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BEWARE: Overindulgence this christmas!!!
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13-12-2011 4:49pm#1
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Ha thats act a good idea!i know its only one day a year.. but seriously what is the point of weeks of healthy eating, only to eat all and more of what you had tried so hard to avoid, in ONE day..and then the domino effect continues.. and one continues with extreme over indulging for the intervening week until the new year, where you vow to never do it to yourself again and hence those dreadful new years resolutions! i am breaking the cycle this year, cant do it again:rolleyes:
Well, that's it - the only illeffect is that it'll set off a chain of slip ups...
1 day doesn't make or break a diet
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Thanks for the positive thinking, but knowing how vulnerable i am around a house of savory treats and chocolate goodies, I dont trust myself. I suppose im a famine or a feast girl.. added to the fact one cannot get out and walk in bad weather!0 -
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I could never even in my days of weighing 14 and a half stone could I eat THAT dinner after THAT breakfast.
I love to fast before dinner on xmas morning of have a really light breakfast of fruit and yoghurt.
You need to be staaarving to enjoy the christmas dinner fully.
Also I agree with others, it's the 'sod it' attitude that persists until new years and then the diet malaise and lax-ness that creeps into Jan, then Feb..then March, that's what will undo all the hard work.0 -
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emeraldstar wrote: »At the very end!
Yum, that's good eatin'.
Touche!
Funny thing is, it's all in singular form. Where's the seconds then I ask 0 -
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Christmas brekkie smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and champagne at about 8am (young kids)
Christmas dinner at about 3pm and I'm not too bothered, you can only fit so much food in your belly.
Turkey and ham sambos at about 8pm
These meals are fine... but it will be the snacks in between and alcohol that I'll need to watch.
The worst will happen if I start aimlessly foraging, I "might" try to plan 3 snack sessions in the am and 3 in the evening spread out every 90minutes and try to limit the kcal's so I can still forage...but with some forward planning
BUT... there is way more to health than a good diet and kcal balance... the psychological benefits from letting go for one day and truly enjoying time with your family and friends will bring so much more benefit and far outweigh worry about your consumption. So while I will loosely watch it I won't go mad.
But thinking about it, maybe I could cut back on alcohol (currently only on dirt day @ 3 / 4 units but I was planning on ramping that up over xmas) and perhaps I could scrap my dirt day next week and the week between Xmas and new years to help out overall and maybe my dirt day in the first week in Jan.
Great thread op!0 -
Who on earth has a big dirty fry on Christmas morning? I usually have a tiny breakfast, maybe some fruit or a homemade cranberry muffin, then nothing until the big dinner at 3ish. After that I'm so full I don't need any more proper food for the rest of the day, though I will struggle to fit in a decent amount of chocolate and wine 0
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I don't know, definitely not me. Actually I don't think I have anything normally, maybe one of my mom's brown bread scones at most. We usually have friends over around noon for drinks and of course there's heaps of nibbles to go along with them. There's usually a tin or two of chocolates open at this stage also which I can't refrain from picking at (not that I'd want to!). If I were to have a big dirty fry-up I wouldn't want any dinner at all. Which would be a shame as that's one of the best parts of the day (and the next dayWho on earth has a big dirty fry on Christmas morning? I usually have a tiny breakfast, maybe some fruit or a homemade cranberry muffin, then nothing until the big dinner at 3ish. After that I'm so full I don't need any more proper food for the rest of the day, though I will struggle to fit in a decent amount of chocolate and wine). 0 -
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Don't usually bother with any real breakfast on but a Christmas morning fry - up is a fantastic idea. Well done OP, this thread has succeeded in encouraging me to eat more on Christmas day!
But seriously as others have said - one day won't make or break your "diet". The downfall of many is the all or nothing attitude i.e. after everything i ate yesterday i might as well start on the 1st of Jan now! Then when it rolls around you have a hangover from nye and just need carbs!!0 -
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I love the Christmas morning fry!
We have it at about 9am, but we won't eat dinner until about 8pm, because we have people over in the afternoon for a liquid lunch with snacks :pac:
Christmas would not be the same without all the gluttony! I know it's hard to 'recover' after a day like that but it's worth it. I'm going to eat really well until Christmas Eve and have a couple of days rest. We work hard enough the rest of the year 0 -
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The thing that jumped out at me about the opening post was that FAT was highlighted as if it was a bad thing!
Deary me, we'll never change with that attitude.
everyone knows that eating fat makes you fat like eating french fries makes you french and eating green beans turns you green0 -
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I understand that this is the ONE day where it is ok to go all out.. but im the kind of person that does NOT have the control to get back on track the next day, after a spectacular overdose of food. I want to feel good over christmas and I dont want it to be all about FOOD FOOD FOOD. that is not a balanced diet..Tbh I only enjoy the first few chocolates and then it becomes a habit of constantly grazing over food, alternating between sweet and savory treats so that my brain is never satisfied! I just googled what 5lbs of fat (the average weight gain looks like) and was shocked :O Here are some tips i found which seem practical!
Avoiding Christmas weight gain is to resolve to make smarter choices, rather than just depriving yourself. Consider these healthy eating tips:
1. To help prevent overindulging – stomach-ache, bloating and other stomach discomfort, eat slowly, try putting your fork down inbetween bites, and stop when you are feeling full. Its takes 20mins for the stonach to signal to the brain that its full.
4. Don’t starve yourself all day to justify eating more at dinner. Keep your blood sugar levels balanced by eating smaller meals/ snacks during the day which can ward off the temptation to overindulge later in the day.
5. Savour your foods. Choose foods that you really love to eat. [/B][/B]Eating slowly not only allows you to enjoy and be thankful for your food but helps prevent over eating.
Avoid eating bread before your starter. (esp garlic bread!)
Go for a walk once your meal is over to help digest your food and think about what a wonderful experience you just had – and the company and conversations that contributed to making it an enjoyable experience
Follow the 80:20 rule. Eat well 80% of the time and enjoy a ‘cheat meal’ once a week.
Lastly, if you succumb to eating a dessert, enjoy every mouthful! Guilt is wasted energy, increases our cortisol levels which is stored as fat near adrenals (waist)!
Im thinking of the christmas sales in Jan, and the thoughts of buying a size larger is so offputting!If any one has any healthy recipes please post them up. Thanks guys, beat the christmas bulge begins here 0 -
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I understand that this is the ONE day where it is ok to go all out.. but im the kind of person that does NOT have the control to get back on track the next day, after a spectacular overdose of food. I want to feel good over christmas and I dont want it to be all about FOOD FOOD FOOD. that is not a balanced diet..Tbh I only enjoy the first few chocolates and then it becomes a habit of constantly grazing over food, alternating between sweet and savory treats so that my brain is never satisfied! I just googled what 5lbs of fat (the average weight gain looks like) and was shocked :O Here are some tips i found which seem practical!
Avoiding Christmas weight gain is to resolve to make smarter choices, rather than just depriving yourself. Consider these healthy eating tips:
1. To help prevent overindulging – stomach-ache, bloating and other stomach discomfort, eat slowly, try putting your fork down inbetween bites, and stop when you are feeling full. Its takes 20mins for the stonach to signal to the brain that its full.
4. Don’t starve yourself all day to justify eating more at dinner. Keep your blood sugar levels balanced by eating smaller meals/ snacks during the day which can ward off the temptation to overindulge later in the day.
5. Savour your foods. Choose foods that you really love to eat. [/B][/B]Eating slowly not only allows you to enjoy and be thankful for your food but helps prevent over eating.
Avoid eating bread before your starter. (esp garlic bread!)
Go for a walk once your meal is over to help digest your food and think about what a wonderful experience you just had – and the company and conversations that contributed to making it an enjoyable experience
Follow the 80:20 rule. Eat well 80% of the time and enjoy a ‘cheat meal’ once a week.
Lastly, if you succumb to eating a dessert, enjoy every mouthful! Guilt is wasted energy, increases our cortisol levels which is stored as fat near adrenals (waist)!
Im thinking of the christmas sales in Jan, and the thoughts of buying a size larger is so offputting!If any one has any healthy recipes please post them up. Thanks guys, beat the christmas bulge begins here
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El_Dangeroso wrote: »I could never even in my days of weighing 14 and a half stone could I eat THAT dinner after THAT breakfast.
I love to fast before dinner on xmas morning of have a really light breakfast of fruit and yoghurt.
You need to be staaarving to enjoy the christmas dinner fully.
Totally agree. It'll be a little slice of lovely, light, toasted brioche and a bit of butter with a cuppa for Xmas day breakfast for me this year. ~250 cals in total. I love to be absolutely ravenous for Christmas lunch so I can just plant my face in the plate.El_Dangeroso wrote: »Also I agree with others, it's the 'sod it' attitude that persists until new years and then the diet malaise and lax-ness that creeps into Jan, then Feb..then March, that's what will undo all the hard work.
Agree too.
OP and others fretting, you can eat nommy things at Xmas with also being mindful of your weight-loss plans. Last year, I decided at the end of November to shift that pesky stone and a half of extra weight I was carrying. I can't explain it but that was the time for me to start, I was just ready.
I could have given up at Xmas but I sat down and thought about it. I figured out which foods I really love and can't do without at Xmas, and which I don't really care for but graze on because they are there.
So it was in with stuffing, roast spuds, turkey, baked ham, mashed spuds, a bitta trifle and chocolates.
Out with calorific booze, using Xmas as an excuse to drink full fat coke in copious amounts every day (restricted this to Xmas eve, Xmas day, Stephen's Day, NYE and New Year's Day), eating lots of tea cakes and madeira cake, eating loads of nuts and other salty snacks, and eating 10 chocolates in one go.
Oh and I seriously cut down on biscuits, they are cruel for putting fat on the ass, and most people just eat them listlessly without even thinking about it.
It's helps that Xmas isn't a very boozy celebration in my house, and that we don't start on the Xmas food til the 22nd or 23rd of Dec and finish up on the 6th of January. And there are some Xmas foods I hate like Xmas pud, fruit cake and mince pies.
The result of all this? I only gained back 2lbs of weight over that approx. two week period, and had lost that a week after the Xmas period ending.
I got to eat all my favourite Xmas treats with abandon, I just cut out the stuff I could do without. One year on, I have lost the weight in a sustainable way. I will take the same approach to Xmas this year and every year.
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Hang in there guys! There is one full week of eating healthily ahead, i plan on staying really healthy this week so then i suppose i can relax a little bit more on the big day itself without the guilt Chocolate, cakes and biscuits will be the ultimate deal breaker for me..so going to avoid the boxes like the plague and get some of the strong dark stuff in lidl that is always mentioned here. I would prefer to pile on in the dinner than the snack attack that happens that day!extra helpings wins overs a few chocs!Laying off the bubbly a bit this year, its all about choosing the healthiest option where there is on, and we will be ok. I understand there are peeps who can eat and eat and never gain an ounce, and for seriously i envy YOU!!and if you never have to think or worry about what you eat then Christmas time is a time when your exercise is eating!! but for others, myself included, this time of year is a serious struggle. Being surrounded all the time by temptations you had tried to manage throughout the year can be really tough. hang in there! Hope this helps!
Don't turn into a pudding this Christmas!
Celebrity personal trainer James Duigan's top tips to prevent you piling on the pounds (without foregoing fun)
Counting Elle Macpherson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley among his clients, Duigan is clearly doing something right. Here, he shares the ten golden rules that will help minimise the damage of the festive season binge - but still let you party the whole month through. Have fun, enjoy yourself - and don't feel guilty, he says.
James Duigan says a little extra effort can go a long way during the festive season splurge
The season of excess is upon us, and with it the inevitable weight gain buffets, canapés and chilled champagne can bring.
But with a little effort and just a touch of self-control, you can minimise the damage. It doesn't have to be torture either. Bodyism's James Duigan, health and fitness expert to the likes of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Elle Macpherson and Hugh Grant, is confident we can weather the calorific storm that is December without turning into a Christmas pudding.
Little things can make a big difference, says James. Anything you can do will help.
Here, James imparts his 10 top tips for fighting off the flab without forsaking the fun.
All James' rules are zero-excuse, easy to follow guidelines that need no props or special equipment and require little extra effort.
JAMES' GOLDEN RULES
1) KEEP MOVING
If you know you're going to overindulge, sets yourself little forfeits. Do 20 squats before going out to eat a heavy meal.
