Anyone who has finally started feeling good again and reached their target weight in recent weeks and months thanks to a healthy diet and plenty of exercise looks forward to the Advent season with its mulled wine, cookies, and the like with great skepticism.
We are all too familiar with the delicious calorie bombs that now lurk around every corner, at the company Christmas party, at the Christmas market, and even at home in the form of homemade cookies, waiting for those trying to lose weight. And it is hard to politely decline after just one vanilla crescent cookie. And then it turns into three cinnamon stars and two gingerbread cookies, and suddenly the scale is tipping dangerously high again. Although, nobody gets fat between Christmas and New Year's! You gain those love handles and extra pounds during the rest of the year, between New Year's and Christmas. But how do you get through the pre-Christmas season and the holidays without gaining weight?
10 strategies to avoid gaining weight over the holidays
The cookie plate on the table is always well-stocked, and the menus at Christmas and New Year's are anything but low-calorie diet food. You are allowed to help yourself heartily during the holidays and really feast for once. It just always depends on the amount! And on the right holiday strategy! 10 tips to help you stay slim, even when the honey gingerbread is so tempting:
- Take small portions and stop when you are full!
- Better to catch up on sleep than to constantly snack away!
- Cool down – do not overheat the apartment, because the body needs more energy to heat itself that way.
- Eating by candlelight makes you fat! Sometimes less romance is actually more!
- Fish is not only healthy at Christmas, but also very low in fat!
- Good tea made from natural ingredients replaces many a vanilla crescent cookie.
- Drinking plenty of fluids is even more important now, but more water than red wine!
- It is best to keep sweet temptations out of sight and only reach for Linzer cookies and rum balls very consciously!
- A walk after eating awakens the spirits!
- Couch potatoes should pick up a feather duster between the holidays, because cleaning burns calories and has the nice side effect of a clean apartment!
That way, your bikini figure will also make it safely into the New Year!
The fat traps around Christmas and New Year's are lurking everywhere! But the diet successes of recent times were worked for too hard! The homemade cookies can't be so good that you ruin your ideal figure with them. So, anyone who helps themselves heartily at the festive meal is giving new fuel to the fat cells that were just emptied! And the feasting immediately shows on the scale. Christmas is only once a year, but Christmas is not just defined by food. The time spent together with your partner, children, and family is what matters most! And even if there is a little more and something special on the table during the holidays, every bite should be a pleasure! Then there is still room for one or two cookies without your pants feeling tight again immediately.
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