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Manage Your Sports Diet During The Holidays

February 26th, 2009

If you are concerned about maintaining your sports diet during the holidays while confronted with awesome desserts and sweets, these dieting tips can help. These are simple ideas, but often difficult to follow because of the overwhelming temptation of holiday sweets.

For starters, you should always eat healthy meals. Resist the normally high fatty foods that are provided at holiday dinners such as sweet potatoes, turkey and glazed ham. One way to do that is to eat a healthy non-fat or low fat meal at home before you visit a party. Because desserts are often extremely high in refined sugar, you must remember to eat very small portions of sweets. Have a cookie to celebrate the occasion, but do not sit down in front of a plate of them. Whether it is pie, cookies or chocolate candy, it is easy to over endulge. As always, continue to drink plenty of water while on a healthy sports diet to control the weight especially during the holidays.

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