If you’re looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, there’s a diet that could be the solution to your problems. Eating on Thanksgiving and Christmas can be a dieter’s nightmare. Constant temptation, tradition and excitement, all wrapped up in a pretty bow, huh?
What can you do?
Should you ruin your vacation by fending off temptation? Or should you accept it and make up for bad behavior in the New Year when almost everyone and their brother are determined to lose that spare tire?
the christmas diet
Consider doing the calorie shift diet between Thanksgiving and Christmas. There is a window of a few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas that is a good time to sacrifice and diet. This way you can enjoy both vacations and still do a bit of damage control in between. Then, on January 1st, get back on your diet wagon… if you must!
For those few weeks in between the two fattening holidays, you might consider doing the calorie shifting diet because this is a diet that has many rave reviews of 7-10lbs lost in 11 days via calorie cycling or diet in zig Zag.
May will also be doing a cabbage soup/sacred heart detox diet.
What does this diet do?
The diet tricks your metabolism by making you zigzag and vary your caloric intake wildly and by giving you a specific diet menu to follow that releases fat-burning hormones. Plus, you’re eating 4 meals a day on this diet instead of 3, so your metabolism works a lot harder and helps you avoid weight loss plateau. This diet can be done at any time of the year but doing it at the beginning of December can be helpful because:
1) You have eliminated Thanksgiving
2) You’re going to be busy for a few weeks shopping and living before the real festivities roll around.
3) This diet works in 11-day rotations with 3 cheat days in between, so it can even pair well with some holiday parties.
Starting
Starting the diet around December 1 could result in a loss of up to 10 pounds by December 11.
Starting around December 5 could result in a loss of up to 10 pounds by December 16.
After the holidays are over, you’ll probably lose more than the typical 5 pounds you gained during the holidays because most people lose between 7 and 10 pounds.
This diet is available online with two components.
1) A diet guide
2) An online menu planner
The menu planner allows you to simply print your menu and head to the grocery store to get everything you need. Then you just eat what they tell you for each specific day. You will have 4 meals and you can eat them in any combination. There are no measuring or calorie counting and you simply eat until just before you are full. There are other guidelines included such as plenty of water, not using condiments, and even tips for managing parties or restaurants, which is a big dilemma for many dieters during the holiday season.
The best thing about this type of plan is that you can do it when you need it. If you hit your goal weight in January and then get a little down on a holiday or after a winter comfort meal, you can lose weight quickly just by running the menu builder again and doing another 11-day period.
If you’re reading this article too close to Christmas to start this diet, consider using it for your New Year’s Resolution diet.
