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Soups, lean pressure clouding your judgement! breast with lots of veg, and fruit for turkey all help keep your diet on track. dessert will
drinks If you’re heading out for Christmas or a house party, be sure to eat beforehand – even if it’s just a smoothie or a banana. Arrive at a party feeling full and you won’t end up wolfing down every canape you can find. These traditional festive trimmings are basically just sausages wrapped in bacon, laden with 19.3g of fat and 289 calories per 100g serving. So why not swap for Parma ham wrapped around asparagus?
The fibre content of the asparagus helps improve digestion, and
100g of it only contains
13 calories. Add in approx
4 slices of Parma ham and you’re still under
10g of fat and around
136 calories. Stilton cheese is not a dieter’s friend – 100g contains 362 calories and 31g of fat. And adding a glass of port bumps up the calories by another 165. On the other hand, 100g of goat’s cheese contains 320 calories and 25g of fat. Pair with grapes instead of port, and you’re consuming less than half the
calories. The main difference here is the type of pastry. Vol au vents are made with puff pastry, which has 551 calories and 38g of fat per 100g, while filo pastry contains just 299 calories and only 6g of fat
for the same size portion. s face it – no one feels like joining a gym at this of year. However, in order to maximize the effects of an and slip comfortably into that dream dress, you do o exercise for around 40 minutes, four times a week, now until Christmas.
But the good news is that you can choose any activity you enjoy – swimming, fast walking, dancing, sex – even Christmas shopping! Anything that gets your heart rate up and makes you break into a sweat will burn fat and calories. Here’s how many calories common activities burn in 40 minutes. Aerobics: 385 Cycling: 265 Jogging: 400 Brisk walking: 215 Swimming: 400 Dancing: 300
Sex: 150 It may be festive, but yule log is also shockingly fatty with 453 calories and 22.8g of fat in every 100g portion. But swap it for the Italian holiday favourite panettone instead and you’ll only consume 287 calories and 5.3g of fat for the same size serving.