Holiday diet tips

Holiday diet tips

To really succeed on your diet plan, you need to commit to your goals, especially
around the holidays when friends and families gather to celebrate around big
meals, and even bigger desserts!

You need an Anti Food-Pusher Plan in place to help you. Here are some tips to help
you pull through a holiday season of food pushers:

1) I encourage you to contact the family members you're most concerned about and
talk to them privately before the holiday. Tell them about the healthy lifestyle
changes you are making, and that you would like their support by not "pushing"
you to keep tasting their rich food.

2) You can be polite and take a small amount of the dishes that your family
worked hard on cooking - just know that a few tastes may be all you need.

3) Focus on engaging and talking to family members about fun, neutral non-food
topics like the dancing with the stars finale so that the focus during the meal
gets off of the meal.

4) Practice saying “no thank you.” Be prepared when the food pushers want you to
take just 1 more piece of pie by saying "no thanks" and moving on quickly to
another topic of conversation.

5) Find someone in your family (even a young niece or nephew) who thinks it
would be cool to take an after dinner walk around the neighborhood before dessert.
This will energize you and help you to stay on program.

6)When you don't want to eat, pop a piece of sugarless gum into your mouth. This works well when you're cooking or when you're trying not to dive into the buffet, says Nonas

7)"Eschew the appetizers rather than chewing on them," says Katz. If you need a little nibble before the meal, go for the veggies, fruit, salsa, or a small handful of nuts.