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Focus on keeping your weight steady with simple healthy eating strategies, rather than worry about gaining or losing weight during the holiday season.

With the holidays quickly approaching, whether you are a cancer survivor or not, it is very important to keep your weight steady. You can accomplish this by eating healthy foods coupled with your very own strategy. Hopefully my Squidoo Lenses over the past month have given you some ideas for some cancer fighting foods that are good and healthy.

If you try to diet during the holiday season, I think you may be setting yourself up for a disappointment. One strategy, or goal, is to maintain your weight. This goal is a little more achievable.

Many of us after eating a meal like to either lie down or go and sit in an easy chair and watch television. This isn't going cut it. The absence of physical activity is the main cause of weight gain. Without exercise, you burn fewer calories, and you're also likely to eat more.

During the holidays, we eat more because of the craziness and stress. And we eat when we're not even hungry sometimes too. Eating due to stress is a learned behavior. But many people do not associate stress as a cause of eating when they are not hungry.

I wish you the best of luck this holiday season.