How to lose weight after Christmas and other holidays?

I hope for you that you have not yet stepped on the scales to check how many kilos you have gained from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day: I give you some advice as a friend, don’t do it now.
You practically still have food on your stomach and fearful water retention due to excess fat, salt and sugar.

However, you can imagine that after New Year the scales will not be lenient: in general we take on average from one to three kilos between Christmas, New Year and Epiphany.

There is some good news: yes, you weigh more, but you have a higher metabolism thanks to the extra calories.
This means that if you put yourself straight away, you will be able to dispose of the kilos acquired within the first two weeks of January, without dragging them along until spring.

The other good news is that if every kilo equals at least 7200 calories more (9000 for a kilo of fat), I don’t think you overcharged 21,000 calories in three days, so much of the excess weight you feel is liquid. and those, you know, get lost quickly.

In short, let’s look at the glass half full and not half empty, especially if the other half was a liqueur and we drank it: the Christmas pounds can be disposed of quickly.
Here are some simple strategies to say goodbye to them.
I divide them into short-term strategies and long-term strategies.

LOSE WEIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS  IN A FEW DAYS

1. For lunch and dinner, eat a salad dressed with a teaspoon of oil, lemon juice or apple vinegar or one of the soups that I show you in this guide , plus a 100 gram tin of natural tuna, or one hundred grams of grilled tofu , or two eggs, or a pound of grilled chicken or turkey or 150 grams of cottage cheese. Finish the meal with a baked apple.
2. Make two snacks of two clementines and rewarded after dinner with a low-fat Greek yogurt with a teaspoon of honey.
   This was for three days until New Year’s.
3. Alternatively, for lunch, eat a simple soup with a teaspoon of raw oil, and for dinner one of the salads described above.
4. Take advantage of the holidays to walk at least an hour briskly in the open air.
5. Limit sugar to one small daily sgarro for breakfast. For example, 50 grams of panettone or pandoro, but associated with 200 ml of skimmed milk or a jar of low-fat white yogurt.
6. Do 10 repetitions of ten quick squats every day, dividing them into two sessions: 5 in the morning and 5 in the evening. Alternatively, add a half hour of jogging to the hour of walking or do this 5 minute fat burning workout. 
7. Leftover food? freeze it, mince cured meats and cheeses in single portions that you will need in the future to enrich savory pies, meatballs or other. If they are sweets, give them away, cook nougat to give as a gift for New Year’s Eve, melt them into biscuits and muffins or homemade chocolates for the children’s Befana.
   But don’t eat them yourself.

LOSE WEIGHT IN JANUARY.

1. Prefer grain cereals to white and refined foods, even for pasta.
2. If you haven’t already, reduce the sugar to a few treats every now and then, to eat in the morning.
3. Alternate pasta and rice with legume dishes or a baked potato: eat pasta and rice only three times a week.
4. Drink more water, but fewer sugary drinks.
5. Try to prefer natural foods, i.e. vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat or fish, nuts and seeds, whole grains to any industrial product.
6. Sign up to the gym, to a dance class, to Pilates, to yoga, to swimming, whatever you like: the activities are so many and if you are not the bodybuilding type even dancing the tango will make you burn more.
7. If you are not the gym type, organize yourself at home by buying some equipment: a treadmill or an exercise bike, two weights of half a kilo each, an exercise mat, a stepper. At least half an hour a day, use them to reshape your body! It doesn’t take anything to build a small gym without even having a lot of space at home. Read here. 
8. Keep a journal of your weight and progress every day.