It is customary to celebrate New Year's holidays at a richly set table. Diligent housewives prepare so many dishes that they are eaten up for several more days. And there are trips to visit, return visits, Christmas and Old New Year ahead. Naturally, such a marathon does not have the best effect on the figure.
Instructions
Step 1
In order not to gain weight over the New Year holidays, adjust your holiday menu. Eliminate mayonnaise entirely, as it is a very high-calorie product. Replace it with vegetable oil, liquid low-fat cottage cheese, kefir or lemon juice. By the way, there was no mayonnaise in the original recipe for the traditional New Year's salad "Olivier". Also, instead of sausages, use boiled beef, chicken or turkey breast, boiled pork in salads. Do not neglect fish, but buy low-fat species: saury or pink salmon.
Step 2
Limit the consumption of alcoholic beverages at the festive table. Alcohol promotes easy absorption of carbohydrates and fats, reduces self-control over the amount of food consumed, retains fluid in the body and provokes edema.
Step 3
Offer your family more fruit and vegetable dishes. These foods do not contain fat. Do not put marinades and pickles on the New Year's table. Salt retains fluid and helps to increase body volume.
Step 4
To eat less, drink more mineral, non-carbonated or plain water as you eat.
Step 5
The feast is, first of all, not tasting dishes, but communication of relatives and friends. Talk more, so you yourself will reduce the amount eaten, or at least you will eat slowly, which means that you will feel full faster. It does not depend at all on the amount of food consumed, but on the assimilation of its components. So eat slowly.
Step 6
Help your body use the carbohydrates and fats you eat properly. To do this, alternate a sitting position with physical activity. Lack of physical activity will become a signal for the body and he will begin to deposit absorbed fats in reserve in the subcutaneous fat. And active physical activity forces the body to spend a lot of energy on muscle contraction. Therefore, walk more, ski, swim in the pool and go dancing.
