3 Tips on How Not To Over Eat During the Holidays

A lot of you have been asking me:    "How on Earth can you maintain the progress you've made with the upcoming weekend?"     Some of you ask jokingly, others are absolutely terrified!   I've given this some thought and here are a few of the most common tips for you to employ while celebrating this year.   It's not fool proof, but it's a better plan than what you currently have; which is no plan.

#1. Choose Smaller Plates when fixing your food.     If you chose a large dinner plate, you're more likely to fill it up, trying to not see any of the plate.  However, with a small plate you can fill it up.  Obviously the amount of food you have will not be the same.    This is mostly mental perception, not actual hunger.  This will also help you manage your portion sizes.  Not too mention, some of you DO NOT want to look greedy by having stuff fall all off your plate with family and friends watching you, whispering: "I thought she was on some kind of diet plan?" LOL You know how family does.  They can be our biggest haters and enablers.     So, eat off of a small plate.

#2. Drink from Tall Lean Glassware.     Again, perception is the key.  I have so many clients tell me: "I drank this 'big giant thing' of water".  Then we find out, it's only a 12 ounces container.    When your drinking out of a short, wide glass - your perception is 'you aren't getting enough to drink' so you tend to drink more... much more.     If I gave you a short glass, and the person next to you had a tall glass, what would you say? "Why did you give me this little ole' glass?" LOL  Even though, they may hold the same amount of liquid.     So, drink out of a tall lean glass.

#3.

Do NOT Go Back for Seconds! 

 

Fill your "salad plate" with EVERYTHING you want to eat for the entire meal.  Fill that plate with whatever you want.  Get your drink, your dessert (separate plate; but one serving) all in 1 single trip.  If you can't carry, you have no business with it! LOL 

 

You're more likely to over-eat if you can't see everything that your eating.  It's the same thing that happens when you nibble on a box of cookies (or whatever).  How many times have you sat and reached blindly into a dark box, over and over again.  Then eventually you say to yourself: "Holy crap, I ate that whole box!?"  It's because you could not see what you were eating. 

So, no going back for seconds!

I hope some of these tips help you.  But remember, NOTHING WORKS if you don't work it! So, do your part.