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Soon it will be the holiday season and you will be presented with choices of where to eat, what to eat and especially, how much to eat.  These are questions that you may already be mulling around inside that head of yours and studies have revealed that most people go into the season with preset beliefs that weight gain is inevitable.  If weight gain is something you are committed to doing this holiday season then go for it and eat all you desire and actually go ahead and eat more than that.  While you are at it why don’t you just eat so much food that you will be forced to throw up. 

Okay, that may seem a bit extreme but to take from, an old joke, the punch line ”we have already established what your standards are, now we are just negotiating what you will do.”  The point is that if you are entering into the holiday season with the intention to gain weight as something that has to happen, then that is the end result you will manifest for your life.  You will either to decide to gain weight or do what you can to not gain any weight.  Here are some tips or suggestions to help you get through the holiday season without packing on ten pounds to the bathroom scale.

1. Cut back on the “stuff”.  You can go all out for a meal and make the home look like something out of a Dickens’s novel without laying out a spread of appetizers that offer little but diameter to your waistline.  Learn to shave calories where you can with little to no effect to the event you are gathering for.  Trim back on the cheeses, make dips from fat free sour cream where the flavoring can hide the fact that the fat is out for the holiday.  Go light on the gravies and leave the nuts in the dish.  Go easy on the things that are more or less just impulse eating.  Sure it all taste so good but there is no reason you have to eat it all.  If you must eat something only take a small portion and move on. 

2.  When you are roaming around the festivities hold a drink in your dominate hand. (No!  DO not use this as a chance to booze it up.) The fact that your dominant hand is busy will make you self conscious every time you reach for a fistful of calories.

3.  Chew gum.  Keep those teeth busy and your mouth full.  Popping 5 calories from a stick of gum in your mouth is better than 750 calories from an assortment of sweet stuff.

4.  Eat as you would any other day.  All too often people will anticipate over eating at a party so they starve themselves all day long.  What this does is to set you up before going to a party and then going on a binge night out overeating.  One suggestion would even be to stock up on FullBar to use before the event.  FullBar would allow you to show up and not be that hungry and actually it would help you from over eating.  Whatever you decide, eat before during the day and do not go to a party hungry.

5.  Do not drink alcohol all night long.  Booze is nothing but empty calories and who needs them?  If you must drink then do not make each and every drink one that has liquor as an ingredient.  Better yet just drink water.  Water will keep you from getting a DUI, it will help prevent empty calories and it will even help tame your appetite.

6.  If you must help out at the party, then help anywhere but in the kitchen.  In that place it is too easy to pop food into the pie whole and then do it again and again.  If you can’t stand the diet then get out of the kitchen!

7.  Wear snug clothing to the party.  This type of clothing will help you feel bloated if you over do it and will set off the alarm before the damage is done.  Snug clothing does not have to be too tight, but tight enough to make you think twice about that third slice of pie.

Here are some examples of the reality of your night out:

1 roll is equal to 150 calories, butter is 180 calories, chips will cost you another 150 calories, 2 cookies will hit you up for 240 calories……the list could go on until you make your New Year’s resolution, so just choose wisely for the holiday festive events.  Do not approach the season searching for the white flag of surrender.  Do not think that weight gain is something that the holiday season has to bring upon you.  As with everything in life, it is all about choices and the name of this website was not chosen by accident.

I CHOOSE THIN, what do you choose?