Thanksgiving and Christmas being so close together, this can be a very challenging time for anyone not to gain weight. These are both known holidays that are known to have effects on people as they require eating a meal with the family. Then after that is all said and done, there is New Year's Which is a holiday that is a time for people to party with their friends and family and have a few drinks, but how do you deal with the aftermath of gaining 10 or more pounds? Here is a guide that will help you learn how to cope with your weight and help you to learn the healthiest ways to lose a few of those pounds in the following months.

Drink Water

Water is your friend and not your enemy when it comes to weight loss it can be hard to tell whether or not you are gaining weight or you have just put on some water weight. The best thing to do is drink plenty of water to get off any of the excess water weight that you many have gained over the holidays. Drinking alcoholic drinks and pop can cause you to gain more weight. It has been proven that the more sugar you take in the hungrier you will become. So it is best to drink water which will make you fuller and drop the water weight. Also some will suggest that you put a little lemon in your water because this will help you to expel some of that water weight, but you are only to use the freshly squeezed lemon juice and not any of the lemon juices that come in a bottle that people use to make lemonade.

Make A Food Journal

Food journal is not only for someone that wants to track their calories, there are many other benefits to making one. One other reason that you need to try and make a food journal is that you can keep track of what you ate and what kind of mood you were in that day. You can then learn how your emotions are attached to your eating. That is one thing that people fail to look at when they eat, is the real reason that they are doing it. Everyone is an emotional eater in one way or another and when you can figure out the real reason that you eat, the better you can control it. The other benefit that you can get from writing is that if write it, read it, and read it out loud the better you mind will take in the information about yourself. This is the same idea that you might have been told in high school or college that you are more likely to take in the information or keep points by reading it and taking notes and then reading the notes back to yourself. I know it may feel like a drag to have to study you, but there is a reason to everything that we do as humans and the only way to really know is to take a better look at the reason why.

Get Support For Weight Loss

Weight Loss is a journey that is best not traveled alone. Sometimes the reason that we eat is because we are bored or have no one to talk to. Others like a little friendly competition to try and help them lose the weight. If you try and lose weight on your own you are more likely to revert back to your old ways because there is no one that you have to be accountable to. This is something that everyone should try and do because it is proven to work as we are all looking for some kind of acceptance and for someone to tell us whether we are looking good or not. When we join groups of other people that are trying to lose weight they are less likely to make a bad judgment on what you look like as this something that they are struggling with themselves. There are some groups to think about joining Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and Sparkpeople. All these have forums where you can talk to others that are in your situation.

Exercise The Weight Away

Any of the fad diets out there that tell you that you do not need to exercise are totally wrong. You can lose weight by not exercising, but then you are left with excess sagging skin if you do not do anything to add some muscle for the fat that you are losing. Doing cardio is the best thing for you not only does it help you achieve faster weight loss, but it also helps to strengthen your heart. If you can spend 20 minutes of your day doing something extra try and get in a little cardio. You do not have to necessarily have to go to the gym everyday to exercise instead try to do some exercise DVDs at home. There are plenty of them on the market now that promote healthy weight loss and only take about 20 minutes a day to do. The other option is dancing, some people will say that they have no coordination and cannot dance, but this is just another excuse for you not to do exercise. There are not dance videos that show you step by step how to do each move and they start out slow and then you can choose to speed it up once you are ready.

No one ever said that weight loss would be easy, but if you make it fun then there is no way that you cannot lose the weight that you really want to lose. This year make your resolution come true and make weight loss happen while having fun.

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