Eat at regular mealtimes. Many families eat holiday meals mid-afternoon. If you allow yourself to get too hungry, you may want to overeat. Try to keep your holiday meals close to your usual time schedule. Eat your breakfast and have your holiday meal at lunch or at dinner. Remember not to skip meals on days ...
You know the traditional version of the 12 Days of Christmas song. “On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me…” This year we’re rewriting the 12 Days to practice self-care. Self –care includes actions you take upon yourself to take care of you emotionally, physically, and mentally. Practicing self-care helps you ...
Give a gift of fitness. Most all of us need to increase our physical activity. This year give a fitness gift to yourself or your loved ones. This could be a fitness tracker, equipment for a favorite activity, an exercise video or game, a gift certificate for new walking or running shoes or new exercise ...
Increase physical activity. It still comes down to numbers. More calories in than out leads to weight gain. To balance out the extra calories coming in from holiday eating you need to increase calories out. Make an effort to look for ways to get in extra steps at home, at work, and out shopping. If ...
Be choosy. Limit treats and high calorie beverages to special occasions. There may be lots of extra treats at work or at home, but every day is not a special occasion. Be choosey about the foods served at holiday meals. If you decide to drink higher caloric beverages such as alcohol or eggnog, limit ...
It’s a lot easier to eat your vegetables when you prepare them to bring out their flavor. Roasting them lets you taste the vegetables, and not some sauce to cover them up. Vegetables contain natural sugars and the roasting brings out that delicious caramelization that tastes so good. You will want to choose vegetables that ...
Keep your distance from the food table. If you are a party and the food is set out where you serve yourself, stand on the other side of the room and keep your back to the table. It’s easier to manage your eating if you’re not staring at the food. Eat Smarter… Vicki Bovee, MS, ...
Your stomach/pouch doesn’t know it’s a holiday. It’s that time of the year when food becomes much too plentiful for most of us. Our eyes see all the temptations and our brain tells us to eat. But your stomach/pouch doesn’t know what day it is and it doesn’t care. Pay more attention to what your ...
Leave the serving dishes on the counter. If you put all the food on the table it is too easy to keep eating without thinking about it. The food keeps circling around the table and when it comes to you another spoonful may land on your plate. If you have to get up to get ...
Do you nibble, nibble while you are preparing dinner? One can eat enough food nibbling while cooking to equal dinner. Then either one is too full for dinner, or eats dinner anyway and suffers the discomfort. This casual picking and tossing food into your mouth is mindless eating. Before you know it, you’ve consumed a ...