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Party-Proof Your December : Latest Free Guide
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Party-Proof Your December : Latest Free Guide
I know Thanksgiving is behind us, but December’s calendar is stacked with potlucks, office parties, and family feasts, so this Healthy Holiday Eating guide is still useful.
Here are six bite-sized tips I pulled from IMA’s list to help us cruise through the season without derailing too much (link in comments)
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1. Bring a wholesome dish you love, then you’re guaranteed one solid option.
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2. Find healthy swaps (OJ-sweetened cranberry sauce, cauliflower mash, oven-roasted turkey).
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3. Eat mindfully & slowly, give your brain time to register “I’m full.”
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4. Don’t skip meals to “save” calories, it usually backfires with late-night overeating.
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5. Fill half your plate with veggies first before heading for the mains.
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6. Watch portions, start small, go back only if you really need seconds.
Would any of these tips help? I think never going to a party hungry helps me.
Or…Are you one of those always-disciplined unicorns?
Drop your best (or worst!) holiday-eating stories or tips below.
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Here’s a link to the guide https://imahealth.org/tools-and-guides/healthy-holiday-eating-tips/
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I like the idea behind a discussion that helps us approach the dark side of a Thanksgiving meal mindfully (I tell my pilates classes that awareness is healing – after a hundred sessions, they might actually get it). By darkside, I mean the addiction playback loop that repeats itself in our brain (eat more it’s good for you; eat more it’s good for you; eat more it’s good for you…), and it only stops when the pain makes it obvious that it ain’t. There are various strategies, all of which work to varying degrees for most people. I like the idea of going to a Thanksgiving with something in the tum already. I have some strategies that work for me some of the time. Including: (1) reset the goal of the meal from “perfectly stuffing yourself” to “I’m doing this for my enjoyment and health” (2) Ignore the feedback loop and wait 10 minutes (because 10 minutes later, you wonder why you had such a terrible urge to stuff in another three plates worth – the 10 minutes was alll it need for the satiety hormones to emerge and takeover your sensations. And there are lots of different satiety hormones. (3) It’s tough to fight the addiction hormones, though, so: (3) Get ornery with a fight-back mantra. “I’m an athlete”, or “I don’t want to have the painful and disabling chronic disease condition that my glutinous relatives have”, or “when I monitor my glucose, I know I’m setting myself up for cognitive decline”, or “I’ve seen the tragedy of eating one’s way into alzheimers, and it’s not the way I want to live my retirement years”, or “eat like a pig, become a medically dependent, sheep. Or, “I have very mild colds and COVIDs nowadays, which means I don’t have to take a day off work (which is a real pain since I’m in a sole charge Pilates business -nobody else is going to do the work for me) and, “I don’t have to beg the doctor for a round of chronic-disease-promoting-antibiotics and I’m keeping it that way”. I took the time to share my own brainstorming for fight-back mantras that work for me. I think it’s good for you to do the same. I want everyone to be happy and healthy; it’s what I live for. Maybe you can help me further with that aim? Blessings!..
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