What you need to know about Chinese New Year Treats

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Many people starts to do housekeeping. Good for them. For a person weight about 60kg, doing heavy cleaning of 30 minutes will help him to burn 143 kcal. This would be good motivation for people wish to shed some weight to do regular house keeping.

New year is a time to celebrate. Food and sugar drinks are items surely easily found everywhere and every moments. Before you tuck in that delicious pine apple tart or that oily, sinful but very tasty and tempting bak kua, check out the below information. Probably it will help you to manage your weight during this annual "mind and will power testing" period from food indulgence.

Pineapple tart (20g) = 80 kcal
"Love Letter" (15g) = 55 kcal
Kueh Bangkit (1 piece) = 25 kcal
Kueh Lapis (8cm x 4cm) = 145 kcal
Pork Bak Kua (11 cm x 7 cm) = 230 kcal
Plain Agar-agar (1 piece) = 85 kcal
Prawn Cracker (2 pieces) =98 kcal

What these numbers mean? It means simply by taking just one piece of each items above (which is not a lot) is amounting to total energy by eating a plate of fried rice.

Wow! One piece of each probably will not fill up half of my stomach but I am getting the calories of a plate of fried rice! What about the coke or the sugar green tea that I yet to sip? That's is on top of the normally heavy meal during the festive season.

Some tips of enjoying the goodies while not having too much of the high calories stuff.
1. Eat slowly and enjoy conciously every bite of it will help you avoid swollowing too much of new year goodies.
2. Always hold a piece of the goody in your hand but not eating it (choose one you don't really like to eat). This will help to fend off some warm and friendly people from stuffing those goodies in your hand.
3. Asked for a big glass of plain water to fill your stomach first before indulge in those tasty goodies. This has double benefit, make your body stay hydrated and avoid eating to much of the high energy stuff. Probably it helps to prevent potential sore throat too.
4. Show this calories chart to your friends and relatives. They may say you are health freak or they may say you are knowledgeable. Either way, is one good way of starting conversation and it can help to divert some embarrassing questions from the very concerning relatives such as "when are you getting married?"
5. If you really cant resist the temptation, probably can choose to lose some calories by walking extra bus stop or parking your car further away from destination. Remember, doing a 30 min heavy house cleaning work just burn half of the Bak Kua away.

Stay tuned for more ways of staying trim during the festive seasons.
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