Want to control your cravings this holiday season? Simple strategies to help you stay on track

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- If you program to indulge this vacation season, determination are strategies that could beryllium adjuvant for you successful the caller year.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 12% of adults said they are presently taking GLP-1 drugs, which is up 6% from May of past year.

The medications assistance power your appetite, but we've got immoderate hacks to assistance you support your cravings nether control.

"People bash often disguise oregon deliberation that they are bare erstwhile it's much of a craving, and there's a large quality there," said Rémy Leigh Peters, a registered dietitian with the Providence Family Cancer Center.

She said radical often summation value erstwhile they springiness successful to their cravings excessively soon.

"Cravings spell distant erstwhile you get distracted, truthful that's 1 mode to benignant of know, 'Is this hunger oregon a craving?" said Peters.

The archetypal happening you tin bash is effort to clench your fist oregon tighten immoderate musculus successful your body.

"It benignant of triggers thing successful your brain, like, 'I'm successful control, this is my willpower," said Peters.

Other strategies proven to assistance hold and distract are watching a comic video, calling a person oregon doing a puzzle. Researchers accidental this stimulates the brain's reward system.

"Some radical really bash good with possibly playing similar a video crippled oregon thing wherever their hands are busy, oregon knitting oregon thing productive that way," said Peters.

Another mode to halt your hunger is to get moving.

It's a story that workout makes you hungrier. In fact, researchers accidental it's the opposite.

"I deliberation exercising benignant of gets your caput disconnected of that hunger feeling," said Jean-Luc Celaya, a manager astatine 24-Hour Fitness successful San Juan Capistrano.

British scientists accidental aerobic enactment increases accumulation of a peptide that suppresses appetite. Experts accidental dehydration tin instrumentality you into feeling bare and studies amusement greenish oregon achromatic beverage tin assistance you pain abdominous and equilibrium your glucose levels.

"When your humor sugar's high, sometimes you're feeling much hungry, truthful beverage is great, but water, of course, is ever going to beryllium your main root of fluid," said Peters.

And wherefore not effort a cupful of kindness? Researchers find doing bully deeds oregon focusing connected forgiveness reduces accent and tin assistance you chopped down connected affectional eating.