[header] How to splurge selectively at christmas [title] Avoid eating the sweet and fatty food at every occasion that you attend. [step] Limit it to every few events. [title] Place foods in a hierarchy. 
[step] Keep the fatty and sugary snacks at the top of the hierarchy and the fruit pieces and vegetable sticks at the bottom. Allow yourself free range down the bottom and eat from the hierarchy as follows : [substeps] Go for the vegetables and dip platters.