7 Diet Tips To Stay Fat Free This Xmas Season
It might be the holiday season but that doesn’t mean you can let bad eating habits slip in, use these 7 diet tips to keep you fat free this Xmas.
There are many things you can do to control your waistline at Xmas time, use the 7 strategies below to prevent over indulgence.
1. Fill up on good food first.
Just because it’s Xmas that doesn’t mean you can gorge yourself on anything at the table, begin every meal by eating wholesome nutritious food such as fruits, veggies, fish and nuts. This way by the time the dangerous high calorie foods come out youll be to full to do too much damage.
2. Intense workouts before or after a big meal.
This doesn’t really fall into the category of diet tips but definitely needs special mention. Within 30 minutes before, or up to 3 hours of intense activity your body craves higher calorie/carbohydrate meals. Look to fit some high intensity activity into this time, even a 20-30 minute steady walk will help limit the damage.
3. More water please!
Drinking water limits the amount of space in your stomach and can help reduce your appetite. For every plate of food you eat, drink between 1 and 2 glasses of water. With 1 liter of water and a plate full of food in your stomach you might just pass on desert.
4. Please sir can I have some more!
Eat slow and chew your food more, research shows that after 20 minutes of eating a signal goes off in the brain telling you you’re full. Try eating only half of any unhealthy foods on you plate, half the potion means half the calories.
5. Never eat junk first thing in the morning or last thing at night.
Eating sweet food first thing in the morning will send your blood sugar levels loopy for the rest of the day resulting in more sweet food cravings and uncontrollable hunger. On the other end of the scale eating a high calorie meal just before you go to bed will result in a ton of unused energy which will end up being stored as body fat.
6. Stay away from empty liquid calories and Alcohol.
One of the fastest ways you can put on weight is through drinking empty calories. It’s possible to consume over 1000 calories per day just from liquid calories alone. This means that in just one week you will gain 1kg of body fat just from fluids. Stay away from juices and soft drinks and opt to eat wholesome solid foods that will fill you up and provide your body with the nutrients it needs. Alcohol is full of empty calories and with no real nutritional value which will therefore increase fat storage. Drinking too much alcohol reduces the amount of fat your body burns for energy and while the liver is metabolizing alcohol you’re unable to metabolize fat.
7. Don’t starve yourself before a big meal.
Starving yourself before a big meal will lead to overeating. Not only that but you will crave foods that are high in sugar, fat or both. Starving yourself forces your body into survival mode, your body will anticipate a famine state so much of the incoming food will be stored as body fat (survival energy) in anticipation that it won’t see food again for another long period of time. Eat every 2 to 4 hours just as you normally would and stop yourself from becoming a human garbage disposal.
Till next time.
Train Hard!
Dan Clay
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