A common holiday for most people is the New Year tree, the Napoleon cake, traditional champagne and a mountain of gifts. However, in fact it can be expensive. And this is not about money: here you can include the cost of months of experience and throwing before the New Year holidays, as well as repeated overeating. According to modern surveys, 44% of women are in a state of chronic stress during all Christmas holidays. In addition, they are much more likely than men to perform unhealthy activities, for example, rush to the refrigerator and drink alcohol in an attempt to cope with stress. Overeating in this case is impossible.
The results of such excessive consumption of food and alcohol can be especially harmful. Studies of recent years have shown that even those who gain quite a bit of weight during the holidays usually keep this surplus, adding on average almost half a kilogram per year. If you think carefully about this, it will seem that it is easier to give up altogether from all the feasts. But this is not so. There is another alternative.
You can turn an ordinary holiday into an alternative: more sincere, useful and unusual. Using our article, you can get rid of stress, tension in family relationships, will not overeat and change them for peace, peace of mind and healthy food.
Feast for a feast can even adhere to a healthy diet to force to consume kilograms of sweet, fatty and high-calorie. If you make yourself indulgent in the form of a cake from time to time, it will not affect your figure, and even bring joy. But if you zealous with cakes every day during all Christmas holidays, the result is lethargy, overeating, weight gain and indigestion. But how can you avoid a festive overeating, if it looks so normal?
Find the reason, ask yourself: why do you overeat during the festive evenings? Is it hard for you to communicate with one of your relatives during the feast? Or are you worried that dinner is good enough? Perhaps, during usual time you keep a diet, but on holidays you allow yourself to relax?
Do a follow-up by another piece of cake or another glass of champagne as you pause, think - are you really hungry or just tired, want to sleep or stay alone. Analyze your feelings and emotions.
Watch the world around you, how the signals provoke your cravings for food - for example, the awkwardness of being in a crowded room where you do not know anyone, or the smell of patties that you used to bake with your grandmother - and try to be as little as possible in places, where you can face them. Then you can better deal with them.
Avoid temptations for a long time, where you are tempted to overeat. At the buffet table, do not stand in front of a bar or a buffet - put a few tidbits on the plate, and then move to the other end of the room. Communicate more.
Sometimes it is difficult or uncomfortable not to try especially tasty morsels from a festive table. And not only because of a great desire, but also because of the fear that if you refuse a treat, you will spoil the festive mood or attract unnecessary attention to yourself.
If the hostess is persistently offering us a dish, politely say that you will try this a little later. If on the table there is nothing at all from healthy dishes, refuse delicacies, saying that you are full. No one will force you to eat more than you want.
Overeating is the only problem for women of all ages and peoples. If you refuse food in the evening, you will harm yourself. It is best to eat small portions, it will save you from excess weight and follow a diet.