Eating tips for winter seasons
November 29, 2008
Winter season is back now! Certainly our body is programmed to build up fat reserves in winter season. Thus it is very important to keep a note on your eating habits otherwise you may end up gaining lot of weight on your body. So read out the tips given below to dodge the season’s comfort food trap.
Make sure you eat your meals regularly. Aim for three small meals and two or three healthy snacks a day. Mind it that if you skip meal, your blood sugar levels dip, leaving your more vulnerable to comfort eating. Include low carbohydrate foodstuffs in your diet that gets digested easily and slowly plus helps in smoothening blood sugar fluctuations in your body.
Identify your emotions and feelings before you start eating something or the other. Mind it that before you reach for biscuits or a chocolate bar, asks yourself if you are really hungry. He the answer is no, ask yourself what you are feeling. If you are angry, acknowledge it. If you are lonely, phone a friend. In other words, find other ways of dealing with negative emotions.
Why don’t you maintain a food and mood diary? Remember that writing down everything you eat or drink, and thoughts or moods linked with your eating can really help you in making you more aware about comfort-eating habits and ways to control them.
Do you know that alcohol makes you hungrier and it’s a very bad idea to have it on an empty stomach, as it will loosen your inhibitions so you can’t exercise so much dietary restraint? Try to only have booze with food to avoid raid rises in alcohol levels.
Just make sure you keep in mind all the above written points to maintain a fit and healthy body all throughout this wintry season.
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