When you’re doing all of your cooking and baking for Christmas, it’s easy to take a sample here and a sample there, then sit down to a huge plate full of high-fat, high-calorie foods at your traditional meal. It’s a recipe for disaster for many, leading to 5-10 pounds of weight gain during the holidays alone. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are some simple strategies and substitutions you can follow to cut calories from your Thanksgiving and Christmas intake. Check out ChristmasStress.info for some help with keeping those pesky extra pounds away.