With the holidays right around the corner, everyone is thinking about how they’ll manage to stay fit during all the yummy dinners and sweet snacks. After all, it’s so common to gain a few extra pounds during the holidays without even noticing. While everyone is relaxing and indulging in scrumptious food, you should be focused on staying lean. Here are some tips that will get you through the holiday season without feeling guilty about overeating:

Plan Your Diet Using Meal Replacement Shakes

If you are already conscious of having a high protein diet or a low carbohydrate diet, then going for meal replacement may benefit you. These shakes and other meal replacements like soups are specially designed to replace one or two meals from your daily routine. They help with weight maintenance and loss.  A regular meal replacement shake contains about 200 to 400 calories and contains proteins and carbohydrates in a ratio of 2:1. They provide a balance of all essential nutrients required for the body. They are easy ways to diet and keep a check on your calorie intake. Meal replacement products are very convenient as you don’t have to think about what to eat or spend time preparing your meal either.

Managing Your Stress Level

Shopping for friends and family, managing finances, holding dinner parties, and dealing with relatives can be stressful during the holidays. Increased stress makes it easy to gain weight because of high cortisol levels. During holidays, unhealthy eating is inevitable so that’s why it’s important to keep everything else in check and prevent weight gain in every other way possible.

Fat Burning Supplements

Cutting down on fat intake is extremely crucial for staying lean. A diet makes the foundation of your weight loss plan it needs to be kept in check at all times. But you don’t need to starve yourself or take extreme measures to restrict your diet to stay fit. Studies have shown that Vitamin D aids insulin in its function and by doing so it decreases extra sugar in your blood by increasing the body’s metabolism. Vitamin D helps greatly in reducing fat from the body. Monounsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFAs) are short chains of fatty acids found in olive oil, dry fruits, peanut butter, etc. It is proven that MUFAs increase calorie utilization and especially aim to reduce belly fat. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is one of the best fat-burning supplements available. It also strengthens your heart and seems to have anti-cancer effects.

Fat-burning supplements (whichever ones you chose) increase metabolism and make you sweat more. So it becomes essential that you keep hydrating your body and support your weight loss.

Holiday Work Outs

You know that the festive season can drain your time and energy. If you just take out 15-20 minutes for a workout from your busy schedule and spend them on your fitness, you won’t have to worry about gaining any extra weight. Working out will also prepare you mentally to deal with stress. Mix and match your favorite cardio exercises and you are good to go.

It’s important that you do not get lazy and slack off from your exercise routine during the holidays. Fitness trainers advise that you wake up an hour earlier than usual and go for a walk or jog. A brisk walk before lunch is also recommended. Another trick is to always keep a pair of running shoes and hand-held weights with you. This way, whenever you get a chance, you can try to shed some sweat and extra weight with it.