Secret Guide to Eating ANYTHING You Want at Christmas
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You Can Eat Anything At Christmas
It's holiday season which means anything goes. Chocolate for breakfast, champagne long before lunch, big stodgy desserts... Make the most of Christmas by not just confining these wacky eating habits to the big day: start when you receive your first Christmas card, and don't stop till you take your decorations down (by which point that ladder might be groaning under your weight).
If Other People Are Eating, You Should Be Too
Your six-foot-four football-playing brother is home from college for Christmas? Make sure that whenever he's helping himself to a toasted cheese sandwich, you get one too. After all, if someone else is eating, that's a great excuse for you to dig in. Especially when they're eating candies or chocolates or nuts from a communal bowl; you want your share, don't you?
Foods Smaller Than Your Thumb Don't Count
You might have heard the advice "never eat anything bigger than your head": this is the corrolary. Anything smaller than your thumb (like little wrapped chocolates, cashew nuts...) won't have an impact on your waistline. Go ahead, eat as many as you like. If one piece of candy won't do any harm, why should fifty pieces be any different?
Leftovers Are Virtuous - Whatever You Put With Them
Lots of leftovers in the fridge? Almost anything can become a tasty snack with the addition of cheese, cream or mayo. Hey - you're using up leftovers, an intrinsically virtuous act that no amount of added fat can negate. Of course, you could use leftover meat as a stock and bung in some aging veggies to make soup - but that's boring, right?
Homemade Goodies Are Always Healthy
When your friends bring round baskets of star-shaped cookies, red-and-green iced cupcakes and handmade chocolate truffles, don't hesitate to gobble the lot. Anything homemade is automatically healthy: it doesn't matter how much sugar or butter it contains.
Scoff Everything Before Your New Year's Diet Starts
Of course, you're waiting until January 1st to start your New Year's resolutions (you'll look a bit keen if you beat the rush by starting now). So you'll need to eat all your Christmas goodies between December 25th and 31st - that week-long binge is going to help your diet. Isn't it?
What great healthy eating "facts" do you have for the Christmas period? Share them with us in the comments!
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If you made it, the calories don't count. 'Cause, you know, you put in all that exercise to roll out the cookie dough, make up the icing...you need to replace the calories!
ReplyI agree. I love to eat everything forbidden for the holidays. I know that after that I will go back to my training and nutrition regime and burn everything. People have to be happy during these holidays, because this is the point. We are not a machines.
We have to be happy with other people, this is what I think. May be most of you like me as well, hate articles about "What we haven't eat during holidays" and so on. The fact is that we have to eat everything. Its not so hard to go back to the normal living after that.
What do you people think about it?
ReplyUm.... and don't forget that if ice-cream is melted and you just scoop it up with your fingers and then clean your fingers (in your mouth of course) that doesn't count either!
ReplyThe good news is that you *can* do all these things if you exercise regularly. One week of a little indulgence won't kill you (unless you're diabetic or something).
ReplyOne of the holiday traditions in my family was all of the women sitting at the table slicing off little "slivers" of cake rather than one big piece. See, eating five or six little slivers of cake didn't count, only if it was a big slab of cake. Same for ice cream.....a few little spoonfuls out of the carton? No problem. A scoop of it thrown on a piece of cake? Diet is doomed.
ReplyAlso, anything you eat WHILE making food doesn't count. Slice off a 4 oz hunk of that rast to "taste" and "test for done-ness?" Doesn't count. Slurp a big fat spoonful of that cheese sauce? Doesn't count. Lick 3.5 oz. of cookie dough out of the bowl, off beaters and from the spoon? Doesn't count.
Holiday food only counts once it's cooked.*
*WARNING: JimK will not be responsible for the condition of your waistline if you follow his advice, which quite frankly is ridiculous, but it's Christmas/Hannukah/etc. so lighten up, eat some fun stuff and just keep exercising and you'll be fine.
Replythe sad thing is that there are plenty of people who do live by these tidbits...especially the one about home-cooked foods.
Replycookies do not contain calories until you bake them. It's a well known fact - you can look it up at ridiculousnotions.com
ReplyHaha, I always end up following these "rules" when I come back for the holidays. It tastes great, but doesn't really leave you feeling all that fit after the holidays are done. :(
ReplyDon't forget the "diet" doughnuts, you know the ones with holes in them. :)
ReplyLOL, these are great. My favorite holiday "rule" about food is that cookies do not count unless they're baked. Which means you're entitled to all the dough you want...just don't eat any baked ones; those are loaded with calories. Also, any alcoholic beverages consumed on Christmas bring "good cheer" and thus do not contain any calories.
ReplyI just knew we had done this last year. I can't believe it's been a year. And I've consumed NO calories in all that time. Wonders never cease.
ReplyAnd don't forget to eat a peanut at least every three minutes
Replyand of course anything stolen from someone else's plate comes from their calorie allowance, not from your own!
ReplyOh, and if no one actually *sees* you eat it, it doesn't count too. so those late-night, standing in front of the fridge, shoveling pie into your face only hits your hips if you get caught.
ReplyWhen I take Phentramin D I feel that the struggle through the holidays are not nearly as hard. it helps to keep me inline and helps fight off the cravings. I always get mine from SlimEffects.com
ReplyI agree you can indulge a little bit, but I would not go crazy. It can throw you off for more than just the holidays if you aren't careful. Besides all that work to keep the weight off all year and you are just going to throw it all away in one week. I say moderation.
ReplyHi There,
There is nothing wrong in eating as you have described in your article as this is what Christmas time all about however it is good to have a regular workout as well during these days eventhough as light as regular morning and evening walk which can adjust extra eating and you won't feel bad as wouldn't put up too much weight.
ReplyReally looking forward to checking out the 2009 National Body Challenge that Discovery Health just kicked off. My girlfriend was telling me there's plenty of tips and insight how to start your new year on the right track! There will also be a week long event beginning Monday, Jan 5th where 6 challengers will compete to replace old habits with healthy alternatives!
Replyhttp://health.discovery.com/national-body-challenge/national-body-challenge.html
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ReplyI agree. On Christmas day and Christmas Eve, lay off the sweets and enjoy yourself. Trying to lay off all your little sins is an exercise in futility. I had to develop a completely new philosophy on dieting when I finally decided to get myself into shape.
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