Dee's Tips for Staying Healthy Through the Holidays!

The holidays are a time for rejoicing, celebrating, visiting, and renewing. They are not a time to sabotage weight loss and healthy habits.


1. Anticipate slips.


2. Routine. Have a plan and follow it.


3. Think of things you are grateful for. Make a gratitude list for Thanksgiving.


4. Choose healthy foods. Bring healthy foods to parties,


5. Make healthier versions of some of your favorite holiday foods.


6. Realize that you don’t have to be perfect. Perfection can make you perfectly insane.


7. Enjoy walks by yourself, with friends and visiting family.


8. Enjoy the party, not the food. Eat healthy before going to parties so you won’t be too hungry.


9. Allow quiet time for yourself.


10. Create new memories.


11. Spend time with family and friends.


12. Buy yourself a gift, wrap it up nice and pretty, and open it at a special time.


13. Have lots of fun.


14. Take the opportunity to make it a truly spiritual time.