Hello reader, sorry I got wrapped up in school but I hope we are still health conscious. Thanksgiving is here and for most of us it spells excessive eating. There is nothing bad with spending some quality time with loved ones over our favorite foods. The key is portion control. One can eat everything without eating too much. I feel people need to have a good time with family and friends and not make food the center of the gathering. Just in case we did not get it right during thanksgiving I want us to have a plan for subsequent holidays.
Our big holiday plan in no particular order:
- Don’t go to holiday dinners starving. Eat before the big feast. A small healthful meal with lots of fiber (oatmeal, whole-grain sandwich, salad with beans) keeps you feeling full until dinner. Help yourself to a veggie-filled salad or raw vegetables, such as carrots and celery, before the main meal.
- Establish some ground rules in advance of the meal that allow you to indulge but not pig out — for example, make up your mind to have only a small portion of dessert.
- Make time for exercise every day, especially on holidays. Exercise does not have to be hectic but just plan on doing some sort of exercise every day.
- Start a new family tradition. Take a bike ride, go for a hike, or play tennis especially on morning of a big holiday.
- Don’t eat food just because it is there. Save your calories for the foods you love.
- Scan the buffet and carefully choose the foods you love. If they are high in calories like the gravy, just take a smaller portion. Take larger portions of the simply prepared foods such as baked sweet potatoes, steamed vegetables, and skinless white meat of turkey.
- After a big dinner, fight the urge to nap the evening away. Moving more than usual with activity such as a game of touch football in the front yard or a marathon of shopping on Black Friday will help compensate for any little indulgences.
- Aspire to maintain your weight during the holidays because trying to lose weight might be a tough proposition. Trying to follow a strict diet may lead to you eventually overeat or even bing. Don’t stress out over no net loss — celebrate a lack of gain!
- In spite of everything, let us celebrate who we are. According to Cicero, Let us thank God every day when we get up and have something to do that day which must be done whether we like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do our best will breed in us temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
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