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Making it happen

Ready to launch your "campaign to maintain"? Here are some tips:

• It's essential to weigh yourself at least weekly, perhaps daily. So says Thomas Wadden, director of a University of Pennsylvania weight program. "It's the most important thing you can do during the holidays."

He points to the National Weight Registry, a study of several thousand people who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for at least three years.

It shows that those who regularly weigh themselves are the most successful at long-term weight maintenance.

To reduce errors, weigh at the same time of day, wearing the same thing (body weight can fluctuate by several pounds throughout the day).

• Budget about 1,000 calories for the Thanksgiving meal. That's enough for plenty of food but not a license to gorge.

(For 1,000 calories, you'll get about four ounces of turkey, half a cup of stuffing, salad, green beans, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, a roll, a glass of wine and a slice of pumpkin pie.)

You can calculate your dinner's calories at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Web site www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl.

• Move it. Physically active people don't gain or lose during the holidays. That was the finding of a study of holiday weight-gain published a few years ago in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Physical activity mattered more than stress, depression or anything else. "People who were somewhat more active kept their weight stable; those who described themselves as much more physically active lost weight during the holidays," says lead author Jack Yanovski. If nothing else, walk.

• Monitor not only overeating but changes in physical-activity patterns. Both are common over the holidays, says nutritionist Barbara Rolls of Pennsylvania State University. Her strategy: Keep an informal running tally of what you eat and how much you exercise.

For weight maintenance, there's no need to do this daily or log calories; "it's just to jog your memory and be aware of what you're doing."

• "It's the first four or five bites of food that really give us a lot of pleasure and taste," Wadden says, so keep that in mind in dishing portions at those endless buffets and parties. And his even tastier advice:

• Finish a meal with something sweet. It signals your brain to stop eating.

• Alcohol reduces inhibition, eroding the resolve to eat reasonably. Yep, another reason to limit drinking. Then there are the calories; you can have that wassail or egg nog, but not too often.

Alcohol can easily add 100 to 1,000 calories to a meal. (Scotch and other distilled spirits: 75 to 80 calories per ounce. Wine: 20 to 25 calories per ounce. Beer: 12 calories per ounce. One cup of eggnog: 340 calories — before adding the rum.) Wadden's party suggestion: Sip a wine spritzer, slowly.

• Sleep-deprived people are hungrier. The latest research from the University of Chicago suggests that even minimal sleep deprivation — just an hour a night — can significantly boost appetite and alter insulin resistance in less than a week.

Disrupted holiday schedules, unfortunately, make this more likely. "When you're sleep-deprived, your resources to control behavior get eroded," says Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.

Plus, getting enough sleep gives you more energy to be physically active and makes it less likely that you'll overeat.

• Deprivation is unrealistic and backfires anyway. Aim to eat about 2,000 calories a day, the amount that most adults need to maintain their weight.

"It's unreasonable to think that you can avoid parties or watch people eat pies and cookies and have nothing," says Tracy Sbrocco, associate professor of medical and clinical psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.

Just pace yourself. "You can't do it all," says George Blackburn, nutrition director at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. "You can't party, snack and eat heavily at meals."

• Spend your calories wisely. Buche de Noel and potato latkes appear only at this time of year. Ditto for fruitcake, plum pudding, Christmas cookies and a lot of other holiday favorites. Don't squander calories on treats that are available year-round