Trade Secrets

someone’s home, and someone else is serving up your
plate, cut each portion in half and just eat that. (Push
the other food around so the split is not so obvious.)
Oftentimes when I am in a restaurant, I do this right
away, get my ToGo box and load it up so I am not
tempted to eat the other half.
If you drink alcohol, try to intersperse your cocktails
with glasses of water: have a drink, have a glass of
water, have a drink, have a glass of water. This not
only helps lower your calorie consumption, it helps
you not overindulge in alcohol which is a huge trigger
for overeating.
One very simple action you can take to control stuffing
yourself is to make a fist and look at it, seriously
look at it. Think about how much you have eaten and
drunk so far in the day/evening and look at your fist.
That is the size of your stomach. Have you been kind
to your stomach so far today? Or, are you stretching it
out to accommodate your binging?
A critical piece during the holiday time is your exercise
regimen. This time of year because of the availability
of overindulgence, it is so important to stick
with your exercise routine. And if you are thinking
about waiting until the first of the year to start exercising,
you are making a HUGE mistake. The best way
to combat holiday eating is to practice giving back
to your body in the form of exercise and you will not
have as much inclination to the plethora of food available
to you. Exercise feeds the body with the natural
rejection of doing bad things to it. In other words,
when you exercise, you have far less tendency to put
bad food or too much food in your body. The brain
naturally reacts to the exercise with all those feel good
hormones that are produced and the need for food
for overindulgence and spoiling yourself simply goes
away. You don’t need it for that any more.
So, for the holiday season, consider giving the best gift
of all to your body: healthy foods in healthy quantities
with healthy activity!