We are preparing for the New Year: how to avoid overeating during the holiday feast

Endless salads with mayonnaise and sour cream, meat in large quantities and, of course, a lot of baking. In the standard for our New Year's table range, even if you just try all the dishes a little, get up from the table is already difficult. Therefore, you need to prepare for it in advance. That is not to stretch the stomach, and the coaching iron will and determined expression on his face;)

Custom solid Christmas and New Year feasts is rooted far back in time. Our great-grandparents fasted before the great feast, respectively, already on holidays they themselves made up their reserves.

During normal deficit champagne, sweets and other dishes worthy of an ordinary Soviet citizen could afford only on New Year's Eve. But we live in a time when any product can be on our table at our request. A habit of stuffing their bellies on the feasts of Christmas and stayed.

Reduce the number of meals

When you are the master of the feast, it's pretty easy to do. It is much harder when you came to visit relatives. In this case, you just need to keep yourself in the hands and pretend that you have already tried. If you are preparing for the arrival of relatives, and they have made to the table was a lot of things, resort to a simple trick - one dish is divided into several stages. Then you will be able to create the appearance of plenty and do not overeat.

30 minutes before the feast, drink a glass of water

When he came to visit, ask the owners of a glass of water - this will reduce the feeling of hunger. And remember that feeling of fullness occurs within 20 minutes after a meal.

Bring a useful and healthy food with a

I prefer to eat salads without mayonnaise. If the recipe calls for, I try to cook it myself. But our relatives in this with us in solidarity. But they love when we, too, are contributing to the New Year's table. Therefore, either we bring with us something from our diet or I come early and help prepare more useful and interesting dishes.

Practice the "thoughtful" food

That is not just hammer the stomach itself. Try to eat slowly in order to feel all the flavors. In this case, you will have less time and be able to feel satiety.

Praise the meal during the feast

So you are, firstly, eat less because your mouth is busy chewing except another important thing - chanting odes of praise to the chef. And secondly, will win the favor of the one who is ready. Here, the standard rule "when I eat, I am deaf and dumb" is better not to follow.

After the holiday table, drink a cup of espresso

Even if you are not a fan of coffee, a cup of espresso should not give up after a hearty lunch. Coffee contains chlorogenic acidWhich promote digestion, inhibits the release of glucose into the blood and reduces fat production. If, nevertheless, for some reason you do not drink coffee, you can replace it with a cup of green tea, which is also known for its properties to improve metabolism.

Follow the rule of three bites

Whatever the tasty Christmas treats, try to put on the plate just a little bit. After three bites (spoons, pieces, etc.), the sensitivity of our receptors dulled food and we did not feel the divine taste of the dish. Therefore apply yourself uphill favorite salad is not worth it. From the first few spoons you get the pleasure, and the rest will have absorbed as "hay".

Limit alcohol consumption

Alcohol in large quantities is not only bad for our cognitive abilities, but it also has a number of negative properties that prevent weight loss. On the one hand, it increases our appetite, and on the other - reduces the body's ability to burn fat.

Ask dessert takeaway

That's your family lunch or dinner ended and you're sitting with a sense of accomplishment and fullness in the abdomen. You think you have fulfilled your filial duty and can safely get up from the table. But it was not there! Chances wriggle out of "a tea with a cake ?!" usually virtually zero. And if you do not try to get back, "but I am the same yesterday and three nights cakes for Napoleon was rolling and baking!". Naturally, the arguments against it are hard to find.

A great option - ask for a sweet with her. And if you also add something like, "Let's more, I bragged (las) friends that my mother prepares the most delicious "Napoleon" in the world, and promised to treat them "deserve tears of emotion and an additional piece of cake in load. Refusing really uncomfortable, and asking for dessert with a mistress and praise, you will not offend anyone. In the end, she could actually stand in the kitchen until three in the morning, and you will drop all the same friends for tea.

Set the table in the Italian style

The Italians do not put on the table all the dishes at once. They bring them in turn. First, appetizers and salads, then something more dense (paste), then meat, then dessert.

In this case, guests have the opportunity to always ask for more if you really liked the dish, or else stop going. Typically, an expose on the table all the dishes at once, as it were said that you hope that it will all be eaten. Some guests just awkward to refuse, even if they did not like. They will continue to have, so as not to offend the host.

Maintain an active lifestyle

Does not hang in front of the endless television Christmas show. In the New Year's Eve show as movies and entertainment shows that you can spend all the holidays without getting up in front of a TV. And when you combine this with the constant feasts and eating in front of this same TV (watching TV person eats 40% more), then the extra kilograms are guaranteed.

Holidays - this is not a reason to delay your workout (many sports clubs weekends only on January 1). Go to visit friends, walk together on New Year's city, skating and sledding, weather permitting. And if not, in any city there is an indoor ice rink, operating 11 months a year, or roller skating and go-karting in large shopping centers.

New Year's holidays - a great excuse to see my friends, visit relatives, a tasty meal and a good time in general. Keep yourself in their hands and, just in case, remember that one piece of cake costs about four km run at an average pace of 5.5 minutes per km;)