Tips for keeping trim over Christmas

Another convert to the 5:2 diet. I lost 2 stone and I have maintained the loss for 18 months. It broke my 'eyes bigger than tummy' syndrome - and my tummy was large!

Come Christmas day, I will tuck into lunch with gusto and comfortablyand happily ignore food, and most sweet or alcoholic drinks for the rest of the day.

I have found that I can eat more or less anything I fancy, but just far less of it than I used to. This means I don't have special low calorie foods for me, and miss out on what everyone else it having. I just eat small quantities and never have second helpings. If you wait about ten minutes after you have finished eating you become aware that you're actually full. Previously I would have just gone on eating until I was stuffed.
So don't miss out on anything and feel deprived, just eat little amounts. Avoiding eating between meals is also a good idea.
Good luck!

Lynne....yes its never a good idea to feel you are denying yourself....to label foods good and bad. In this day and age of cheap mass produced food, I much prefer little and good and will always take home-made over shop bought if possible.

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No mince pies until 1st December is about as far as I go. Luckily I’m not tempted by shop ones - I prefer the trad little homemade ones, with comparatively thin pastry.

7 year old thread and Christmas is coming again, but nothing really changes does it. Probably wise words of advice then as now.
My problem isn’t actually Christmas but afterwards when I finish up all that is left over.