🙂

But each of us, at least once, but angry with our­selves after the end of the hol­i­days because we gained weight!

Sur­viv­ing the New Year hol­i­days and not gain­ing weight is a rather dif­fi­cult task, and even with an aster­isk, but it is quite pos­si­ble to cope with it. The main thing is to take into account a few sim­ple rules, thanks to which you will be able to pass all the tests for the will with dig­ni­ty, and your fig­ure will not suf­fer a bit!

If you are at a party

Danger:

An abun­dance of var­i­ous snacks: hot dish­es and high-calo­rie desserts

1. Sit on the edge of the table, but not in the middle

Once you are in the cen­ter of the table, it will be very dif­fi­cult to resist the var­i­ous dish­es. If you set­tle down at the oth­er end of the hall, you will sim­ply be too lazy to go to the cen­ter for the main meal. How­ev­er, you can not sit all the time at the table, but move between col­leagues and friends. After all, snacks and alco­hol should not be a rea­son to get togeth­er, but a pleas­ant addi­tion to com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

2. Choose one dish

Many are accus­tomed to think­ing that if you try every­thing a lit­tle bit, then you will not eat too much. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, this is an illu­sion. You can treat your­self to some­thing very tasty and high-calo­rie — but choose only one dish. Most peo­ple skip lunch before cor­po­rate par­ties in order to fill up with might and main in the evening.

Nutri­tion­ists note that this approach is very wrong and you should def­i­nite­ly eat at lunch. And all because a long break between meals exac­er­bates the feel­ing of hunger. In the end, you eat much more than on a typ­i­cal week­day for lunch and din­ner.

3. Drink wisely

We, of course, will not open Amer­i­ca to you, but once again we will remind you of this any­way! 🙂

Strong drinks con­tain much more calo­ries than low-alco­hol ones. Give pref­er­ence only to dry white wine, which has only 70 kcal.

Cock­tails, espe­cial­ly sweet ones, are very dan­ger­ous for the fig­ure, because they con­tain var­i­ous syrups and liquors, and these are just those very fast car­bo­hy­drates.

The con­ve­nience of dry white wine is that it can be stretched out for the whole evening, sip­ping in small sips. We still rec­om­mend not to allow gal­lant men to pour you a drink into a glass that has not yet been drunk, because then it is very easy to lose count and lose con­trol not only over calo­ries, but also over behav­ior.

If you are in the mall

Danger:

All around you are fast foods.

1. Don’t go to the mall hungry.

This rule should be your num­ber one pri­or­i­ty. Like a fad or a prin­ci­ple! Oth­er­wise, you risk being at the mer­cy of a burg­er or shawar­ma. The best experts in the fast food world are work­ing to make you lose your head from the smell of piz­za, fried chick­en and ham­burg­er. Only sati­ety can resist them!

Many nutri­tion­ists advise eat­ing a hearty meal before going shop­ping, and even if the food court can dis­tract you from shop­ping, you can drink nat­ur­al cof­fee — it will reduce your appetite. You can add milk to it, but in no case cream or sweet syrups.

2. Take something to eat with you.

Shop­ping before the New Year hol­i­days is always a spe­cial process. How­ev­er, no mat­ter how much we like it, often shop­ping can take sev­er­al hours, or even a whole day. As a result, you have to eat fast food, and even if you are for a healthy lifestyle.

To avoid this, you need to take apples or bananas, drink­ing yogurt or bread with you. And also try not to leave shop­ping until the last moment: if you spend the whole day in the mall, you won’t be able to get rid of apples and yogurt alone.

3. Chew gum

This process will allow you to proud­ly refuse sweets. In addi­tion, accord­ing to the results of the study, mint chew­ing gum has been shown to slight­ly sup­press appetite.

Away at the festive table

Danger:

An abun­dance of deli­cious food.

1. Bring your own 🙂

Of course, you should not bring duck with apples or sweet home­made cook­ies, which will be in bulk on the table any­way. Pre­pare a sal­ad or a light dessert at home. Thus, you will kill three birds with one stone: you will not come emp­ty-hand­ed, you will please the host­ess, who is already exhaust­ed with cook­ing, and most impor­tant­ly, you will be able to eat what she per­son­al­ly pre­pared from the most use­ful ingre­di­ents.

2. Start your meal with salads

Sand­wich­es with caviar, smoked meats, sauces, spices — appe­tiz­ers that whet the appetite. After you start with them, every­thing will end with hot and desserts. It is best to start with veg­eta­bles: cucum­bers, toma­toes, egg­plant or cab­bage. How­ev­er, these veg­eta­bles should not be canned because they are high in salt, which means you may expe­ri­ence flu­id reten­tion and swelling.

3. Control the amount eaten.

Have you been wait­ing for this moment for so long to final­ly treat your­self to some­thing deli­cious at the New Year’s table? Don’t deny your­self the plea­sure! You can lose your head with joy. True, your land­mark: palm. Eat as many snacks as you can fit in it. And also set aside large plates away from you, eat only from small ones. Accord­ing to the results of the study, a per­son eats less from a small plate.

When you come home from the cold

Danger:

Fat­ty, high-calo­rie food with which you want to warm up.

1. Drink plenty of water

Due to the fact that in win­ter we wear warm clothes, we sweat more and the body los­es mois­ture. In addi­tion, in the heat, we usu­al­ly drink more water, and in win­ter we for­get about it. Thus it is very easy to con­fuse thirst with hunger.

Nutri­tion­ists advise warm­ing up with hot drinks: tea, cocoa or mulled wine made with juice.

2. Physical activity

Cold makes us think about food. How­ev­er, you can warm up in anoth­er way — phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion.

A few exer­cis­es on the legs, abs, but­tocks or light clean­ing in the apart­ment will serve as an excel­lent alter­na­tive to the process of eat­ing food.

3. Warm up with the right food

If you just came home and just at lunch or din­ner, the best “warm­ing” will be soup — meat or fish. You can also eat jel­lied meat and fat­ty fish with a light sal­ad for gar­nish.

Hap­py hol­i­days to you! 🙂