HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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We’ve made it to an amazing time of year… the Holidays!
Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc!
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We have partnered up with an amazing person, Kelli DiFazio from River Valley Health & Wellness, to bring additional support and healing direction through the foods we choose for our bodies and minds!
She’s brings a loving, energetic approach to her recommendations, and we look forward to you meeting her!
She put together some tips for the holidays and loving yourself and the maximizing the choices you make!
You can meet her at the free event on 11/30/17 here at the office:
Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle Workshop
Holiday Health Tips
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Start Strength Training NOW!
- Building a solid foundation of muscle will help your metabolic rate stay higher
during the holiday season. Muscle burns more than fat! Mentally, you’ll know
you’ve been working hard all month, and It may keep you in check!
- Building a solid foundation of muscle will help your metabolic rate stay higher
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Limit your indulgence to one or two days of the Holiday
- Keeping your holiday indulgence to the ‘eve’ and the actual day-of, will help
you not over do it. Try to keep in mind the 90% healthy 10% less healthy rule.
If you eat 3 meals per day 7 days per week, you eat 21 meals a week. Being
generous, this rule gives you 3 meals per week to indulge, enjoy, and not feel
guilty about. This extends past the holidays into your daily life too!
- Keeping your holiday indulgence to the ‘eve’ and the actual day-of, will help
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Eat healthy, well-rounded meals in between.
- Thanksgiving morning, eat a healthy breakfast. The apps will likely start flowing
around 2 or 3, and knowing you have eaten a healthy balanced breakfast will
bring you into the party a lot less hungry, and help keep you from over eating.
Between holidays, always commit to healthy balanced meals. Don’t snowball
the holiday eating!
- Thanksgiving morning, eat a healthy breakfast. The apps will likely start flowing
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Make sure you get some exercise!
- Holidays and long weekends are a fun time to relax, but getting outside,
especially this time of year, can be a good for your body & mind as we adjust
to winter hours and weather. It’s a great group activity for family & kids also!
Bundle up, and take the crew for an outside walk around the neighborhood or
some nature trails if you have them, get a game of football or frisbee going.
Take time to PLAY! It doesn’t have to be anything crazy, you don’t have to be
drained, just move that body. It’ll help you offset extra calories & keep digestion
stimulated to help avoid any constipation.
- Holidays and long weekends are a fun time to relax, but getting outside,
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Be Mindful!
- Mindlessness is often how over-eating happens. At home, it’s with things like
the TV on or computer in front of you. On holidays, there is so much
stimulation overload coming from friends, kids, dogs, games, etc. When you
choose to eat, choose to eat. Try not to multitask. Smaller portions will help
you get back to the fun quicker minimizing FOMO (fear of missing out). (WIN/WIN)
- Mindlessness is often how over-eating happens. At home, it’s with things like
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Just a *taste*
- When it comes to appetizers, Thanksgiving dinner, etc… we often LOAD up
our plates trying to get a serving of each delicious plate. If you eat healthy 90%
of the time, especially throughout the holidays, a little indulgence is totally fine,
and in my opinion welcome, but portions will be a huge factor here. Especially
rich/fatty/sugary foods (i.e. potatoes au gratin, or my aunt’s famous cheesy
bread dip) limit your consumption to a bite or two. Enough to experience the
flavors, but not enough to make you bloated and full mid party!
- When it comes to appetizers, Thanksgiving dinner, etc… we often LOAD up
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Drink a glass of water for every drink you have.
- The oldest trick in the book! You’ll have that many less beers, glass of wine, or
cocktails which means less sugar, less calories, and less of a hangover
tomorrow. You may also avoid that late night urge to go eat the food that’s
been sitting out for 5-6 hours.
- The oldest trick in the book! You’ll have that many less beers, glass of wine, or
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Do NOT beat yourself up over your holiday indulgence.
- One bad meal doesn’t make you fat, just like one salad doesn’t make you
skinny. Always look forward to your next meal, never regretting the last… and
on days there aren’t gatherings, parties, and endless appetizers, commit to
eating those healthy balanced meals.
- One bad meal doesn’t make you fat, just like one salad doesn’t make you
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