Eating light between Christmas and New Year’s parties without forcing ourselves into restrictive diets or special diets is possible: moreover, how can we behave so that our choice is healthy and does not bother us?
In this article we see a very simple method to stay fit and eat light almost without feeling the weight of a real diet, and thus be able to allow yourself free meals on purely holidays.
The effectiveness of the method is based on a simple observation: what is the macronutrient that we consume the most during the holidays?

Well, you can do this calculation even at home : they will turn out to be carbohydrates, because among first courses, appetizers, side dishes, Christmas desserts (much more sugary than summer ones, think of nougat) and dried fruit, the bulk of the excess calories it comes from carbohydrates. Next we see the fats. This combination is obviously deleterious: not only do we have high glycemic load meals, but these meals also have a lot of fat: think of fries and sauces.

So let’s recap: on holidays we have excess calories, excess carbohydrates, excess fat. How to eat lightly between holidays?

Eating fruit is a bad idea. Those who try to eat only fruit with the idea of ​​eating light make the situation worse, because the body is already out of a good feast of carbohydrates, and its glycogen stores are saturated. Why keep eating carbohydrates, the simple kind? Fruit-only days can be low-calorie at best, and of course they help us if we ate a lot of fat: but after these sugar-filled days, the last thing we want is to keep eating sugar.

So what to do? Simple: between one day of celebration and another (therefore the days from 27 to 30 December, or from 2 to 5 January), we can observe a simple ketogenic diet but with low fats.
That is, we can only eat: vegetables (no potatoes, no legumes), especially green leafy, in unlimited quantities, lean meats (chicken, veal, turkey, bresaola), fish, low-fat cheeses (low-fat yogurt without sugar, ricotta, quark, flakes of milk), eggs (maximum two per day) and egg whites. To sweeten we can use the sweetener.

I summarize what has been said in a simple scheme:

Breakfast : coffee or tea, water acidulated with lemon, a low-fat yogurt without sugar with two or three almonds or an egg whites omelette.
Snack: Cucumber, fennel and ginger juice.
Lunch : Grilled chicken or turkey (or tofu) with steamed spinach and a whole tablespoon of oil.
Snack: centrifuged with carrot, celery and fennel
Dinner : steamed fish with broccoli sautéed in a pan, a total tablespoon of oil, or cottage cheese with mixed grilled vegetables.