Christmas is a great time to enjoy favorite foods and beverages, but it is also easy to overeat and develop digestive problems or gain weight. Here are some important tips:
Keep Water Handy: High calorie beverages like eggnog, hot chocolate and fruit juices are common during the holidays. Insufficient water consumption can increase the consumption of these high caloric beverages.
Keep Healthy Snacks Available: The tendency to consume cake, pie and cookies as snacks can lead to overindulgence during the holidays. Try and restrict these sweets to meals as desserts.
Eat Breakfast: Skipping breakfast and eating too much latter in the day is a sure prescription for weight gain. Calories consumed late in the day are not burned off like those consumed in the morning.
Share Healthy Food: The tendency is to take sweets to pot lucks and to prepare these foods for group meals. Share healthier dishes like fruit or vegetable salads. I like to share homemade sugar-free fruit sorbet and cookies composed of dehydrated fruit and nuts. We have a local pie shop that will make pies without sugar if an order is placed. These are wonderful served with a little ice cream or whipped cream.
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