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Tags: health, wellness, nutrition, holiday foods
 Who wouldn’t love the holidays. What season can be as festive and merry indeed. Family, friends and colleagues getting together, savoring the splendor of the time of the year. And of course tis’ season to be jolly will not be so without foods- holiday foods. In the midst of the plenteous fare you can’t help but indulge.
Amid the bounty of holiday foods, who could ever think of practicing moderation. But if you happen to be a mindful dieter, you ought not forget your standing. Keep perching on your mind the sweetly stabbing words “A moment on the lips, but forever on the hips”. These are lexis to live by during the holiday season.
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You may have been an adhering health enthusiast all throughout the year. “A healthy diet and regular exercise”, cliché as they are may have been a lifestyle for you. So you think, it’s the holidays. Time for me to have a break and simply celebrate. But perhaps you should consider that much of healthful trudge you have taken throughout can be undone by a few weeks’ immoderation towards the end of the year.
So then and here, best that you bear in mind that the holidays can be jolly without you getting baggy when the next year starts. Perhaps you should consider staying away from certain holiday foods, or else have them minimally. For instance the sweet potato casserole. Sweet potatoes generally are healthful and nutritious food.
Taken as they are without hefty blends, it is a dish containing beta carotene and a host of vitamins. But apparently, the healthfully nourishing sweet potato casserole becomes somewhat desecrated when turned into holiday food. This otherwise healthy vegetable dish becomes smothered with mallows, brown sugar, butter and empty calorie trimmings.
Even regular potatoes themselves are converted into noxious provisions during the holidays. To the health and diet, that is. They are dappled with cream and butter until they become a peril to your fitness plan. For those planning on preparing potatoes for the season’s celebration, a healthier substitute for cream and butter would be chicken broth.
Chicken stock can also serve as flavor enhancer for other dishes. Then there is the scrumptious combination of sugar, heavy cream and alcohol which is eggnog. Flavorsome this festive libation may be but it packs nearly 400 calories. Imagine the ample time you’d need to work with the treadmill to burn off such excess.
If eggnog simply cannot be let alone, then perhaps you should rein on your other indulgences. Anything fried with cheese is another list on the menu preferably passed up. Savor the thought of a salty combination of cheese along with certain fried carbohydrates, but better not let it anywhere near your palate.
These delectable comfort foods may bring fond memories, but don’t spoil the future with it. You ought to bring lightweight baggage with you in the coming year—mind and body- wise. The holidays are for celebrating, but it doesn’t necessarily mean unhealthy indulgence. Other than holiday foods, the festivity of the season can be lavished with the merriest of company and the cheeriest of laughter.
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About the author
The author of this article Rose Windale is a Health and Wellness Coach who has been successful with several natural health programs for many years. Rose recently published a step-by-step guide on how to lose weight the EASY way and become totally healthy and happy. More info on her life-changing eating habits plan HERE.
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