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 ...
The more side dishes you have the holiday table, the more you will eat. That also means the day after the feast the bowls and containers of leftovers come out of the refrigerator. And if you have lots of leftovers, you probably made too much. This holiday, plan to cut out one or two of ...
Focus on the company or activity rather than the food. Did you know that the more people you eat with, the more you eat? If you eat with three other people you eat about 75 per cent more than you would if you ate alone. And eating with a group of seven or more really ...