Maria Luwara, 61 of Boynton Beach came from a fit and healthy family. When she experienced stress because of her father’s death in 1993, her divorce and death of her mother, this resulted to over eat.

Then, 14 moths ago, she started a new, healthy way of living. And she was trigger by the death of an overweight friend-who was only 39.

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Frances Newell, 52 of Jupiter began gaining weigh at the age of 14; she had a craving for sweets, as well as an emotional hunger.

By the time she was 22, she weighed 250 pounds. But she realized that its just mental, in her 20’s, she did everything to be slim happily by listening to my body, and she did all those things for herself.

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Ruth Walenstein, 51 of West Palm Beach started her goal to lose weight when she downloaded the food log from fitday.com and calorie-count.com. These calculates the proteins, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, etc. that you have eaten for the day.

She eat 1, 600  calories a day and try to limit the carbs to 172 grams or less, fats 40 grams a day, protein 136 grams and fiber 30+ a day. These numbers were based on her weight, activity and energy.

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How are you going to cope with foods when holidays arrive? Sometimes, there’s no way to avoid being stuck with eat. So, here’s how to survive holidays without damaging your diet.

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1. Burn more calories, even while you are sleeping-metabolism is the process of converting calories from food into fuel.
2. Eat several times a day-British researchers learned that women who ate the same amount of food as usual but divided it into 6 mini meals got a small but notable metabolic boost compared to those who ate more regularly.

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