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How to Lose Weight During the Holidays Without Losing Friends

It happens at every party: You swear that should be eating that way - healthy."
you'll stick to your diet and you're Outside buddies, who provide
really sticking to your guns, popping encouragement and help 24/7, also can be
crunchy baby carrots into your mouth like part of your weight-loss network. "I
chocolate bon bons while everyone else is recommend having someone to talk to
loading up on nachos and guacamole dip. before, during and after you go to these
Then someone - your mother who has been events," Harrison says. "Buddying up
slaving over the hot stove all day, your during the holidays is crucial for people
Uncle Mike who has polished off three who are alone because you get
martinis, your best friend Mary who has companionship. You get someone on your
been trying to lose 25 pounds for the team. is one way to do this. It is ideal
last 25 years - steps up to your plate for a lot of people because it's like
and fills it with an extra-large helping one-stop shopping."
of guilt. Once you have a buddy, you can work
"Come on, live a little. Just eat one together to change the menu for future
piece," your sister says as she tries to parties. "Make the holidays less about
stuff the stuffing in your face. "It's food," Cipullo says. "Meet for appetizers
your favorite, and I made it just for and drinks, not for formal sit-down
you. I'll be hurt if you don't at least dinners. Go ice skating or go for coffee
try it." or go out to a restaurant and choose your
And before you know it, you're having own food. Go out and look at holiday
your and everyone else's cake and eating lights. Go for a manicure or a pedicure
it, too. with your friends so you can sit around
Family and friends, the people you expect and chat and catch up."
to support you, are the very ones who are And if your willpower does buckle under
most likely to sabotage your diet, either the mistletoe, remind yourself that it
consciously or subconsciously, and that's doesn't have to be feast or famine. "When
why you need a neutral buddy to get you you learn to ride a bike, you sometimes
through not every wedding, birthday, bar fall off," Harrison says. "And when you
mitzvah and holiday party, experts say. learn, you don't learn to ride in a
"When we sit down at the table, we're all straight line; you weave back and forth
sort of comparing how we shape up with and that's how diets should be."
the other people there," says Henrietta WeightLossBuddy.com's Top 10 Tips for the
Harrison, a psychotherapist and life Holidays
coach in Westport, Conn. "We're all 1.Find a buddy to help you get through
looking around the table to see who looks the event and call or e-mail the buddy
older than last year, who looks thinner, before, during and after the party. For
who looks heavier." more information on the buddy system, go
And when people indulge, adds Laura to
Cipullo, a registered dietitian and 2.If you are a guest, eat a small
certified diabetes educator with offices low-calorie snack before you go to the
in Manhattan, New Jersey and upstate New party at the time you usually eat dinner.
York, "typically they want others to be If you are the cook, eat a small
'bad' with them and indulge, too." low-calorie snack before you prepare the
But as Cipullo and Harrison point out, meal.
just because you are offered the piece of 3.Eat smaller portions of everything on
homemade pumpkin pie doesn't mean that the table.
you have to eat the whole thing. But it 4.Nibble your way through the party.
does mean that you can understand why you 5.Use the three-bite rule: If someone
are being asked to eat it and then enlist insists you eat a food that's not on your
your family and friends to help everyone diet, only eat three bites of it. That
beat their bad eating habits. way, you can tell the cook how much you
"It can be threatening to a partner when have enjoyed it, and everyone is
the other loses weight because the satisfied.
thinner person will become more 6.Ask whether you can take a piece of pie
attractive to other people," Harrison or cake home to eat later. Savor every
says. "When you lose weight, particularly bite by pacing yourself, only eating a
if you are a woman, your confidence little bit every day.
increases and it's empowering. This can 7.When you turn down a fattening food,
upset the balance of power because as she substitute a lower-cal food in its place.
gets more assertive, she becomes For instance, instead of the pumpkin pie
confident enough to change jobs, run for with whipped cream, eat an apple.
the PTA or even go back to work." 8.Just say no to that extra helping of
By making your family and friends your stuffing. But do it politely.
buddies, everybody wins the weight-loss 9.Change your holiday traditions so that
game, Harrison and Cipullo say. "The activities, not food are the center of
buddy system is a good idea," Cipullo attention.
says, "because the entire family can be 10.If you do blow your diet, don't punish
on the same page. If mom and dad are yourself and don't end your diet. Every
eating a certain way or one child is day is a new day.
eating a certain way, the whole family




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