The Gift You Don't Want to Recieve this Holiday!

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It is the time of the year, when there is family gatherings, food, and great memories!

It is the time of the year when we easily gain those extra pounds without guilt. But how about 5 tips to prevent the weight gain during this holiday season?

#1 Control your portion

It’s all about moderation! Enjoy your dinners with family, yet try to minimize the options filled with sugar & calories, or aim for a smaller portion of theses options. If you’re worried about portion control, you can use smaller plates or reduce the number of dishes you serve at each meal.

Focus more on consuming healthy and nutri-dense meals. One tips to help you with that, aim for a colourful plate which will grant you consuming more nutrients. The more colurs you eat, the more nutrients your body will be nourished with!

However, if you felt you couldn't achieve that, try yo get things straight in the next meal, for example, if you had a dinner filled with calorie, try to have a lighter breakfast next morning.

#2 Aim for Homemade food options

Homemade meals contains way less calories than other processed meals. When preparing the meal home, you can control the ingredients added and the quantitiy as well as the quality of the food. However, meals bought ready, can have more sugar or fat as resuturants aim to lower the cost of meal preperation, and to have more platable food.

#3 Eat slowly

One of the easy hacks to help you consume way less than usual, when we eat slowly we help the body to feel satiated and will prevent it to consume more.

Studies showed that eating slowly can give our stomachs enough time to send the hormonal signal to our brain telling us that we’re full, which will help us prevent overeating.

#4 Keep moving

Keep up your regular exercise even in holidays, as it is important for both your mental and physical health, and will help you not gain those extra pounds too!

if you don't exercise regularly, try to take a walk after a large meal to help you body better digest it.

Exercising with a group is way easier than doing it alone, you can organize a family or friends outing to do an activity together, as going to a park for a walk, going bowling or anything that keeps you moving!

#5 Don't miss on the seasonal snacks!

Enjoy the festive season with the healthy seasonal snacks such as Mandarin (high in Vitamin C) & Roasted Chestnuts (Low in fat).

Try to eat some healthy filling snacks before gatherings as it helps you not to consume big portions of other food options.

Extra tips:

• Remember that weight gain is related for far more factors than just eating, such as your intake of water and your sleeping scheduale, so keep in mind these two facttors during holidays.

• Don't skip your meals, even if you had a small snack instead of a meal, as skipping a meal will lead to extra calorie consumed in the following meal.

• Consume more vegetables as possible, it has a lot of fiber and has low calories especially before a meal, so aim for a salad dish before any meal, it will help you consume less food and aid in a better digestion.

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