The holidays are often when everyone gets all worried about the sweet and savory indulgences that will no doubt grace every holiday table. It becomes a time where often you give yourself permission to let loose and eat whatever, and then new year’s rolls around and you feel like you got hit by a food truck.
What I’m proposing is a complete mindset shift around how you honor your body and your self-care needs during the holiday season. This is a time for giving, so how about you give yourself a gift that’s going to nourish you beyond the 10-minute sugar rush of that desert platter buffet that you have eaten every holiday only to feel like death the next day because of it.
It can be hard when you are on that journey to better health and living a healthy lifestyle. There are many internal and external obstacles including getting others onboard AND finding filling and fulfilling alternatives to the energy draining and health compromising foods you used to over indulge in. Below are some tips to help you starting on addressing those issues and finally making changes that you not only can live with, but actually enjoy.
Set Boundaries with Your Family
Talk to your family and explain that you’ll be doing things differently this year, that just because it’s the holidays doesn’t mean you’re going to settle for nutritionally deprived foods that take more than they give your body. Explain that you’ll be creating some healthy delicious options and offer to share with them. It is the holidays after all!
Exercise Your Creativity in the Kitchen
Try new and exciting recipes. Splurge and buy superfoods, interesting fresh fruits and vegetables that you don’t always get, nuts and seeds and truffled extra-virgin olive oil.
Tips to Eat Healthy Without Feeling Deprived
Healthy food can be totally gourmet and special too. Make your own homemade chocolate with mint leaves and stevia for sweetness. Garnish your salads with pomegranates and walnuts.
Here are a few more tips and tricks…
- Swap white potatoes with roasted sweet potato and butternut squash
- Thicken the drippings from your turkey for gravy with arrowroot or tapioca starch to stay away from gluten and GMO corn starch.
- Try making coconut whipped cream instead of dairy and serve with roasted sweet potatoes with a bit of cinnamon, stevia and crumbled pecans
- Ditch the bread and stick with extra veggies drizzled with high-quality olive oil
- Use plain yogurt instead of sour cream
- Make cauliflower rice instead of white rice
Want even more great tips to help you survive the holidays without weight gain or feeling tired, sluggish and bloated? Check out my FREE Holiday Survival Guide by clicking here – Holiday Survival Guide.
Also make sure to join me on my Facebook page – The Village – A Natural HEALing Community – where I’ll be sharing more information, tips and recipes to help you live a happier, healthier life.
HEAL GOOD. FEEL GOOD. DO GOOD.
Jamie Nicole is the Founder and CEO of The Natural Healing Coach, LLC. Jamie has established herself as a leading expert in the health & wellness industry as a certified holistic health & autoimmune strategist, dance fitness instructor, and health & wellness motivational speaker.
Jamie works with Type A, busy professionals and purpose-driven leaders (from the corporate executive to the stay-at-home mom juggling kids and all the tasks), who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. They have either been to multiple doctors with no answers, or have been diagnosed with an autoimmune or chronic condition and are still struggling to find a balance with it. They are focused and motivated to find the answer so they can feel better and because they have #goals and they don’t want to give them up and be defeated by their disease.
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