A healthy Christmas, a merry Christmas

However, celebrations can turn into a nightmare if one is not careful. Keeping this in mind, here are the five ideal ways for you to have a healthy yet joyful Christmas celebration.

1. Know your limits

Eating to your heart’s content is what signifies Christmas celebration. However, always remember to know your limits in order to not put yourself through a painful post-Christmas stomach ache, not to forget the added extra kilos. No matter how yummy the meat looks like, how delicious the cookies are, or how mouth-watering the champagne is – avoid eating beyond your appetite, because remember your normal life re-starts right after the grand festive week.

2. Keep up the exercise

The biggest mistake people commit during the Christmas celebration is forgetting to follow their everyday workout regime. It’s true that gyms might stay closed throughout the festive week, but that doesn’t necessarily bar you from exercising. You can try walking, running, jogging, and yoga that don’t require a gym, and ensure that you don’t become a victim of holiday sloth and contribute to gaining weight.

3. Keep a check on your alcohol consumption

Christmas and New Year parties are incomplete without alcohol. However, too much alcohol, besides the traditional Christmas dinner that is always filled with excessive calories, would be unhealthy for your body. Furthermore, alcohol makes your liver work overtime because the human body takes longer time to process alcohol. It also makes you lose control, which means right after you drink too much you won’t be watching what you grab to eat; thus adding on to the calories intake.

4. Eat your favorites first

Christmas means getting invited to a lot of dinner parties as well as hosting the same for others. This means innumerable food choices, and a whole lot of confusion. However, the tip for this situation is to go for the ones that always make your must-have list. Be selective when it comes to trying unfamiliar dishes because you don’t want to regret not having these must-haves.


5. Have a loaded breakfast

Skipping breakfast isn’t an option while celebrating Christmas. In order to kick start your day on a healthy note, have a heavy breakfast filled with protein and carbohydrates (bread, scrambled eggs, boiled potatoes etc). A heavy breakfast helps you kill calories throughout the day that you’re bound to gain from the overloaded traditional meals and also stay fresh and charged up throughout the day to enjoy the festivities.

Christmas is awaited by everyone throughout the year. While we lament on the end of another year the joy of celebration that is filled with love and optimism prepares us for another year ahead. However, staying healthy and fit is significant to the utmost in order for us to keep having such happy and memorable celebrations.

We hope our ideas will help you celebrate Christmas on both a happy and a healthy note, and make it as memorable as possible.

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