New Year's diet: secrets of how not to gain weight during the winter holidays

With New Year's feasts in the CIS countries, the situation is approximately the same as with Gogol's descriptions in "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". Namely: as a rare bird will fly to the middle of the Dnieper (as the classic wrote), so a rare person in our latitudes will be able to go through the copper pipes of many days of festive feasts so that his pants do not crack at the seams under the pressure of an enlarged belly.  

How can you spend the New Year holidays cheerfully, but so that the festive outfit does not become cramped? Unbelievable but true: it is possible! How? Let's figure it out together with estet-portal.com.

Secrets of the New Year's diet, so as not to get better after the holiday festivities

Let's face it (for the umpteenth time!): no matter how much we read about the dangers of overeating, give up Olivier basins; and buckets of jelly for the New Year (as well as Christmas, Christmas time, Old New Year and all the days in between) is almost unrealistic. Well, it’s real, actually, but how many of us have an iron, unbending will? Same thing.

So let's prepare (mentally, but not only) for New Year's feasts in advance, following simple, but effective tips. Believe me, this approach is much better than scolding yourself later for the extra few pounds that appeared at the waist in just a few days. You will thank yourself later.

Don't walk every time until morning – go to bed better

It has long been proven that lack of sleep – overweight best friend. Because with a lack of healthy sleep, the body begins to intensively produce the stress hormone cortisol, which contributes to the rapid deposition of fat on the abdomen and sides.

Therefore, this is the first and main advice: if you don't want to get better, don't dance until 5 o'clock in the morning at holiday parties every time, like the last one.

Did you celebrate the New Year well, falling asleep only with the first roosters? That will be with you. Limit all other festivities to midnight (or even better 10-11 pm), then go to bed. Bite your elbows that you miss the main fun? Believe me, these doubts will more than compensate for your fresh look and cheerful state in the morning, while your relatives or friends who walked until morning will look like pale shadows.

Don't starve before the feast

Many mistakenly believe that if they go hungry all day before the evening-night feast, then in this way they will somehow compensate for the culinary excesses for the figure. A fatal mistake that must not be repeated in any case!
Here everything works exactly the opposite. By completely depriving the body of any nutritious food all day, you slow down your metabolism. After all, it is well known that the metabolism is accelerated precisely by frequent fractional nutrition. And then, in a fit of hunger, you will sweep away much more from the festive table than you are used to eating in ordinary life. And the body, frightened by a sudden hunger strike the day before, will try to put aside double reserves in fat depots for another such sudden event. So the harm is double!

To avoid such a sad scenario, during the day before the feast, eat a little bit (200-300 g at a time) of easily digestible food every 3-4 hours: cereals, boiled, stewed or baked chicken breast, apples and vegetable salads with vegetable oil.

I carry everything I have with me

If you go to visit and know for sure that the hospitable hostess of the house is used to feeding guests half to death with salads with mayonnaise, fatty pork knuckle and homemade cakes, then you have to cheat.

Bring some lighter appetizers, salads and desserts with you under the guise that you wanted to help the hostess and lighten her culinary burden with your contribution to the common cause of gluttony.

Such help is always accepted with gratitude, but you will have an affordable alternative to heavy food on the common table.

First glass of – only after meals

Many people start the feast with a glass of champagne (especially if alcohol libations begin in parallel with the preparations for the table).
Alcohol on an empty stomach – a bad solution not only for health, but also for the waist. Since alcohol is rapidly absorbed by an empty stomach, it quickly paralyzes the ability to reason and control one's actions at the table. In addition, alcohol stimulates a brutal appetite – You yourself will not notice how you will already be snacking on alcohol with smoked sausage and herring "under a fur coat".
If you eat normally first, and only then knock over the first glass, then the effect of overeating will not be so pronounced.

At the table, eat the "chosen ones" dishes

At the beginning of the evening, decide on the least harmful dishes that will save you and your figure for the whole holiday. Try to eat them exclusively.
Dishes based on baked, stewed or boiled fish, seafood, lean meats (chicken, turkey, rabbit, game, veal and lean beef), vegetable salads (only with vegetable oil, not with mayonnaise), vegetable and fruit cuts. Some cheese platter – also good: useful, quickly satiates, but you won’t eat much.

Drink more clean water

Few people remember this in the midst of a festive feast, so prepare in advance: put a bottle of non-carbonated mineral water next to your plate. Drink a glass before the start of the feast, and then drink a little after each glass / glass. And eat, and you will get less drunk, and there will be no hangover in the morning.

Don't sit all evening over your plate
Movement – life, we do not get tired of repeating after the athletes and just fans of a healthy lifestyle.

If you spend the holidays actively (dance a lot, participate in mobile competitions or hold them yourself, go out for a walk with the company), then the positive effect will not even be double, but triple!

Firstly, you will look at your plate less often, which means – eat fewer calories. Secondly, you can quickly burn some of the calories already eaten. Well, you will get drunk after drinking much less.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated about these rules of the so-called "New Year's diet"; no. And in order to comply with them, you don’t even need to particularly infringe on yourself in delicious food. But their observance will allow you to overcome all the risks of the New Year holidays with less damage to the figure. Happy Holidays!

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