What to do if you tend to eat too much and gain weight during the holidays? Here are some simple tips

As the saying goes, every festive season makes you gain three pounds.

During the holidays, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of delicious food and family and friends gathering together. Not only will the opportunities to go to the gym and the playground be greatly reduced, but sitting down and chatting with family and friends will pass by unknowingly for several hours, and you may not even walk a few steps in half a day.

Especially for ladies who love beauty, after the holidays, they can't help but exclaim when they look at themselves on the scale.

How can you balance eating well and staying in shape during the holidays? Here are eight useful tips for you.

The first step: focus on three meals and control snacks.

There are always a lot of delicious food on the table during the holidays. If you are full during the meal, there is no need to eat a lot of snacks. Eating a combination of staple food + meat + vegetables for three meals a day until you are full will not make you fat quickly. Eating more snacks is a bigger problem. Most snacks are made of sugar, oil, and starch as the main ingredients. They are small in size, high in calorie density, and low in nutritional value. All you get is soft fat.

The second trick: satisfy your hunger before meals and eat slowly.

Studies have shown that eating a small amount of food half an hour before a meal, such as a piece of fruit, half a cup of yogurt, 1 cup of soy milk or milk, can effectively reduce appetite during meals and avoid overeating. If you are a person who really can't control your chopsticks, you can consider taking this approach. There is so much food, no one will fight with you for it, chewing it slowly can make you appreciate the deliciousness of the food and avoid overeating.

The third trick: pick out more bone spurs and add more vegetables.

At the dinner table, try to take more of the food that is more "troublesome" to eat. For example, you need to gnaw on the duck head, pick the bones from the fish tail, and remove the shells from the shrimps and crabs. Put more of them on the plate and eat them slowly. Seeing a lot of shells piled up on the plate, everyone will think you are very active in eating, and the atmosphere at the table will be very good. Eat more vegetables and less "hard dishes" so that you won't overeat easily.

Tip 4: Eat light staple foods and reduce frying.

During festivals, a large portion of food calories comes from fried foods and shortbread foods.

Fried rice cakes, rice cakes, leek boxes, spring rolls, as well as pastries, sesame cakes, fire-baked bread, and various crispy pastries contain both starch and a lot of fat, and are classic high-calorie foods.

It is best not to eat more than one of these foods every day, and choose the smallest portion when eating. Also eat less fried and greasy dishes. This way, the calories in the meal will not explode.

Tip 5: Avoid beverages and switch to light tea.

In addition to the calories from food, a large part of the calories come from drinks and soups during meals. Many people think that as long as they drink less alcohol, they will be fine. In fact, the calories in sweet drinks are also considerable.

A 200 ml paper cup of sweet drink or pure fruit juice contains about 80 to 100 kcal of calories.

Those milky white "milk soups" and soups with oil floating on the surface contain a lot of fat.

If you replace them with drinks such as light tea, chrysanthemum tea, barley tea, sugar-free lemonade, etc., these calories can be saved.

Tip 6: Have a light breakfast, drink porridge and eat vegetables.

If lunch and dinner are too rich and you have to eat them, then think about breakfast. Breakfast is usually not a party, and you can decide how much you eat, so don't eat greasy food. You might as well drink some millet porridge or oatmeal porridge, eat some vegetables and fruits, reduce the intake of fat and protein foods, and give the gastrointestinal tract and liver and gallbladder a chance to breathe.

Tip 7: Do more housework and increase your steps.

The key to staying in shape is to balance eating and exercise. If you eat too much, you need to increase your physical activity to burn off the extra calories.

Even if the gym is closed, you can still walk, run, do exercises, and do housework. Younger generations can show more consideration and filial piety by helping their parents go out to buy groceries, take out the trash, pick up parcels, play with children at the door, clean the house, and tidy up the house... Any of these can increase calorie consumption and make relatives and friends feel that you are diligent and capable.

Tip 8: Fast moderately and rest in time.

During the Spring Festival, you don’t need to have dinner together every day. You can also rest at home. If you really eat too much, you can tell your family that you have gastrointestinal discomfort and need to rest. You can choose a day that is relatively relaxed and free to do a light fast, eating only a quarter of the calories on other days. For example, you can only drink porridge and vegetables cooked with little oil for three meals. As long as you rest for a day, your body that feels tired due to overeating will feel much better.

Among the above eight methods, there are always a few that are suitable for you.

Every time a festival comes, some people will have some troubles due to improper diet, such as gastroenteritis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, etc. If we really have the awareness of healthy diet and follow the above advice, these things will not happen.

For most healthy young people who are moderate in their daily diet, there is no need to worry about relaxing their diet during the Chinese New Year. For example, even if you eat sweets twice or deep-fried dishes a few times, it is only for a few days during the holiday, and you will not gain a few pounds all of a sudden. It is enough to eat healthy and exercise regularly at other times. Finally, I wish you all a happy reunion meal during the holiday!