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It is not uncommon to take 2 or 3 pounds during the holiday season. In fact, the British daily The Guardian made a synthesis of 7 studies, which shows that we would take 877 grams during the holidays, as the New Year, Christmas and New Year meals are the occasion to ) eat well.

Petits fours, foie gras, smoked salmon and blinis, cheese platter ... the period is not really conducive to the diet. So it's not at Christmas that we're going to lose pounds, but we can nevertheless avoid taking them.

Dr. Patrick-Pierre Sabatier, a nutritionist from Très Bien merci !, a delivery service for home dishes, gives us 10 tips for not growing at Christmas and during our Christmas meals.

1- We practice a physical activity é

There is no secret: to avoid getting bigger at Christmas (or throughout the year), you practice physical activity. Not worth going to sweat in the gym, an hour of walking daily is not bad (= 240 kcal). The Christmas period being often the occasion to ask a few days of holidays, one benefits. A walk alone or with family, it always does good. Above all, it allows us to stabilize our weight. One can easily measure his activity with a connected bracelet.

2 is s hydrate well

The equation is ultra simple: the more you drink, the more you eliminate. So you keep your bottle of water under your arm and drink 1.5 liters of water a day. If this rule is equally valid for the rest of the year, it is even more so during the end-of-year celebrations when our bodies need to eliminate all toxins stored during extended meals.

3- We quickly e petits fours in sup é ritif

It is often at the time of the aperitif that one swallows real caloric bombs. During the meals of the New Year's Eve, Christmas or New Year's Day, the little ovens, too greasy and too salty , are zapped. Instead, let yourself be tempted by miniature vegetables that are dipped in white cheese (0% of course!). Less caloric and much healthier, possibly seasoned with aromatic herbs and / or spices.

4- Drink champagne, cider or wine

Champagne and cider are the least caloric alcohols (50 kcal for cider, 70-80 for champagne and 100 for red wine). So we avoid the strong alcohols type whiskey or vodka (which rise to more than 200 kcal / glass). And if we want to go even further, we try to make his champagne flute last all the aperitif and we limit ourselves to 2 glasses of wine during the meal.

5- Take a snack before the meal

Finally, the Christmas meal is a bit like when shopping. If we go there empty belly, we tend to jump on everything that presents itself, to swallow anything and therefore to grow. So, a yogurt and / or a fruit 2 hours before the start of the festivities , allows us to limit the damage.

6- Use only once

The end-of-year celebrations are an opportunity for us to eat refined dishes. Foie gras, smoked salmon, caviar, capon , as many products that one does not consume every day. As a result, one often has the eyes bigger than the belly and one resists several times. Error. In order not to get bigger during the holidays, you do not turn back. As for the first plate, it must be sufficient (not to have regret) but reasonable nevertheless.

7- We eat slowly

We give our brain time to record that our stomach is no longer hungry (20 minutes on average). So, we chew well and eat gently. And this rule does not apply only to Christmas Eve or Christmas! Eating slowly allows us to digest well .

8. We do not take dessert sugared ed

As salt facilitates water retention, sugar facilitates weight gain by storing fat cells. So we do not spoil all the efforts we have made for the moment and opt for a healthy dessert, style fruit salad or clementine.

9- We do not turn around the buffet

Oscar Wilde is not right, the best way to resist temptation is not to yield to it. Buffet or aperitif, we resist! No need to look out of the corner of your eye for sofas and other temptations that call us. All the more reason for not yielding: one will be proud to have resisted.

10- You do not skip meals

After a hearty Christmas meal, you tend not to eat the next meal. Bad idea ! To want to skip a meal, all you earn is to be even more hungry to your neighbor. So we do not eat much (just a soup for example) but we eat anyway.

* The brand of home delivery of diet meals V ery well thank you! also proposes dishes of parties low in calories. On the menu: salmon carpaccio and radish salad, cold marinière with crayfish or scallops and compote of aubergines with preserved lemon. In short, enough to please his taste buds without frustration.