One Holiday Strategy to avoid weight gain

This will help you stay healthy during the holidays

Roast turkey, slow cooked ham, gingerbread, eggnog - with all these and many other delicacies, it seems anything but easy not to gain weight over the festive season. A recent study shows how you can easily and effectively avoid the extra pounds over the holidays.

Cake going on the hips

The tricky thing about it: In most cases, the extra pounds will stay on your waistline for the next few months. Year after year it’s one way how your weight increases. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

As the study shows, it is possible to maintain the current (December) weight without having to forego the delicious festive meals entirely.

The magic word here is intermittent fasting. In intermittent fasting - also called interval fasting or part-time fasting - periods in which you eat normally alternate with periods in which you completely or mostly abstain from eating. 

This way of eating will let you enjoy the many benefits of fasting without feeling cravings or weaknesses.

Intermittent fasting during the holidays: Cut calories for two days

22 healthy but overweight adults took part in the study. Ten of them were assigned to the diet group, the other twelve were the control group.

From mid-November to January 3rd of the following year, the diet group fasted two days a week and ate no more than 730 calories a day. To support them, they received shakes and supplements on the fasting days.

For the remaining five days of the week, the subjects were allowed to eat as...Read More
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