Don't save up for a big meal

The worst thing you can do during the holidays is starve yourself all day in preparation for pigging out at dinner or a party. It's a common practice, but not a healthy one. In fact, it may be the best way to pack on the pounds and store more fat!

Instead, pace yourself and have small meals throughout the day so that your metabolism is regulated and balanced. If you're famished when you arrive at a party or at the dinner table, the food becomes nothing more than gut-fill, and you pay no attention to what you're eating and how you're chewing and digesting. Your brain (always twenty minutes behind your stomach) finds out much too late that you're stuffed.

Small meals throughout the day mean a healthier holiday.