James says a neat trick he does with clients who like a drink is to get them to do ten squats for every drink they have. 'Not at the time,' he quips, 'But when they get home.'
Three drinks means 30 squats. It won't burn off all the calories, but it makes you think about what you're consuming and makes you accountable.
Just use your own body weight - adding a prop is only likely to make you find an excuse not to do them.
A handful of nuts will stop the sugar from the alcohol entering the bloodstream so quickly
2) HAVE A SNACK BEFORE YOU START DRINKING
Alcohol is largely sugar. Eating some fat or protein before you drink alcohol slows the rate that sugar enters the bloodstream, which will prevent a spike in your insulin levels and help with the glycaemic load. It'll help you avoid putting on so much weight, and as a side-effect, means you'll get drunk less quickly.
Before you go out, have a little snack, preferably a handful of nuts, with berries if possible. Natural unsalted nuts are best, but if you don't have any around, any nuts will do - it'll be infinitely preferable to going out drinking on an empty stomach.
A little pot of natural yoghurt is also good. It lines your tummy and again helps slow down the rate the sugar goes into your bloodstream.
3) EAT AS MUCH OR AS MANY GREEN VEGETABLES AS YOU CAN
Try to eat as many healthy greens as possible throughout the festive season. If you really can't manage green vegetables regularly, take a fibre supplement. It keeps you regular and your system cleaner than if you avoided greens all month. Your body will keep working more efficiently despite the indulgence elsewhere.
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4) MAKE THE FIRST DRINK AT ANY PARTY A NON-ALCOHOLIC ONE
You're likely to be thirsty when you have your first drink, so you'll drink it much more quickly. Downing a glass of wine is a sure-fire way to have you raiding the canapé tray in minutes. Quench your thirst first and you'll find it much easier to sip your second drink and make better choices with food.
Make your first drink at the party a non-alcoholic one - it'll quench yor thirst so you don't down your first wine so quickly - and stop you drunkenly lungeing for the canapés
5) BREAKFAST WELL
Eat a healthy, hearty breakfast - it will fill you up and you'll be less inclined to really overdo it later on in the day, whether that be with the post-breakfast chocolate, a heavy lunch or the buffet table. The worst thing you can do is go to a drinks party starving hungry.
6) KEEP HYDRATED
Drink plenty of water - it's so important.
Christmas is all about cheeses, quips James. But seriously, a little cheese will stop you overindulging in too many sweets
7) WHEN YOU HIT THE BUFFET, EAT PROTEIN FIRST BEFORE SWEETS/CAKES
As much as possible go for the protein options at the buffet and keep away from the really sweet things - doughnuts and cakes.
But if you are going to eat them, a good mental strategy is that if you are going to have something sweet to eat, promise yourself you're going to start with protein.
Have some cold meats, some cheese. Not only will it satiate your appetitie so you don't hit the sweets on an empty stomach, but it will help prevent a spike in insulin levels.
As for cheese, James says it's a great indulgence. 'Christmas is all about cheeses... (ha ha). It's yummy, it's a treat, but it's not packed with sugar, so it's preferable to eating cake. It's rich too, so a little bit is satisfying.
'I get cold meats - beef, turkey, ham - and wrap them around the cheese. You can add a tomato too - it's delicious. If you're feeling really freaky, you can pick out the filling from the sandwiches and leave the bread - I'm OK with that now!'
9) AVOID SUGAR-LADEN MIXERS
Mixing your spirits with fizzy drinks like cola give you a calorie double-whammy. Choose vodka over wine, and mix your spirits with soda water, and a squeeze of lime if it suits.
10) TAKE A FISH OIL
Possibly the most important rule of all: take a fish oil supplement regularly. They're called essential fatty acids for a reason - they're essential. From a party point of view, they are great for your hair and nails. But they also lubricate your whole body and nourish your system.'
AND FINALLY? ENJOY YOURSELF!
Food should ever be associated with bad feelings or guilt. Whatever you choose to eat or drink at the pre-Christmas parties, really enjoy it. As for Christmas Day itself - don't feel bad about eating Quality Street and tucking into your Christmas lunch. Just relax, have fun and enjoy.0 -
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