If you are trying to maintain a beautiful and slim figure, you are probably dieting all year round and limiting yourself to high-calorie, sugary, or overly fatty foods. That being said, you are probably exercising, moving more, doing your favorite sport. Christmas meals are plentiful and high in calories. It can make you afraid to eat Christmas and worry about gaining weight.
All these fears are unfounded. They only cause more stress and tension in your body that you don’t need, especially around Christmas, when stress is already at a higher level, according to various studies.
We try to reassure anyone who is afraid to reach for their favorite food at the Christmas table, fearing that they will gain weight from a spoiled diet.
See why it shouldn’t bother you at all. Why is the fear of gaining weight at Christmas unfounded?
1. Christmas and New Year holidays are a relatively short period.
The few days before Christmas when you eat delicious treats shouldn’t bother you from a dietary point of view. The rest of the time, you just stick to your diet and exercise regimen and everything will be in place. Gaining weight and real fat requires daily long-term dietary irregularities that you probably won’t do. So don’t be intimidated by a few weekends if you’re on a strict diet the rest of the time.
2. Enjoying junk food is sometimes just a part of life.
You can’t constantly punish yourself for eating something tasty and high-calorie. You don’t have to constantly blame yourself for sometimes getting bored with something “forbidden”. We are all human, and we are tempted by delicious food and favorite treats. The stress that this constant guilt brings to the body is no less than the “junk food” itself. So just accept that you are human and sometimes have weaknesses. Surrender to them and move on. All you have to do is not make the use of unhealthy and high-calorie foods in your daily routine. If you only do this on holidays or on the occasion of a holiday, it will not affect your slim figure in any way.
3. Food is not just food – it is pleasure.
When it comes to food, it should not be taken as a punishment. Food is a pleasure. A diet perceived as punishment can never be followed in the long run. At some point, your psyche will break down and you will succumb to temptation. And if you limit yourself too much and punish yourself, there is a great risk of swallowing everything in the refrigerator after a long restriction.
This is why it is important to treat food as a pleasure. There are many ways to turn healthy eating into a pleasure that you don’t consider a life sentence. A healthy relationship with food is just as important as our relationship with people, our relationship to ourselves. Accidental pleasures are not what makes you feel bad.