New Year's Holidays: How To Avoid Overeating

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Long New Year's celebrations are tempting with an abundance of food. Consider a topic of concern to many: "how to maintain a figure and not suffer from overeating."

Festive meal

During the winter holidays, we spend little time outside. Home laziness is diluted with abundant and frequent meals. Meetings with friends and family are not complete without a laid table. Even those who follow proper nutrition and control their weight suffer from excess calories and increase their waist. Nutritionists advise to prepare in advance for the New Year holidays.

1. Make a list of dishes for the holiday table. Focus on low-calorie meals. Include more vegetables and fruits.

2. In the preparation of salads, use less eggs and mayonnaise, if possible replace with sour cream, light sauces.

3. Baked piglet, goose duck, lamb and pork dishes are difficult to digest. An alternative to meat will be low-fat marine fish (aspic, baked).

4. Research shows that the color red reduces appetite. If there are no such plates, use napkins, dishes, tablecloth and decorations in bright red tones for serving.

5. Buy red dry wine. This alcoholic drink speeds up the metabolism.

Take time to exercise during the holidays. Leave the house more often, take walks. If you are constantly exercising, do not make a "weekend" for all the holidays.

Signs of overeating

• bloating in the abdomen, heaviness;

• heartburn, belching;

• gas formation;

• An excess of fatty foods causes the appearance of bitterness in the mouth;

• excessive consumption of sweets, cabbage, horseradish provokes bloating;

• Difficult to digest protein food (pork, lamb) in large quantities causes constipation.

The danger of overeating is that there are problems with digestion, metabolism is disturbed, exacerbations of chronic diseases occur (gastritis, hypertension, gallbladder, liver, thyroid gland, etc.).

How to reduce the possibility of overeating

1. Do not sit down at the table on an empty stomach. Eat an apple, drink a glass of water.

2. Take digestive enzymes half an hour before the feast: Festal, Pancreatin, Allahol, Gaviscon, etc. They will protect against heartburn, flatulence / gas formation, and accelerate digestion.

3. Eat only food at the table that will not harm you. Don't be tempted to try something you didn't plan to eat.

4. If you want to enjoy "junk food", take scanty portions, do not add too much.

5. When filling your plate, adhere to the rule: two-thirds should be vegetables, healthy foods.

6. Calories carry drinks. Do not drink juices, fruit drinks, fruit drinks - only mineral water.

7. Leave the table more often, this makes it possible to understand how full you are and to stop abuse.

Actions after overeating

It is difficult to resist culinary temptations. People of the older generation who celebrate without leaving the table for several hours especially suffer from the feast. Alternative methods will help relieve the symptoms of overeating.

Eat 3-5 pieces of anise or cumin / coriander seeds if you feel uncomfortable. You can chew or swallow the whole grains with water. Lemon works well: dilute a teaspoon of freshly squeezed juice in half a glass of water, drink and after 10 minutes you will feel relief.

Gas formation is quickly removed by dill water or by chewing several seeds. Peppermint infusion improves digestion, it stimulates the secretion of gastric juice. Infusion of lemon balm, anise and chamomile accelerates the digestion of food.

Unloading diet

Restrictions will help to recover after the "feast of the belly". Arrange yourself

kefir day, it is permissible to drink 1, 5-2 liters and eat nothing. Drink a glass every 2 hours. If you suffer from constipation, use a fresh product that is 1-2 days old, with weak intestines, drink a 3-day-old drink.

Will help

curd diet … 500-600 g of cottage cheese is eaten per day in 5-6 doses. Prepare a rosehip decoction and drink a glass of the drink after each meal. You can just sit on vegetables for one day.