Holiday Eating Without the Guilt — or the Pounds
If you love the five-week holiday festivities from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, but are already stressing about the added stomach fat you’ll have to sweat off come Jan. 1, help is at hand. It’s possible to enjoy holiday eating and make it to 2010 weighing the same as you do today. It’s all about devising a strategy and thinking about holiday food just a little differently. Try this:
Eat before you go. Starving guests are more apt to load up their plates, so have a piece of fruit smeared with peanut butter or a small container of yogurt prior to heading out.
Think ”pick and choose,” not ‘’sample.” Picking and choosing is a great strategy if it involves picking the one dessert or other goodie you love and can’t live without. Instead of sampling all three pies at a holiday dinner, decide which one you really like.
Remember, alcohol is loaded with calories. Start off at a party with seltzer water or sparkling water, then switch to alcoholic beverages.
Take control as hostess. Take advantage of that, prepare or serve [ready-make] broth-based soups that are packed with vegetables as a first course. Switch from buffets to meals served by the course to pace eating. It’s probable you’ll eat less overall that way.
If you love gravy, make it from fat-free broth. Include more casserole dishes — you can increase the vegetables with hardly anyone noticing.
Move, even a little. Squeezing in a little exercise, no matter how hectic the schedule, will help.
Defend your resolve. Even with the best strategies in play, some people fall apart when face-to-face with those holiday hosts and hostesses who encourage you to eat.
You can resist them with a compliment like: “I love your pie, but I am full.”
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