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 Before the New Year holidays, when abundant feasts are expected, almost all people watching their figure are tormented by the same question: how not to get better and maintain health and at the same time not deny yourself goodies? Two festive weeks before and after the New Year are a riot of culinary fantasies and an endless "feast for the belly." It is very difficult to control yourself when the table is bursting with delicious dishes.
Scientists note that the norm for a healthy person is to eat 2500-3000 kcal per day per day. During the holidays, the calorie intake increases. New Year's table is always more than 10,000-15,000 kcal per person. Thus, having thoroughly fun on New Year's Eve, it is likely that in a few days the scales will show a couple of extra pounds.
How to plan your diet so that after the holidays you don't have to go on a tough hunger strike? Most nutritionists are sure that this can be done, it is enough to listen to their recommendations.
When to sit down at the table
Most often, before the start of the feast, people do not eat all day, saving a place for New Year's dishes. And at the same time, very many sit down at the table literally under the chimes. As a result, in the evening comes a frenzied uncontrollable hunger and, as a result, overeating, heaviness in the stomach, weakness. Such a "strategy" of behavior is fraught with not only weight gain, but also disruptions in the work of the gastrointestinal tract, stress on the heart and many others. etc. Therefore, nutritionists advise to sit down at the table as early as possible. If you start a feast at 18.00 or, in extreme cases, at 20.00, then by midnight you can not only be full, but also have time to get hungry and go to bed not with a completely full stomach. If you finish your meal long before midnight, diversifying the holiday with active leisure (dancing, games, socializing, walking), then the kilocalories eaten will partly have time to be spent.
How to reduce the calorie content of New Year's meals
For a long time, traditional dishes of the New Year's table have been all kinds of salads - Olivier, herring under a fur coat, Mimosa salad" and so on. If they are eaten in the form in which they are usually prepared, then in the end each of the salads will be incredibly high in calories.
If desired, the calorie content of the salad can be reduced by replacing some of the ingredients. For example, you can “throw out” potatoes from Olivier salad and replace it with boiled and diced turnips. In most cases, this salad will taste the same as if it were with potatoes. You can also replace potatoes with pumpkin or zucchini.
Herring under a fur coat it will also do well without potatoes: any tasty vegetable (radish, turnip, pumpkin, cabbage) can become a "fur coat"; there are also recipes for this salad with apples.
Another ingredient that adds fat to many salads is mayonnaise... It is known that even "light" mayonnaise has about 30% fat content, and this is 200 kcal in the total amount of calories in a dish. Therefore, mayonnaise should also be replaced. To do this, you can take yogurt without fruit additives, preferably low-fat (1-1.5%), add salt and sugar (on the tip of a knife) and mustard (to taste). This dressing tastes like mayonnaise, but unlike it, it is really "light".
Many New Year's salads use a component such as sausage. It can be easily replaced with less fatty boiled chicken breast... This change will make the salad taste even better.
In order to eliminate the need for a total replacement of a huge number of ingredients, you should think about preparing salads mainly on a vegetable basis (the vinaigrette, Greek salad, salad "Brush", Caprese salad and many others etc.).
What is the best drink for the New Year
Of course, it is almost impossible to do without champagne on New Year's Eve - this is already a good old folk tradition. But before you drink a bottle or two of this drink, you should know that any alcohol is the fourth source of calories: the first is proteins, the second is fats, the third is carbohydrates and, finally, alcohol. The stronger and sweeter the drink, the more high-calorie it is. Those who cling to their normal weight should opt for dry wines. Dry white wine is safest for the waist. Red dry wines contain bioflavonoids, which are recognized as useful by today's medicine. They can be used even by those who have problems with the cardiovascular system.
But drinks such as sweet wines, liqueurs, liqueurs, martinis and more are a direct path to weight gain. They should be discarded. Champagne is also desirable to choose dry or semi-dry.
Lotova R.S.
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