Road to Diet Tradition
  
Traditional moments in life have
added more pounds to people than the sea has salt. Let's take
a look at just a few traditional holiday meal menus at a glance:
New Year's - platters of appetizers, punch and
high calorie alcoholic drinks
Valentine's Day - milk chocolate, dark chocolate,
white chocolate, death by chocolate
Easter - ham crusted with a thick brown sugar
rub, candy Easter eggs
Fourth of July - Bar-b-que in the form of ribs,
steer, poultry, pork or lamb. Tubs of potato salad,
baked beans, hot rolls and homemade ice cream.
Thanksgiving - Roasted turkey, stuffing or dressing,
cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie. Fried turkey is becoming
quite the rage in the deep South.
Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day - Roasted goose,
stuffing or dressing, cranberry sauce, eggnog, fruitcake.
These are the very basic holidays
that most Americans celebrate. Most people will 'ease up on the
diet and enjoy the day' on these special celebration days. Trouble
is, they don't watch what they eat a few days before or after the
splurge.
So....should holidays
be banned in favor of health food? Should we start serving
rice cakes and carb bars for Thanksgiving? Please don't make a grown
woman cry.... The key in avoiding weight gain is to watch
those pre-and-post celebration days and the dieter should be fine.
If the dieter foregoes this option, unfortunately, they may see
a 10 pound weight gain (or more) over the coarse of a year which
can be attributed to those few little holiday splurges.....
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