Can we start the new year by keeping faith with our purpose of losing weight but without a diet?
From January 2nd onwards, people often want to go on a diet as a good resolution. On average, the holidays bring from 2 to 3 kilos of excess weight, the tables weigh on our waistline and everywhere we hear a kind of continuous siren, a call to arms, or at least a sense of duty.
DIET, DIET, DIET.

People have already booked the gym or plan to do physical activity every day, and in all likelihood you too are among those who are now groping in the dark looking for any diet plan to lose weight: right.

Instead, it is possible to continue eating panettone and sweets and lose weight anyway.
That is to lose weight without a diet.

Let’s start with some preliminary considerations that must be made to look objectively at the extra pounds.

START THE YEAR BY LOSING WITHOUT DIET

1. YOU ARE NOT FAT AS YOU THINK: You have only eaten too much for a few days.
   It may be enough to go back to the old diet and be a little more careful to safely dispose of the food that is now cementing on the stomach.
2. IT IS NORMAL TO EAT A LITTLE MORE ON HOLIDAYS:  everyone does it, you did it too, don’t blame yourself.
3. IF YOU DON’T RUN FOR SHELTERS, HOWEVER, YOU WILL GAIN MORE AND MORE WEIGHT. 

So somehow this situation has to be resolved. Now you have to moderate yourself and think about your health.
Given these premises, the answer to losing weight without a diet is one, indeed, there are two: either one eats less, or works harder with physical activity. Or the third way: it does both.  Let’s say that sticking around is a bit of a cyclical fact, and that’s how you have to take it: it’s not a punishment, but another eating behavior. Before we allowed ourselves some liberties, now we eat less or burn more. Here is the super trick to avoid a real diet and lose weight anyway.

HOW TO START THE YEAR WITHOUT DIET: THE MAKEUP

The formula is: Eat for lunch what you eat for dinner.

That is: for lunch you have to eat completely, and not a snack, even if you are in the office, rather better.
At lunch no salads, no sandwiches, no grilled sandwiches.
The lunch meal must include the following foods.

• A carbohydrate-based food of your choice: either rice or pasta or bread or potatoes or legumes.
  So far it’s clear, isn’t it? You don’t have to mix carbohydrate sources with each other. Obviously if you eat crackers, biscuits, bread sticks, these count as bread or pasta. Legumes are also included in carbohydrates.
• Optionally a protein food. By protein food we mean a food that contains only proteins, and not carbohydrates and not even a lot of fats. You can choose between lean meats, lean dairy products including ricotta, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, light mozzarella, light spreadable dairy product, white fish, egg whites or at least two medium eggs, lean meats such as turkey breast and bresaola.
• Plenty of vegetables.
• Limit oil and seasonings to a maximum of one tablespoon. If you want to treat yourself to something at the end of the meal, then eat a couple of walnuts or a piece of dark chocolate or some almonds: in this case, you will halve the oil to a teaspoon per meal.
  For dinner, on the other hand, you will eat a vegetable soup or a vegetable dish seasoned with a maximum of one tablespoon of oil.
  A small sacrifice that you can observe 6 days a week, leaving you only one day with a freer evening.
  And here the extra pounds, keeping breakfast unchanged and focusing on simple snacks (a fruit, a low-fat yogurt) will melt like snow in the sun.
  See also: 5 habits to lose weight from next year.