Lose a significant amount of weight between Thanksgiving and Christmas
If you’re craving Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, there’s a diet that could be the solution to your problems. Eating out over Thanksgiving and Christmas can be a dieter’s nightmare. The constant temptation, the tradition and the excitement, all wrapped up with a pretty bow, huh?
What can you do?
Should you ruin your vacation by defending yourself against temptation? Or should you accept it and make up for bad behavior in the New Year when just about everyone and their brother are determined to lose that spare tire?
the christmas diet
Consider doing the calorie shifting diet between Thanksgiving and Christmas. There’s a window of a few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas that’s a great time to make sacrifices and go on a diet. This way you can enjoy both vacations and still do a little damage control in between. Then, on January 1, get back on your diet wagon…if you must!
During those few weeks in between the two fattening holidays, you might consider doing the calorie shifting diet because this is a diet that has a lot of rave reviews of 7-10 pounds lost in 11 days through caloric cycling or dieting in zig Zag.
May will also do a cabbage soup/sacred heart detox diet.
What does this diet do?
Diet tricks your metabolism by making you weave and vary your caloric intake a lot and by giving you a specific diet menu to follow that releases fat-burning hormones. Plus, you’re eating 4 meals a day on this diet instead of 3, so your metabolism works that much harder and helps you avoid weight loss plateaus. This diet can be done at any time of the year, but doing it at the beginning of December can be helpful because:
1) You’ve eliminated Thanksgiving
2) You are going to be busy for a few weeks shopping and living before the real holidays arrive.
3) This diet works in 11-day rotations with 3 cheat days in between, so it can even pair well with some holiday parties.
Starting
Starting the diet around December 1 could result in a loss of up to 10 pounds by December 11.
Starting around December 5th could result in a loss of up to 10 pounds by December 16th.
After the holidays are over, you’ll probably lose more than the typical 5 pounds you gain during the holidays because most people lose between 7 and 10 pounds.
This diet is available online with two components.
1) A diet guide
2) An online menu planner
The menu planner allows you to simply print out your menu and head to the grocery store to get everything you need. Then you just eat what they tell you for each specific day. You will have 4 meals and you can eat them in any combination. There are no measurements or calorie counting and you just eat until just before you are full. Other guidelines are included, such as plenty of water, sparing seasoning, and there are even tips for handling parties or restaurants, which is a big dilemma for many dieters during the holiday season.
The best thing about this type of plan is that you can do it when you need it. If you hit your goal weight in January and then get a little bummed out on a holiday or after a comforting winter meal, you can lose weight quickly simply by running the menu builder again and doing another 11-day stretch.
If you’re reading this article too close to Christmas to start this diet, consider using it for your New Year’s Resolution diet.