A holiday period awaits us, such as Christmas and New Year or Easter holidays. And here comes the dilemma for many who expect to overdo it at the table. Does it make sense to go on a diet before the holidays? Or is it better to wait, eat and diet after the holidays?
I found myself adopting both solutions, so in this article I will give you the pros and cons from my experience.

DIET BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS: PROS AND CONS

The benefits of dieting before the holidays.

• We arrive at parties with less anxiety, which therefore we can live with less guilt
• Thanks to the diet we will avoid all those invitations and those pre-celebrations in which we already begin to overeat
•  It makes us think that we are taking care of ourselves and that indeed, it is better to prevent
• It does not make us buy in advance (and eat in advance) the libations that are found in supermarkets a few weeks before the holiday season
• It teaches us to fill ourselves with little, since we have already made an eye with the portions, the tricks to avoid overdoing it at the table, the calorie count.
• By playing in advance and not feeling the weight of the extra kilos on us, we can choose with our heads. So not a crash diet, not a last-minute solution, but maybe a light low-calorie one that focuses on healthy dishes.

The disadvantages of dieting before the holidays.

• The diet before the holidays may not be suitable for those people who are prone to stress and nervous hunger: precisely because a sense of deprivation triggers after sudden hunger attacks in these subjects.
• It is not suitable for everyone: not everyone in fact holds a preventive diet, but instead prefer to repair the damage, when they see them turned into extra pounds. The result is that you risk doing it with little motivation, and therefore exposing yourself to unnecessary sacrifices.
• It often becomes an excuse to eat twice as much during the holidays.

But the after-party diet also has advantages and disadvantages. Here they are.