With truckloads of sweets around, here's how not to put on weight

With truckloads of deep fried food items and sweets in front of you, it is difficult to lose weight during festivals like Holi. If you cannot lose weight, at least try not to put on extra weight.

With truckloads of deep fried food items and sweets in front of you, it is difficult to lose weight during festivals like Holi. If you cannot lose weight, at least try not to put on extra weight, says an expert.

Harsh Kapoor, director, gastroenterology, Primus Super Specialty Hospital, shares a few tips on monitoring and controlling festive diets:

* Avoid overeating: It's not just about the quantity of food you are eating, but the intake of calories. Thus, during the festive season, be careful about the consumption of calories to avoid weight gain.

* What not to eat: Avoid eating oily and too much of spicy food besides restricting the sugar intake in sweets. Plan your meal in such a way that one special meal of the day should most likely be lunch so that day activities and movements can burn the extra amount of calories. And, try keeping your breakfast light and healthy, while dinner should be as light as possible to manage the intake of calories.