New Year’s Resolution: How to Lose the Festive Weight and Keep It Off
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Christmas and New Year’s Eve are special, once-a-year occasions.
This is the time to spend time with your relatives and embrace family traditions.
But, when everything settles down, particularly in January…
The number of Google searches like “weight loss diet” spikes.1
And it’s easy to understand why.
Most people give themselves a free-for-all break over the holidays.
While those on especially strict diets even adopt an extreme attitude…
Going on a complete Christmas blowout.
Some justify their binge eating by saying:
“It’s not what you eat between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It’s what you eat all year round.”
But stepping on the scale makes even the most tenacious advocates of that quote rethink…
Was it worth it?
The unwanted outcomes of festive binge eating
One thing is sure – it’s one of the most stressful times for those who try to lose weight, get in shape, or stay in it.
No one wants to spend the holidays harping about what they can’t or won’t eat.
Or depriving themselves of all the tasty stuff.
Yet, the most delicious, mouth-watering, and tempting festive dishes are high in calories and carbs.
The outcomes of enjoying festivities can dramatically outweigh the temporary pleasure.
Along with lovely memories, the holiday season may leave you with extra festive pounds.
And once the food cravings suddenly return, it may feel hard to quit eating.
Then, the pursuit of the fastest way to bounce back begins.
And there is a scientifically proven and sustainable way to deal with all these outcomes.
But before exploring it, let’s investigate…
Can the festive season actually compromise months’ worth of progress?
Adding additional 2,000 calories is estimated to promote a four-pound weight gain in 7 days.2
With all that delicious food, it’s not that hard to hit an extra 4,000 calories daily.
It could bulge your weight by approximately 8 pounds.
But that’s not all.
You might be surprised by even higher digits when stepping on the scale after the festive season.
The excess carbohydrates consumed with the festive food are stored as glycogen which retains water.3
As a result, your weight can fluctuate by 2–4 pounds in a single day.4
Seeing those numbers on the scale, you may end up in…
A quest for an efficient and sustainable way to shed the festive weight
The so-called “crash diets” often follow Christmas and New Year’s Eve’s overeating.
Yet, on average, these radical diets last 15 days and often result in regaining even more weight.5
It’s not that easy to hop back on track and deal with the festive splurge.
The Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health conducted a study. The goal was to find the high-fat diet as the most efficient and sustainable way to lose and manage weight.6
The 20-week medical research found the following:
Also, another research study revealed the correlation between carbohydrate intake and glycogen. Switching to a low-carb diet replenishes glycogen storage. It results in rapid water weight loss.7
With many research studies around high-fat diets, the ketogenic (or simply keto) diet emerges as a sustainable way of eating for long-term weight loss and improved overall well-being.8
However, starting with the keto diet can be challenging.
With the information about the diet being all over the place…
Tracking not only the calorie intake but ratios of macronutrients…
Paying lots of money on costly specialty products to spend all your time in the kitchen, cooking…
All done just to see minor or non-existing results.
It can be difficult, or even impossible, to get everything right on your own.
Except if you have your own…
Personal weight loss assistant that supports every aspect of this festive-weight shedding diet
The Keto Cycle app comes in handy if you would like to:
- Know what exactly and how much to eat to get your body into a fat-burning state
- Eat only tasty meals with your favorite ingredients
- Never get tired of the same dishes with 25,000+ personalized recipes
- Have a personalized shopping list of affordable foods at your fingertips
- Spend as little as 15 minutes while cooking delicious, weight-shedding meals
Keto Cycle crafts an easy-to-follow meal plan personalized for you based on your answers and estimates how long it could take to achieve your weight loss goal. Plus, all the above and even more.
With Keto Cycle, you can easily track your progress and make necessary adjustments. As well as get personalized workouts and educational guides.
All you need to do is take a free 1-minute quiz.
8 sources
- https://www.gicare.com/gi-health-resources/increasing-calories/#:~:text=An%20increase%20of%20at%20least,one%20pound%20of%20body%20weight
- https://www.gicare.com/gi-health-resources/increasing-calories/#:~:text=An%20increase%20of%20at%20least,one%20pound%20of%20body%20weight
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25911631/
- https://pmj.bmj.com/content/66/775/363.long
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2081315/Trendy-crash-diets-New-Year-likely-just-15-days-end-women-weighing-MORE.html
- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2018/11/27/effects-of-varying-amounts-of-carbohydrate-on-metabolism-after-weight-loss/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25911631/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153354/
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I always thought that two days or even a week wouldn’t make me gain back all my weight. But I was shocked to see 10 lbs plus. Fat and water weight, now it makes sense. Interested to see how the keto will work for me.
I always wanted to go on keto, but it seemed to be too complex to make right. I am curious to try Keto Cycle!
It’s hard for me to quit eating once I feel like I’ve already blown through my diet. The cravings are back, and I can’t help myself but eat. I think too strict diets cause it. I will give it a try with keto.