The secret to maintaining your weight while enjoying a delicious holiday meal

The Lunar New Year holiday is considered a major challenge for dieters. Holidays often lead to more fatty foods and alcohol consumption than usual. Let's explore ways to enjoy holiday food while maintaining your diet.

 

◇Just taste the 'holiday snacks'

 

Snacks often enjoyed during the holidays are a common cause of weight gain. Yakgwa and fruit are prime examples. Yakgwa is made primarily from flour and sugar and is fried in oil. One yakgwa contains approximately 135 calories, meaning eating two is equivalent to eating a bowl of rice (approximately 300 calories). Holiday snacks like sikhye (Korean rice drink) and yugwa (Korean sweet rice drink) that are heavily flavored with sugar, syrup, or honey, or fried in oil, are also high-calorie foods. These should be avoided when trying to lose weight. Dried persimmons and hangwa (Korean traditional sweets) are also high-calorie foods.

◇Don't fill your stomach with fruit

 

Fruit is often consumed in abundance due to its perceived health benefits, but this is also a mistake. Fruit contains a lot of carbohydrates, and excessive consumption can cause excess carbohydrates to be stored as fat. Eating fruit when hungry can actually stimulate appetite. For weight management, it's best to limit yourself to one or two slices after a meal.

 

◇It's good to know the calories in rice cake soup rice cakes

 

Tteokguk, a representative Seollal dish, should be consumed in proportion to the calories consumed in rice. One ladleful of tteokguk (12 rice cakes, 100 kcal) is equivalent to the calories in one-third of a bowl of rice (100 kcal). If you've been managing your weight by eating one-third of a bowl, you only need one ladleful of tteokguk. If you've been eating two-thirds of a bowl, you should have two ladles of tteokguk.

 

 

◇Reducing oil when cooking

 

Beyond simply avoiding high-calorie foods, minimizing the use of oil when cooking can also aid weight loss. Cooking meat with fat and skin removed and using lean cuts like sirloin and tenderloin can reduce calories. Since the more flour a meat is coated with, the more egg and oil it absorbs during cooking, it's best to keep the flour coating to a minimum.

 

It's better to choose boiling, steaming, grilling, or braising rather than frying or stir-frying. If absolutely necessary, cook quickly over high heat. When frying pancakes, preheating the oil beforehand can reduce oil absorption.

Meanwhile, any weight gained rapidly during the holiday season should be lost within two weeks. Rapid weight gain isn't actually fat, but rather an increase in glycogen, a type of polysaccharide. Glycogen is excess glucose stored in the liver and muscles, and after two weeks, it is converted to fat. If glycogen is converted to fat and accumulates in the body, weight loss becomes even more difficult.

 

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Looking at this, I can already gain 3-4 kilos without any problems.

Two yakgwas are enough to make a bowl of rice, lol

Tteokguk is like that too, lol, but what about songpyeon..

 

Songpyeon is so delicious lol

 

Even the sikhye that is said to be a digestive aid is a lump of heat..

 

A holiday full of delicious food... Weight management

I'm already worried