On this episode we will discuss tips on how to avoid weight gain during the holiday season time.
Stop snacking and meal prep while staying hydrated
Coping with your emotions with family members; depression, stress, happiness, and anxiety
Bring a plant based dish
Avoiding excess calories from alcohol
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Hey friends, Hope you are having a wonderful day. Today. We’re going to talk a little bit about the holidays because it is that time. It is November, you know, we had Halloween and now it’s full-blown right. It’s November. It is November 22nd. At this time, holidays are different for everybody. Sometimes it’s joyous time.
Sometimes it can bring on sadness for different reasons. Maybe you’ve lost a loved one, or there’s a lack thereof. I mean, It’s just super stressful. It can, it can pretty much invoke a lot of different feelings and things just come to the surface. And then if you are worried about your health, that can be impacted by food, by alcohol, but just all the things.
Right. And sometimes we put a lot of focus on food during the holidays. It’s mostly about being around loved ones a lot of times. And sometimes food is like a center piece. So we focus a lot around the food. And it makes you feel joyous, but it’s not about the food. It’s about so much more it’s about our emotions and that feeling of belonging and love, which then if you feel like that’s missing, can bring on depression and anxiety and all the other emotions.
So it’s very powerful. The holidays. They can have an effect on people in many ways. Okay. So. Like let’s talk about cooking, right? There’s always called people that may be cooking, doing a lot of meals. And then sometimes you wind up like snacking while you’re making your food. So let’s talk about trying to make you reduce your snacking.
Cause it’s so tempting, right? And this might not even be holidays. Sometimes people just snack in general while they are cooking. Right. You just want to taste this, taste that, and then honestly, by the time you’re finished making your dinner or lunch or whatever, is there you are cooking. Sometimes you really are kind of full cause you’ve been snacking the whole time.
You’re just waiting for that meal that you’ve been setting your sights on. And then, you know, ultimately everybody like overeats and that’s just what happens in general. Whenever you are starving, when you go to eat and you know, you always can make a plate, you know, there’s always supposed to go plate, so you don’t have to eat every single thing.
You can pick and choose, but whenever you are cooking, just make sure you’re not starving before you start cooking. All right. So making sure that you have something to eat, you don’t have to have like a full blown course per se, but just making sure that you’re not hungry. So just sitting down, giving yourself some time to just eat and enjoy your food before you’re cooking.
So if you’re making pies, you know, some pies, you know what I’m saying? So good right around the holidays, all of those desserts. Right as laid out in the table, you see those spreads. So while you’re cooking to keep yourself from digging in, maybe have some fresh fruit out there, right. Organic if possible or some veggies and just something so that whenever you do feel tempted and making sure it’s an Eyeview set, you can just kind of grab that right.
So just being able to work on developing new habits in general, right. To try to break that, just being mindful of what it is that you’re doing in that moment. So you always can, and you also can try to keep yourself. Um, your mind going, why are cookies that you knock into a boredom state? Like, okay, I’ve been in here all this time, all day.
They got me in his kitchen. Uh, love them, but you know what? I need a break. So then you just start getting flustered or not flushed but you know, it’s like this boredom, you just, something comes over you and you’re just like, oh, I need a break, but you’re not going to take a break because you just want to get it done.
So water is good for us, you know, and sometimes we are not even hungry. Sometimes we’re just dehydrated and we need some water. It was during this time you just been sitting there and you just been feeling kind of tired, just kind of out of it, or you’re just thinking you’re hungry and you want to eat something like, you just want to grab a snack, but then you actually just sat there and had a cup of water and you just like feel a hundred percent better.
So you could do that also whenever you’re getting ready to cook, right. You can sit there and you can drink a cup of water before you start , just to get you going. And you know, sometimes whenever you think about putting something in your mouth, when you’re snacking, just take a sip of something. You know, just take a sip of your water.
So you could have your water next to your fruits or your veggies that you’re going to have laid out. So you can, don’t be tempted to just eat everything that you’re cooking, because I know it could be tempting. Right. And you sitting there, it smells good. And we also eat through our senses. Right. All those five senses we have and it will be smelled good.
