{"id":1002,"date":"2010-12-13T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnygeneproject.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2010-12-13T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:02:25","slug":"fight-the-urge-to-splurge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/fight-the-urge-to-splurge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight the Urge to Splurge-How to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Claus is at the mall?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Christmas music on the radio, in the stores?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Holiday parties galore? Check, check, check!\u00a0 <em>That\u2019s right, the holiday season is here and it\u2019s time to celebrate!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parties at work, parties at school, parties with friends, and oh yes, parties with the family!\u00a0 One thing we know for sure is that food and drinks will definitely not be in shortage for these festive events, but that <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>cannot be our excuse to splurge<\/strong><\/span>!\u00a0 Waiting for those New Year resolutions to roll around is not an option, some research has found that <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>we never lose the few pounds we gain during the holiday season<\/strong>!<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is your year to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/free-consultation.php\">fight the winter weight gain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><em>Here are some tips to help you conquer the urge to splurge<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1010\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnygene.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/eating-too-much-pie.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1010\" title=\"eating too much (pie)\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnygene.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/eating-too-much-pie.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)&#8217;s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>What You Can Control<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a high fiber snack and some water prior <span style=\"color: #000000;\">to<\/span> the event so you aren\u2019t starving!<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to bring a healthy dish to the party.<\/li>\n<li>Make only one trip to the buffet.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the smallest size plate available.<\/li>\n<li>Load up your plate with high fiber foods, such as raw vegetables and salad.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on being social at parties.\u00a0 Enjoy the company of family and friends, while strategically positioning yourself out of arms reach of appetizers.<\/li>\n<li>Drink a full glass of water between any alcoholic drinks.\u00a0 Drinking in moderation is key, 1-2 drinks for women and 2-3 drinks for men.\u00a0 Drinking too much is a sure segue to eating too much.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Incorporate exercise, especially the days prior to, the day of, and the days after each event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>What You Can\u2019t Control<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When choosing food from the buffet table, keep an eye out for the colorful foods and beware of the white creamy foods.<\/li>\n<li>Choose small portions \u2013 Try small spoonfuls of the other higher calorie foods only if they are your favorite.\u00a0 Be sure to savor you food!<\/li>\n<li>Choose your sweets wisely, each dessert can have 200-1200 calories!<\/li>\n<li>Be careful with the appetizers, these little bites of bliss can easily add up in a matter of minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Have your \u201cexcuses\u201d ready.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the best lines is that you are just plain full and maybe you will try some in a little while!<\/li>\n<li>Try to avoid taking home extras of those tempting (high calorie) foods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sour cream dips, cheese balls, little sausages and meatballs, sweets, chocolatey desserts, and alcohol will all be present at the holiday affairs, and so will you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a happy and healthy holiday season and do your best to fight that urge to splurge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Emily Barr, MS, RD, CNSC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want More?? 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Check, check, check!\u00a0 That\u2019s right, the holiday season is here and it\u2019s time to celebrate!\u00a0 Parties at work, parties at school, parties with friends, and oh yes, parties with the family!\u00a0 One thing we know&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/fight-the-urge-to-splurge\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[111,68,623],"tags":[620,73,110,74,66,621,201,622,393,81,189,82,83,624,625],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emily-barr","category-health-topics","category-holidays","tag-conquer-cravings","tag-educate","tag-emily-barr","tag-empower","tag-fiber","tag-fight-the-urge-to-splurge","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-holiday-weight-gain","tag-lose-weight","tag-prevent-diabetes","tag-registered-dietitian","tag-skinny-gene","tag-skinny-gene-project","tag-tips-to-fight-winter-weight-gain","tag-winter-weight-gain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90Iz0-ga","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}