Healthy Christmas: you can enjoy without gaining weight

Christmas is loaded to celebrate together to eat and mulled wine in the supermarkets, the shelves are already filled for weeks with biscuits and gingerbread, and on weekends, the stands spread to the Christmas markets with their tempting aroma of roasted almonds, potato pancakes and baked apples. Shortly before Christmas, the focus, like no other year since, to tasty and often high-calorie food. Especially at the holidays, if you come with the family together, spend many of their days at home, it is regularly dished out, and around the clock chocolate and biscuits are at the ready.

Most of the increase to the Christmas days, which were confirmed by a study from the year 2017, which was published in the Journal of Obesity. The meet, however, to all those who are particularly motivated to lose weight and your eating habits particularly control. The enjoyment during the Christmas season, a special place – and it is perfectly in order, the rest of his eating habits a little to extend. However, for all who do not want to take in the Christmas season, we have several tips on the enjoyment of all.

Tip #1: pay Attention to the serving sizes!

On holidays, the table is usually covered, and with the wide variety of dishes – since the eyes are often larger than the appetite, as it is so beautiful. Therefore, Control your portions and taste you prefer a little bit of everything, less to cover, instead of the half a plate of dumplings or potatoes. For this you must not skimp on side dishes, like red cabbage and vegetables. What applies to food in everyday life, can also be used on the Christmas dinner to apply: The more you eat, the healthier they are. (For more on ideal portion sizes, you can read here)

Tip #2: Healthy Christmas Snacks

In the Advent of a opportunity is always to grab sweets to – starting with the daily chocolate behind the little door in the advent calendar and ends with the self-baked cookies, the of the colleague to work brings. But there is good news: There is a healthier and low-calorie Alternative to Christmas chocolate and gingerbread-heart: Attack you instead prefer to nuts, dates, tangerines, or Apples. Biscuits with spelt and wholemeal flour, using natural sweeteners instead of white sugar – all of which makes the Treats, rich in nutrients. Also on Christmas markets, the principle can be implemented: Make almonds a bow to be fired, and taxes instead, the state with the Chestnuts with dark chocolate coated fruit are allowed to treat yourself. (See here for more tips with which you can go to the calorie bombs at the Christmas markets out of the way)

Tip #3: Take Long Walks

At the holidays, often going to sleep, with relish, and extended to be eaten and as much time as possible at home, surrounded by loved ones, spent. Despite the conviviality and the slow-ticking clock on holidays at the sport routine to hold on, to succeed the least. It doesn’t need to. The exercise should, however, be missing – this allows you to install easily into the family Routine with, for example, with long walks or a game of Curling? (How to integrate without much effort, more movement in your everyday life, you can find here)

Tip #4: alcohol only in moderation

Who is not on the Christmas markets for mulled wine, and ordered a cocoa and cream. The liquid calories lurking, however, not only there but also at home. The socializing leads often to you leave your habits behind, and but to persuade is to drink along with them. Exceptions are ok, but only exceptions. If you drink alcohol, you should refrain from high-calorie drinks such as beer and instead go for a glass of wine is often drank with more delight and a little slower. Apple wine offers itself as a low-calorie substitute for the classic mulled wine. (All questions around the topic of alcohol, you will find Slimming here)

Tip #5: Snacking allowed

Many of the Treats you eat only in the Christmas season – chocolate-coated tree cake, Christmas Stollen, gingerbread, biscuits, dominoes and also Marzipan tastes in Advent, just different than in the Rest of the year. If you happen to so desire on the Christmas cookies: do not Be too strict with yourself, and you allow yourself to be an exception, as long as this is the rule. To set yourself rules on holidays once per day, in the run-up to Christmas, once per week, as it works best for you.

Aware of eat and enjoy

Food is and will remain something Social, when the conversation and connects people together. In the Christmas season this is especially noticeable. You will spend your days not to have a bad Conscience, because they have something more, or more unhealthy food than usual. You can still eat consciously – but you can also enjoy aware. Finally, come the new year after the Christmas days with all the intentions to make it better soon – you are motivated to find back into their usual rhythm. (For more information and tips about healthy nutrition, you can find here)

This article was written by (Angelika Watta)

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