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How do you stay healthy during the holiday season?

Bethany Learn

As moms, we all love the holidays for the beauty and bounty they bring into our lives, but that bounty often turns up on our hips! Sometimes we feel like we have to say no to all the treats or avoid parties altogether to stay healthy during the holidays, but you don't have to grovel with your granola bar at this year's parties. Enjoy goodies without gaining by giving yourself the gift of sticking by these three simple goals... First, set your servings. A serving is basically the size of a small child's fist. How many servings will you allow yourself? Start with five servings. You could pick five different things, and have one serving of each, or you could eat five servings of your favorite thing. Then have the willpower to stop. Second, do a festive flip with your food! Switch the bad out and substitute the good into all the things you love! Use 1/3-less fat cream cheese instead of the full-fat version. Trade a cup of whole-grain flour for the bleached white kind. Use a little grapeseed oil to grease your pans instead of butter. Chop some cancer-fighting Kale into that salad! Look for ways to sneak stored sunshine and nutrition into all your holiday meals, and your families' health will thank you! Third, only buy presents for your family that will get them healthy and moving. If you plan to purchase video games, buy ones that get people dancing or boxing. If you are going to buy a toy, buy one that gets kids jumping and twisting. If you have to put together a basket, fill it with whole-grain, organic goodness. Read more in my related post about healthy gifts for kids.
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What's your New Year's Resolution?

Bethany Learn

Making resolutions is about setting reachable, attainable goals. Are you going to lose weight? Define how much. Are you going to give up something? Define what that thing and exactly how you plan to avoid it. All that said, setting goals to improve ourselves on the outside will never heal what's on the inside. Just like a book cannot be judged by its cover, a person's health can't be judged by their body fat percentage. When I was obtaining my degree in Exercise and Sport Science from OSU, I learned that all SIX components of our well-being are glued together. We are more than just physical creatures, and a holistic approach looks at our emotional, spiritual, environmental, social, and mental states as well. When one shifts out of place, it affects the other categories. For example, I don't feel like being out in public socializing when I feel fat because I haven't worked out in ages! My challenge to myself every year is to set goals for my whole being. So don't just focus on specific goals for your physical self; set some reachable goals for your social, spiritual and environmental self too! Then, when 2013 rolls around, you'll be in the best OVERALL shape of your entire life!
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