navigate across the room to get it — giving you time to reconsider.
4. Invite a healthy diet date.
Attend your special event with someone who can support you in your diet.
“Invite someone who will help you make healthier choices,” says Gee. Tempting as it may be to invite a pal who will give you her salad in exchange for your roll and dessert, Gee cautions against this approach: “It’s not nice to suggest that someone else become the over-indulger on your behalf.”
5. Manage your overall calendar.
For some people, eating events seem to pile up like cars in rush hour. Gee emphasizes that you have control over all of this — not only which events you attend, but what you do at those events and what you do in your non-event time.
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“Focus on the events and activities around food and exercise that you can control,” Gee advises.
Schedule the diet-friendly moments for healthy eating and exercise that you need.
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Above all, keep your outing eating in perspective.
“One eating event will not wreck your health. It’s more important to consider your eating and exercise habits on most days,” says Gee. “The key is to acknowledge that you are making a choice to include some extra calories at this eating event. Do it, enjoy it, and then go back to your usual healthy lifestyle afterwards without that burden of guilt.”
