Avoiding Weight Gain during the holidays.

For many Americans, Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks while overindulging in turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, along with all the traditional holiday meal favorites we’ve grown to love since childhood.
Don’t use the holiday as an excuse to gain weight. You’ll pay for it later on when you try to take off the extra pounds gained during the holidays. Before you pull your chair up to the Thanksgiving table, here are some tips on keeping your weight down and staying healthy before and after that Thanksgiving feast:
• Try to eat lighter, healthier meals, rather than skipping meals to allow you to eat a big Thanksgiving dinner. You’ll be less likely to overeat if you do.
• Get some exercise in, even if you can only go on a 20-minute brisk walk.
• Stick with drinking water. This will stop you from drinking sodas and alcoholic beverages that contain a lot of empty calories.
• Eat slowly. When you eat slowly, it gives your body more time until that feeling of satisfaction kicks in, which stops you from going for second helpings.
• Take it easy on the gravy and other sauces, which are typically high in calories.
• Try to fill up at least half of your dinner plate with vegetables, while leaving a quarter of your plate for turkey and reserving the final quarter for mashed potatoes and other starchy foods.
• Do the best you can, but don’t stress over it. Keep damage to a minimum, have a great time with family and friends and enjoy your food.
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