How to Eat Christmas Lunch on a Diet - 5 Steps
For those wanting to avoid putting on too much weight over the Christmas period then there are a number of measures you can take to not just avoid putting on the pounds, but in fact lose weight over the course of festivities. Step 1: Cooking and eating the turkey Eat plenty of roast turkey. Turkey is one of the healthiest white meats, it's incredibly low on fat and calories yet exceptionally high in healthy protein. It's not the turkey that makes you gain weight, it's all the snacks and binges that pile up on top, but Christmas dinner is a particularly all round healthy meal. If you avoid the skin and smothering it with butter before roasting, a slice of turkey breast on average contains 150 calories and 2g of fat, where as a slice of red meat would be roughly 170 calories and 6g of fat. With plenty of zinc and nutrients that will help you sustain a healthy immune system, try not to include ready made stuffing with a lob of butter, but instead you can make you...