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Still feeling full from Thanksgiving? It’s time to take control before the holidays, Christmas and New Year are here. The good news is that you can take control by following a easy menu and tweaking your lifestyle to some extent.

A little fiber in your diet can enhance digestion. Keep the sodium levels of your food low as sodium leads to water retention and may encourage puffing of your body. Include more of potassium rich food as potassium helps in getting rid of excess water from your body.

Include more fluids in your daily diet. This means you need to consume more of fruits and vegetables. However, avoid alcohol as it tends to dehydrate your body.

Yogurt & Berries

Once air from any source enters your digestive system, you may feel bloated. So eat slowly with your mouth closed and substitute carbonated drinks to fresh juices. Similarly, yogurt with probiotics helps in enhancing your digestive system and helps relieve bloating.

By making such simple tweaks to your daily lifestyle, you can stay fit through the holidays!

Do you wish to weigh the same right from Thanksgiving to the New Year? It is possible to enjoy holiday eating while you weigh the same till you welcome the New Year. Here are few tips in helping you to do so…

All you need to do is some planning and thinking about holiday food a little differently. First you need to plan your food properly. Fix your plate size and ensure that it has more of vegetables and protein rich food.

Remember to eat before you go for any holiday food invitation. Having a small piece of fruit with some peanut butter or a small container of yogurt will help you reduce the temptation of overeating.

Picking and choosing is a better idea to follow if you wish to maintain your weight. Instead of choosing all the three desserts, choose the one that seems tempting and limit yourself to just one. Avoid binging and overeating.

Alcohol is loaded with calories. So it is wise to substitute alcohol to fresh juices like fruit juice or vegetables juice.

If you are the host or hostess of a party, you need to take control. Prepare broth based soups that are loaded with vegetables as your first course. Switch from buffets to meals that are served as this will help pace-eating.

By following such simple strategies you can help yourself and ensure that your weight is under control.

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Here at Good Elements we love to eat.   We recognize of course that it is healthier and more cost effective to eat at home.   After all, where do you think all of those great  Good Elements Monthly Recipes come from?  But eating out can be a great pleasure - but one that may come with hidden risks to the waistline.

A new study in Review of Agricultural Economics has compared fast food and table service meals at restaurants.  The results of the study show that both types of meals are larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home.  Now here’s the surprise - the typical fast food meal is smaller and has fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant.  Seems intuitive yet counter-intuitive at the same time, right?

Fast food was found to be more energy dense than food from a table service restaurant, but fast food meals also tend to be smaller. As a result, the typical fast food meal had fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant.

Now here’s where it gets interesting.  Table service diners were more likely to reduce their food consumption during the rest of the day, most likely because of the difference in energy density of the food they consumed.  As a result, fast food may ultimately result in more calories as fast food diners tend to eat more throughout the day.

Not all table service restaurants are created equal, and not all diners are either.  But the moral of this Good Elements blog is - be mindful of what you consume when eating out.  Eating incorrectly when eating out can be more damaging to the waistline than that fast food that you avoided.