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Today I'm going to share some simple, yet very powerful steps to help you avoid adding to your waist-line during this holiday season. If you follow these steps, you may even go a step beyond maintaining and actually lose a little body fat over the next 6 weeks!

Question:

I find the holiday season a difficult time to stick to my weight loss goals. How can I handle things better?

A recent study found that even in those who only gain a kilo or two, those kilos add up over the years and many people in this group never lose their accumulated holiday weight gain. For this group, a decade of this small holiday weight gain can lead to an excess of 10 added kilos, for example from age 30 to 40!

So how do you become one of those who don't gain any weight during our most gluttonous time of the year? Is it lucky genetics that keeps someone thin?

The solution isn't some new miracle weight loss drug or the latest fad starvation diet, but rather a consistent, balanced diet in moderation, and a commitment to exercising regularly.

People need to realize that they can gain control over their metabolism. In fact, when you recognize that making wise food choices most of the time, combined with a consistent exercise plan, is the solution to our weight control woes, you too will make it through the holiday season without adding to your waistline. And you may even be able to lose a kilo or 2 between November and January 1st!

When you add a little lean muscle tissue (not bodybuilder muscle, but toned & shaped muscle), you begin the process of elevating metabolism. When you add to that better food choices (leaner proteins: seafood, chicken, turkey; quality complex carbs: brown rice, potatoes, whole grains; fibrous carbs: green salad) you are stoking your body's ability to burn many more calories.

Does this mean you can't enjoy the holiday celebrations?

Absolutely not! A little planning will allow you to eat like a King while enjoying your favorite traditions.

Much of what I do with my coaching clients from week to week involves identifying the challenges just ahead and thinking through strategies to meet those challenges. It's not discipline we need for success so much as good planning.

Planning starts with your weekly trip to the supermarket. It's a lot easier to muster the discipline to avoid those calorie-dense temptations if we don't even have them in the house, of course. But even more important than planning against is planning for, by stocking your home with tasty, nutritious food.

With the holidays fast approaching, you may already be planning out your gift buying, your travel, and your social calendar. Plan for your healthy weight as well.

When you're in the shopping centres, what can you do to keep your energy up without drifting into the food court's high-fat choices?

If you're taking a car trip, what healthy snacks can you bring along? If you're flying, you can pre organise with the airline for special types of food.

When you go to a party, plan a healthy snack before you leave so you don't arrive already hungry. At the same time, you might cut a few calories earlier in the day to allow for some extra calories at the party.

Think about how you will respond as co workers bring cookies, cakes and other high-sugar, high-calorie foods into work.

Instead of falling back on discipline, plan ahead to succeed. Keeping your Slim Secrets bars handy in all the above situations is a great way to plan ahead

Right now, get out your palm pilot or calendar and make a note of all your festive gatherings for the season, include family gatherings, social and business functions. Realize that this may account for 10 or 12 meals during those 6 weeks. Have fun, indulge in our cultural routine and celebrate with friends and family.

When you begin to change the way you view your relationship with food, understanding that quality food aids in long term weight loss and frequent and smaller portions support an elevated metabolism, you'll begin to seek a meal 5 to 6 times per day. And over 6 weeks during the holidays this accounts for 220 meals in total. If you're putting in the better choices most of the time, believe me, you aren't going to add to your waist line during those 12 indulging holiday meals!

The bottom line is you don't need to deprive yourself or experience all those guilty feelings when you decide to eat some of your favorite foods. Make wise food choices most of the time, add some resistance training and cardiovascular exercise into the mix, and you too will become one of those envied people who, "eats whatever they want and doesn't get fat!"

Remember it's all about making small achievable, sustainable and realistic changes that will help bring you the opportunity to have the best life you can possibly have.

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Have a fun week.

Sharon

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