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5 Weight Loss Tips to Control Your Eating During Thanksgiving
Oh boy, it’s that time of year again!
Summer’s been over for a little while now and the shirts are all back on…
Without the pressure of having to look good outside, with the added comfort of layering up to cover unwanted body fat, and with the lure of the holiday season, it is can be very, very easy to give in to temptation, go on an all out food bender for the next month, and destroy traces of fat loss that you’ve worked so hard to achieve.
Thanksgiving is without a doubt the beginning of many a well-meaning soul’s weight loss demise. Putting on 20 or 30 pounds in a month is not unheard of this time of year, and so many people destroy months of hard work and fat loss results just because…
“Hey, it’s the holiday season, right? A little more chocolate cake won’t hurt. OK, a whole chocolate cake won’t hurt!”
Well before you know it, you’ve fallen victim to one of the world’s classic blunders – the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is this: letting a little Holiday Cheer turn you into a professional eater
(for you confused folk, the former is a quote from the classic movie “The Princess Bride”)
In any event, you do not have to be one of these people. In fact, follow my 5 tips for controlling your eating (and drinking) during Thanksgiving, and you’ll be in a prime position to control your weight and be in great shape come the new year.
So without further ado, My 5 Weight Loss Tips to Control Your Eating During Thanksgiving:
- Fill up on vegetables first. Hey, almost everyone’s Thanksgiving dinner consists of a turkey, some mashed potatoes, and loads of vegetable dishes. Choose the vegetables that you enjoy the most, and make sure that two-thirds of your plate is covered in them. Even though some of these may be covered in not-so-healthy gravy and other dressings, it’s still the best alternative.
- Fill the other two-thirds with mostly turkey (and a little mashed potatoes and stuffing, if you must)
- Go easy on the gravy. Most of us love that fattening, buttery, gooey, brownish-colored, delicious gravy, right? Well, even if you do, sprinkle a little bit on you turkey for taste…and no more!
- Avoid seconds…for now. Remember that 5-6 meals per day is generally much more conducive to fat burning than 2 or 3 meals. Instead of stuffing yourself silly at dinner, eat half then and save the other half (mostly those delicious vegetables and lean turkey, of course) for later. Think of it as two awesome meals instead of one…with greater weight loss benefits.
- Make the decision NOW to control your eating during the holiday season and decide to stick to it(this one’s my favorite). Listen, right now thousands of fat loss experts around the world are touting their “Tips for fat loss during the holidays” just like I’m doing right now. But while most of these experts are giving valuable tips and information, I know that knowledge alone does not equal results. Heck, if it did, then we’d all be thin and muscular, wouldn’t we? The bottom line is that you have to create a mindset - fueled by intense emotion - that no matter what tempting situations are presented to you, you will control your eating during the holidays. I know this sounds simple, but if you can really convince yourself that you can do it, your chances of making it through without looking like a sumo wrestler will increase ten-fold.
This Thanksgiving, be like a Samurai Warrior, not a sumo wrestler…control your eating -> control your weight -> control your life!
