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Day Twenty-Two - Holiday Health Challenge
Get Domestic
Over the holiday season many of us get at least a few days off. How do you use that time? Are you home? I suggest using a little of your down time to get your life organized for 2018! Take the time to meal plan, unclutter the house and look at your schedule for the year.
Day Twenty - Holiday Health Challenge
Are there Traditions You Can Live Without?
I was shocked when I Googled Holiday Traditions in Canada and realized that 90% of them were all foods or involved a food! What? Do we not read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” anymore? Why does everything have to revolve around food? I have decided to make a point this year of making other things a tradition with my family.
Day Nineteen - Holiday Health Challenge
Trim Down on The Trimmings
The holidays are filled with amazing foods! We enjoy all the holiday meals and all the “trimmings”. Do you know what the trimmings are? I have heard that phrase all my life and only in recent years did I think about it. What are these trimmings we speak of so fondly? Where do they go for the rest of the year?
Day Eighteen - Holiday Health Challenge
Bring Your Own Dish
Don’t wait to be asked to contribute to a invitation to dinner. In fact, don’t even ask if you can bring something, just do it. Tell the host or hostess that you have fallen in love with a new recipe, or that it would be your pleasure to bring your favorite holiday dish for them to try. I often will show up with something other than wine.
Day Sixteen - Holiday Health Challenge
Bring Out the Skinny Jeans
Okay this might be the funniest tip in my opinion! Going to a party? Dress in your tightest pants, aka the skinny jeans and let nature tell you when to stop eating! It doesn’t just have to be your jeans, find a fitted shirt, a little black dress, wear a belt that doesn’t have any room to let out a notch! I find this a fun and effective way to stay conscious all day and all night.
Day Fifteen - Holiday Health Challenge
Size Does Matter
Today we are going to discuss portion size. What do the “recommended” portions look like?Here are a few easy ways to remember without counting calories or grams of fat, protein and carbs. Remember that your stomach is only able to handle SO much food.
Day Thirteen - Holiday Health Challenge
Balance Acid with Alkaline
When we eat foods that produce an acid or alkaline effect on the body without balance, the body must work harder to mitigate the effects of pH and keep our bodily fluids in homeostasis. But, when you eat acid forming foods and balance them with alkaline forming foods they have a neutral effect on the body! So, which foods are which?
Day Twelve - Holiday Health Challenge
Eat Low to High – Eat till Satisfied NOT Stuffed
It’s time to discuss how to eat at a buffet FULL of treats! We’ve discussed trying to come prepared and trying to not arrive starving but it’s still nice to sample some of the food. I mean, it is Christmas!! So where to start?
Day Eleven - Holiday Health Challenge
The Holidays are filled with deliciousness. There are gingerbread cookies, shortbread cookies, pecan pies, pumpkin pies, eggnog, hot buttered rum and many more unbelievably amazing confections. Sometimes I run into people who are literally eating themselves through the holidays. Did you know that most people who pack on a few pounds every holiday rarely take those pounds off in January?
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Day Seven - Holiday Health Challenge
It’s well known that some of your time, even if you are an on-line shopper, will be spent out running errands and at the shopping malls this holiday season. In the past, have you ever found yourself stuck, hungry and unprepared? Not this year!!
Day Six - Holiday Health Challenge
Okay, so we discussed scheduling the events that we are going to visit and we discussed how to navigate drinking at events but what about food? Here’s the scenario; We arrive at a party and there is a MASSIVE buffet filled with the most delicious food! We tried to plan ahead and not arrive super hungry but we were tied up at the office and had to rush out the door. What do we do?...
Day Five - Holiday Health Challenge
Through this entire year how many times have you taken time out to “just be”? Just be you, just think about you, what you want and what you need? How many times did you think about doing something special for yourself, to say thank you to yourself for being SO amazing? Have you been to get a pedicure, facial or massage? Did you think to buy yourself something, just because YOU deserve it?...
Day Four - Holiday Health Challenge
Technology is the current drug of choice for many. Addiction can only be understood when the object is taken away. Are you addicted to your technology? Have you tried leaving the phone, tablet or computer turned off for a day or even a few hours? We can never fully realize how much we NEED to be connected until we aren’t...
Day Three - Holiday Health Challenge
Many of us stay accountable for the food but forget the drinks add up too! I am astounded at the number of New Year resolution stories I hear that begin with “I just don’t know where I went wrong!” I am by NO means going to tell you...
Day Two - Holiday Health Challenge
First things first, I know that there are LOTS of events we feel we HAVE to attend over the holidays, but do we? Today I suggest sitting down with your calendar and really evaluating all the invites you have scheduled. I know there is at least ONE that...
Day One - Holiday Health Challenge
I know, I know, it sounds SO simple. But did you know that your body is approximately 60% water and that we are constantly losing water through our urine and our sweat? When we are going into the holidays filled with goodies and treats there also some other good reasons to drink more water!...
Holiday Health Challenge - Introduction
Do you want to make it through this holiday season feeling your best? Or maybe even shed some pounds? How about your mental health? Do you want to feel less stressed starting 2018? Then join this Holiday Health Challenge...