One-Step Holiday Eating Plan: Let Your Fork Do the Heavy Lifting

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Added: Thu. Dec 24, 2009 2:41pm
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If you’re committed to hosting or attending parties during the holidays, you will face a never-ending array of tempting food choices. If you’re not careful, the pounds you add are likely to become lifelong companions.

 

Some of us are very strict about our diets. We bring our own food in a plastic container and eat it while others enjoy the holiday fare. Others of us are perhaps a little too self-indulgent, denying ourselves nothing.

 

Here’s one simple step you can take at parties that will help you minimize your caloric intake:

 

Eat nothing except what you can put on a fork.

 

In other words, eat foods only where you can sit down and use utensils, including your fork.

 

The calories in those bite-size nibbles and finger foods you eat unconsciously while standing and talking with friends and acquaintances quickly add up. You can easily consume 600–800 calories solely from appetizers. The same holds true when you are preparing food for your own party. The little nibbles you take to “test” your appetizers count, as far as your body is concerned.

 

By limiting yourself to food eaten with a fork, you can minimize the accumulation of unwanted pounds during the holidays. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful weigh to start the New Year?