Get Through Your Thanksgiving Dinner without Packing on the Pounds!

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November 2013 Newsletter

Get Through Your Thanksgiving Dinner without Packing on the Pounds!


During Thanksgiving, it's easy to go overboard with the calories. For some, the holidays can be worrisome as you may be tempted with many traditional dishes such as rich pecan pie and dense sweet potatoes.This Thanksgiving trim the fat and whittle down your waist!


Read more to get tips to have a Dukan friendly Holiday.


1. Start your day with a cup of Japanese green tea. The EGCG antioxidant found in your morning cup will kick start your metabolism and have you burning more calories throughout the day.


2. Before your Thanksgiving preparations begin, take your Appetite & Fat Control supplement—you can double up for the big meal!


3. Plan ahead and schedule a high intensity workout early in the day. The endorphins released will lower your stress and leave you feeling happy. Remember not to overcompensate with extra food for the moderate number of calories that you’ve burned.


4. If you are in charge of basting the turkey, forget about the brine, butter or oil—instead use low sodium chicken broth or white wine. Both will keep your turkey moist without all the fat and calories. Wine is a tolerated item for cooking on the Dukan Diet!


5. Most people serve high carb veggies such as yams or potatoes at their Thanksgiving dinner—serve low carb veggies such as green beans and asparagus. Asparagus acts like a natural diuretic—say goodbye to your water weight!  


6. Need to serve traditional dishes to please your guests? Have them bring desserts or main dishes—this way you won’t be tempted to nibble throughout the day—you will feel less guilt pitching the leftovers if no one wants a doggy bag.


7. Sprinkle cinnamon on anything you can—try it on baked pumpkin wedges, butternut squash chunks or use cinnamon sticks in your coffee after the meal. Make it Ceylon cinnamon as studies show that this type of cinnamon has blood sugar lowering properties.


8. If it’s your PP day, you may switch it to a PV day (therefore doing 2 PV days followed by 2 PP days)—that way you can enjoy turkey and fall Dukan vegetables.


9. To aid digestion, some nutritionists recommend the principle of food combining. Your typical PV meals are properly combined (Proteins + Vegetables). Mixing in carbs such as sweet potato, cranberry sauce or stuffing will slow digestion and cause bloating.


10. If you feel you overate—even the good stuff—start doing squats (in the bathroom if you want privacy)—within an hour of eating do squats for 60-120 seconds to get the sugar to go directly to your muscles in order to get burned off rather than being stored as fat.


Be realistic, and enjoy yourself—have small tastes of your favorites if you can’t resist (yes, even dessert if you’d like), but don’t go back for seconds. Eat only what you love—before you dive into that greasy bowl of whatever, ask yourself “Is it worth it?” Thanksgiving is only one meal after all, and it is unlikely to undo all your diet success—just make sure you’re back on track the next day!


Happy Thanksgiving!


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