Go Low Carb

Go Low Carb
To lose weight, you need to reduce your calories, but the point of this tip isn't to lose weight before a big holiday meal, it's to prepare your body's enzymes so you don't gain weight as easily.

It's considered a low carb diet when you consume less than 30 grams of carbs a day. When you change to a low carb diet, your body needs to switch its carb-processing enzymes to fat-processing enzymes. This process takes about 3-5 days. Once your body has made the switch, it becomes less proficient at processing carbs into stored fat. So when you eat a big carb-laden meal, your body just burns off the carbs to get rid of them rather than store them (you'll feel hot, but you won't store that unwanted fat).

Switch to a low carb diet about 3-5 days before your big holiday-get together and it will set your body up for less storage.