How To Celebrate Easter And Not Gain Weight

2023 Author: Lucy Dunce | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:49

How to celebrate Easter and not gain weight

An integral part of the Easter holidays is the preparation of sweet pastries - cakes made from yeast dough and cottage cheese pies. The calorie content of Easter cake is on average 250-500 calories per 100 grams, and the calorie content of 100 grams of cottage cheese Easter with dried fruits is from 300 calories. The average serving size is 200-250 grams. You can easily eat 500-1000 calories in one sitting on a cake with tea. And that's not counting colored eggs, holiday salads, snacks and alcoholic beverages.

Holidays are not a reason to overeat, all the more so even such a "high-calorie holiday" as Easter can be met with diet and taste.

Ways to reduce the calorie content of main meals

Many people bake cakes according to proven grandmother's recipes, where there are 10-20 eggs per kilogram of flour, several glasses of sugar, dried fruits and a whole package of butter. Such a cake is a real instantaneous calorie bomb. With poor insulin sensitivity, hypertension, obesity, diseases of the digestive system, a high-calorie delicacy will cause a deterioration in well-being.

Not all people have iron health, so it is not difficult to find a dietary version of Easter cake. In the Recipes section, you will find many variations of the holiday baking. It is enough to reduce the number of eggs to five, reduce the amount of butter by a third, replace sugar with a non-nutritive sweetener, and you will already lose several hundred calories from the finished dish.

Likewise with cottage cheese Easter. Instead of rustic or fatty cottage cheese, buy low-fat, low-fat sour cream, add candied orange fruits instead of figs and dates, replace sugar with a sweetener. Dessert will become dietary and light for the stomach.

The calorie content of colored eggs cannot be reduced - you just need to know that one C1 chicken egg weighs about 65 grams and contains 102 calories. Many people eat 5 eggs or more during the holiday (calorizer). Five pieces is already 510 kcal. You can go for such a trick - buy pullet chicken eggs, which weigh about 40 grams. Five will have about 315 calories.

As for snacks and salads, choose dietary options where light or low-fat sour cream is used instead of fatty mayonnaise, poultry meat is used instead of high-calorie sausages, where the volume is created not by potatoes, but by colorful vegetables.

The subtleties and tricks of the festive menu

Even if there are dietary options for main dishes on the table, the big picture can easily be spoiled by high-calorie snacks and drinks. Sausage and cheese cuts, fatty and fried meats, alcoholic and sugary drinks will add calories and fat to the waist.

A few tips for planning your Easter menu:

Use low fat cheese;

• Replace sausage with jerky poultry or beef;
• Prepare lean fish snacks;
• Replace fried dishes with stewed or baked dishes;
• Instead of sugary carbonated drinks, drink green tea, mineral water, dried fruit compote;
• Drink red wine in moderation from alcohol.



Easter is preceded by a long fast, so many people find it difficult to control hunger. Go for the trick - arrange the salads in small portioned tartlets. It's one thing to eat two tartlets of different salads, it's another to lay them on with calorizator spoons. Take your time while eating - try the dishes, do not pounce on them, chew every bite thoroughly and enjoy communication with loved ones. Remember, Easter is a holiday of faith, not belly. Be moderate.

Ways to organize leisure activities for Easter

Avoid the couch lifestyle on holidays. For example, walk to church. On the way back, do not rush home to taste the festive dishes, but take a walk with your family. In the middle of the day, you can also go for a walk, especially if the weather is favorable for this.

If it's warm outside, collect a basket of Easter cakes, eggs, vegetables and fruits and go for a picnic. There are many outdoor games for adults and children. This is a good way to have a healthy and active time with your family.



Don't turn Easter into one big meal. Make this bright holiday a day of unity with your family, spend it interestingly, actively, with a sense of care for yourself and your neighbors.

Author: Ekaterina G., nutritionist, fitness blogger (specially for Calorizator.ru)

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