Minimise the festive season damage

Minimise the festive season damage

Rich, sugary food might be calling out to you at celebration time. But here ‘s how not to pile on the calories.

Here it is the festive/wedding /season again. and here you are, as usual wondering if it’s wise to take full advantage of those exciting tables laden with food, or do your best to keep away.

The truth is, between dussehra and new year’s day, day most of us will put on two to three kilos of height. It really is hard not being indulges when the weather is so good and everyone is having so much fun. Which puts us in that awful situation of guilt: we eat and we hate over selves for eating. But there’s no reason to feel that way. Festive are meant for celebration; they are meant to give you a break. They are happy times and they include happy foods for that very reason.

So here’s how to indulge and beat the guilt.

Problem#

Too much dessert

Sweets are difficulty to resist. it’s so easy to pop barfi into your mouth when it is just lying there in plain sight –and then a second one and then a third

Solution

1.     The idea is to eat not gorge. Eat mindfully, not mindlessly. Remember the first bite of the dessert is always the best. Have one or two bites more to satisfy the taste buds. Then stop. Any more will qualify as agreed.

2.     Limit the type of sweets you eat.

3.     Make some goodies at home, like gurpatti, besan laddus, paneer chenna murki…….

Because here you can control the amount of sugar as well as the quality of the ingredients

4.     If you simply can’t resist calories- laden dessert, then cut down on other carbohydrates in your meal. For example, you could just have the soup, salad, and proteins. Avoid the rise, bread and roties and then eat dessert. The point is to limit the damage.

Problem

v  Too much food

As though it weren’t bad enough that you are surrounded by rich food this season, the change of weather also whets your appetite. So there you are, drowning in buter chiken and guilt.

Solution

1.     Learn to eat smart. Choose slow digesting food over the day.

2.     Pears are in season around this time. Their scrumptiously delicate flavour and crunchy texture is a boon, but the bigger advantage is the fact that they contain the sugar called laevulose the sweetest of all known sugars which insure that a sweet tooth  without guilt. So when you are craving a sweet treat in the evening try a yoghurt and peer smoothie the sweetness from the pear will satisfy your sugar carving and the protein in the yoghurt will keep you satiated and hold you over until dinner.

3.     If you are going to a big party in the evening and the plan on gorging on the rich food, it’s bad idea to starve yourself all day in anticipation. You’ll end up revenues and eat more than the usual.  A better idea to eat a low fat, healthy snacks before you step out say a soup and toast or a bowl of yoghurt with some nuts or may be a boiled egg, sandwich  

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