When you are on a diet and have to go to a barbecue, you must adopt some strategies to avoid gaining weight or losing all the effort you made in the previous days.
First of all, you need to mentally prepare yourself for the barbecue, being determined to follow the tips below and avoid going to the barbecue hungry, as when you are hungry it is more difficult to resist temptations.
Some tips for maintaining your diet on a barbecue day, which are easy to follow, are:
1. Eat lean meats
Options such as chicken, rump, filet mignon, flank steak, breast and baby beef which have less fat and calories, avoiding picanha with a lot of fat and sausages, for example. However, you should not overdo the quantity, two servings are enough.
2. Eat salad while waiting for the meat to cook
Eating salad while waiting for meat
Fiber helps reduce your appetite, but it is important to avoid sauces and mayonnaise. The ideal is to season the salad with country dressing, for example.
3. Eat roasted vegetable skewers
Opt for vegetable skewers
Good options are onions, peppers, hearts of palm and mushrooms. They have the flavor of barbecue, but they are much healthier and less caloric options than garlic bread, for example.
4. Don’t drink soda
Drink water with lemon
Water with lemon or green tea instead of drinks like soda, beer and caipirinha. Alcoholic drinks contain a lot of calories and favor snacking. A good strategy is to drink just one glass of natural fruit juice or water with half a lemon squeezed in and not refill the glass.
5. Healthy dessert
Eat fruit or jelly for dessert
Choose fruit, fruit salad or jelly for dessert because they have fewer calories and are more nutritious. Sweets, in addition to having calories, hinder the digestion of food and create that feeling of a heavy stomach.
Another tip that can help you avoid overeating is to eat on small plates because it makes it seem like you are eating more when your plate is full, but repeating the meal is not allowed.
To help maintain focus, it is important to be distracted by other things and avoid thinking only about the deliciousness of the food. Having a glass of water on hand can help stave off hunger and hydrate the body, however, if this is not possible If you follow all these tips, remember that in order not to gain weight you need to use up all the calories you ingested and that is why it is advisable to do some physical activity.
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