A lot of times it’s going to be loaded with a lot of sugar. So all those empty calories is not going to do your body any good, cause there’s no nutrients in it. So it’s just going to kind of hang around. You can’t use it for anything. So ultimately that’s going to contribute to you gaining weight, that holiday weight.
It’s also going to affect your health because we know the sugar has so many downfalls, right? So for example, you can just make like your own mocktails. So if people are gathering around, they want to have a drink or something you all could get together and just make something, getting some fresh fruit, you know, and maybe like some sparkling water.
If you want to have your little bubbles in there, you could use some coconut, right? [00:07:00] Um, you can create lots of pretty little free drinks, except yours will be a little bit more nutritious and it won’t have all the after effects, right? Because the holidays has an increased consumption of alcoholic beverages.
You have all that free time. You’re just hanging out all that boredom, kicks in and stress. Look at the end of the day, we all know that family can stress you out. Right. We love them, but it’s just, it just happens. You know, a bunch of people get together and just something might come up. because we’re just human. So then that goes back to just having good ways to cope, right?
Because sometimes you might be around somebody you might get triggered or you might not be around family at all. And then you might be missing someone. I mean, these last couple of years has been a lot of deaths out there. That’s going to come up. There’s can be sadness or shame. There’s just so many emotions that can be attached to the holidays.
Right. So, I mean, and there’s going to be spreads everywhere, right? So you might be tempted to overindulge, right? And I’m not talking about the normal, let me grab it another plate. You might can go into a binge because you might be dealing with your feelings, right. And that can be a food binge or that could be an alcohol binge.
You know, there’s just so many things. So allow yourself that space. So if you need to excuse yourself, because some getting to you do that you’re allowed to do that. You do not have to feel obligated to deal with anything that you don’t need to deal with. That’s going to make you feel uneasy. Right? Sometimes we feel like we owe it to somebody to deal with this, or we have to succumb to whatever that is, but you can excuse yourself.
Sometimes stuff you didn’t even know was there. It can be like, boom, here I am. You remember me? And always remember that you can bring a dish. So if you know that your family and friends eats one way, but you eat a certain way because you want your cholesterol to be good. You’re watching your, your blood sugar, all these things, and you’re on a roll.
It’s okay. To bring a dish, bring enough for everyone. Right? You can always bring some food with you. You don’t even have to be like, oh, Hey, this was plant base. You don’t have to, you don’t have to describe anything or what’s going on. You just, you just let them eat it. Just bring a dish, bring a nice platter.
And then they will enjoy. And then, then I open up a conversation at one moment. They’d be like, man, you’re looking so good. What have you been doing with yourself? Your skin is glowing. It’s clear. You drop weight, you will inspire people, you know? And in that way, they’ll just open the conversation.
Naturally. Next thing you know, You’re helping somebody else. You help them, somebody that you love, who otherwise wouldn’t even thought twice about trying this dish that’s plant-based or that’s healthy. And that’s love right there because you’re helping them be healthy. You’re helping them better themselves.
Cause this is a lifestyle and it shouldn’t be too overly restrictive to begin with, you know, just no. What your guidelines are for you, because it’s different for everybody and just, allow yourself to enjoy the moment, enjoy the day, just make the best of it. It’s about being grateful regardless of where you are in your life.
What’s going on wheather it’s, even if it’s health-related or not. Health-related just remember what’s going on. Just be appreciative, just wake up and just look around. So God, thank you for waking up and just say five things that you appreciate. It could just be the smallest things. If you’re married, tell your spouse something you appreciate about them.
Cause that gratefulness feeling will just take over your soul and you’re going to feel so good. Right? Let’s try that all the time. Right? If you just woke up in a bad mood, describing appreciative of all the things that you have, because at the end of the day, there’s always going to be somebody that wants to be where you are at.
That wants something that you have. And that’s something that’s out of alignment for somebody. So always feel just as grateful as you can be. Even whenever it feels like the times of hard that’s when you needed the most. So if you have in that off day, just be like, man, I feel good, man. Grateful to be alive, grateful for all of these things.
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