The “Holiday Weight Gain Trap”
We all know exactly what it is. The holidays, at least in the northwest, are a veritable maze of booby traps designed to sabotage anyone’s good diet intentions. And trying to lose weight around the holidays?
Talk about torture, it’s nearly impossible! Everyone is shoving cookies and cakes and other sugary, fatty goods in your face. They’re in your office, in your home, at friends houses.
Everyone has candies and gifts of food that they bring in. It’s basically your worst diet nightmare around the holidays, and it’s very hard not to succumb to the holiday 5 lb. weight gain, which I myself have succumbed to many times, only to take it right back off in a post holiday detox diet from feeling so guilty about eating so badly for days or weeks at a time!
So, what can you do to help fend off the holiday weight gain, and the constant temptation of your favorite foods in your face. How do you ignore the pleasant smells, the colors, the flavor anticipation of the many diet-sinful foods that are all around you? Can you even try to ignore it?
Well, there are some ways you can at least help curb the holiday food temptations that loom all around you. Here’s what they are ( let’s not forget, an occasional indulgence is ok, it’s when your days are filled with these indulgences that your body starts to rack up weight) :
1.) Eat a small snack like baby carrots before you go somewhere where there will be lots of sweets. Baby carrots, especially the good, young tender and sweet ones, are a great sweet snack, and I’ve found they work wonderfully when I’m craving something sweet to end that craving - REALLY!
2.) Take a good supplement that helps naturally curb the appetite, like Hoodia (see suggestion in this blog). Hoodia is all natural with no stimulants and it really just tricks the mind into thinking it’s full when it’s not.
3.) Drink lots of water. If you can’t do that, get a diet soda wherever you’re at. Drinking this instead of filling up on caloric treats will help your mouth stay busy without loading up on artery clogging, thigh and belly expanding fats and sugars.
