Last week we discussed eating / dieting tips whenever you attend parties. Now let's discuss in general how to have a
good game plan during the hoilday season.
- Review your eating habits from the previous year’s celebration.
- Decide which customary holiday food habits you could easily change.
- Before digging in at a big holiday feast, imagine how you will feel after eating it. Visualize the bloated, uncomfortable, and guilty feelings you’ve experienced on past occasions.
- Forget about being “perfect” on holidays. Stringent dieting may be unrealistic and you could sabotage your efforts by setting standards that are too high.
- Learn to be festive without depending on alcohol. A drink there, a toast there – the calories of alcohol can add up. Substitute fruit juice or mineral water for alcohol.
- If you’re invited to someone’s home for dinner, ask if you can contribute a dish, then make it low-calorie.
- Remember that the major purpose of the holidays is to enjoy family and friends. Food and alcohol are secondary factors.
Used with permission from A Year of Health Hints by Don R Powell, PHD and the American
Institute for Preventive Medicine, copyright 2010. www.healthylife.com
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