In the first part of this article, we offered some helpful Christmas weight loss tips to help you stay on track with your eating during the holiday season.  We covered the importance of eating a healthy breakfast, adding more fiber to your diet, staying hydrated, avoiding "pig out syndrome", and eating smaller portions. Below are 5 more power tips:

Weight gain during the holidays seems almost inevitable when you consider the influencing factors at play: being busier and more stressed than you normally are, gathering together with loved ones and friends for celebrations, and plenty of temptations in the form of delicious, high calorie foods and beverages. However, if you plan ahead and keep a few helpful strategies in mind, you don't have to ditch your healthy weight loss plans just because the holidays are here.

Some people might say that trying to lose weight during the Christmas season is crazy, but it's definitely not impossible if you just apply some common sense strategies.

Below you'll find a collection of the "best of the best" Christmas weight loss tips:

When you think of holiday weight gain, you probably think about all of the delicious foods lurking everywhere you turn. Holiday parties, family dinners, office luncheons, 20 dozen Christmas cookies cooling on your kitchen counters - there is no shortage of temptation during the holidays.

However, there is another contributor to holiday weight gain, and it has nothing to do with food. The holiday season is known for being one of the most stressful seasons of the year. You may have heard that stress is a major contributor to the formation of belly fat, thanks to a little chemical called cortisol. Even if your eating habits are downright angelic throughout the holiday season, letting stress get to you may still cause you to gain a few pounds.

The good news is that avoiding stress-related weight gain during the holidays is easy if you follow these simple steps: