Holiday Weight:
Lose, Maintain, or Gain – You choose!
 

Plan your diet before the New Year

Travel, entertaining, vacations, holidays, family gatherings, birthdays, New Year's celebrations: add them up and special occasions easily make up 25% of your calendar. Their impact can’t be ignored because these events often create setbacks in weight, exercise and health goals.

 

So what’s your plan this year? If you don’t have one yet, the holidays will take over and 10 pounds later you’ll be searching for the latest diet plan for the desperate after New Year’s. Here’s a realistic action plan that you can start now.

Lose or Maintain?  You choose

Plan Your Diet Goals Before Holidays

First decide your weight goal for the holidays. If you want to lose weight over the holidays...

1. If you’re serious about losing weight over the holidays, we recommend that you follow a very well planned diet that allows you to track your calorie intake each day. Use a realistic, flexible plan that lets you include and track non-diet “feast” foods instead of ignoring them. If you’re using PersonalDiets “plan-a-meal” you can easily track extra holiday foods and dining out choices. You’ll be given calorie goals so you can see how close you are to your weight loss goals each day when you enter the actual foods you eat. That way, even if your food choices are sporadic, unplanned and aren’t exactly the healthiest foods, you’ll still have a way of tracking total calories and be able to salvage your diet in the days ahead. The point is, even if you are going “off” your diet for the holidays, you can still lose weight if you get some tight control over total food intake and have a way to balance out those days when you overdo it.

2. Weigh yourself every day at the same time and don’t ignore the scale over the holidays. It’s a lot easier to correct a 2-pound weight gain than it is to lose 10-15 pounds after the holidays. The trick is to get back on track right away to make up the difference. Track your weight every day – this is a must!!!!

3.  Absolutely increase your physical activity level by moving more over the holidays. You’ll need to burn more calories at this time of year to make up for the party foods! Preferably exercise before your event because it will remind you of how hard you’ve worked to lose weight – so is the extra food really worth the extra sweat?
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