It’s always very challenging to make healthy choices at gatherings during the holidays. Not everyone at the party will want to abide by a healthy diet, and you’re easily surrounded by foods made with refined sugar and gluten, or other dishes that are highly processed with no nutritional value. However, if you’re trying to change your lifestyle and don’t want to succumb to eating foods that won’t offer any benefits and subject yourself to weight gain, here are my tips to help prevent yourself from overeating and giving into consuming unhealthy food:
Drink water before meals to help your digestion: When you drink two big glasses of water at least 30 minutes before eating a meal, it will make you feel full, which causes you to eat less and you’ll be hydrated! It’s actually not recommended to drink water during a meal, contrary to what we’ve been accustomed to. When you drink during meals, your naturally occurring digestive enzymes and stomach acids are diluted, and will make it harder to digest food. If you need to hydrate during your meal, drink warm water because the temperature will be closer to your body’s natural heat and won’t disrupt your digestion. I like to enjoy a peppermint tea right after a meal to aid with digestion, but if I want to have a cold beverage, I wait at least an hour after consuming a meal.
Fill your plate with mostly vegetables: Any type of vegetable is good for you and packed with nutrients that protect your body. If there are any vegetables that appeal to your palate, try filling more than half your plate with those, instead of starchy foods and complex carbohydrates. Plus, they’re full of fiber that will trick your body into feeling full and you won’t feel like you’ll have food coma.
Skip the pie or limit yourself to only one slice: Since pies and desserts are made with refined sugar, I personally won’t be eating them, unless it’s sweetness comes from fruit, like dates or maple syrup. Thankfully, I found one that made by This Is Nuts, that I will be sharing with my loved ones. It is paleo friendly, vegan, and free of gluten, refined sugars, soy or ingredients I can’t pronounce. But since we are human and many of you don’t have a strict diet like mine, it’s OK to indulge a bit. If you do, I encourage you to try your best and only consume one slice of pie this Thanksgiving 🙂
Honor and give thanks to your body: Our bodies are incredible and we should always express gratitude towards it. It’s very easy for us to compare ourselves to other body’s that are of another shape and size, but you were given yours to experience a unique journey in life. We need to love our body and trust that that it’s here to experience a certain path that be unlike any else’s. It’s already a miracle that we exist, so I encourage you to give thanks to your body more than ever today, and honor it by fueling it with nutrient rich foods that will allow it to function at it’s best.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones today, and I want to this moment to thank you for your love, encouragement and support with Natural Nadine. Every single one of you who read my posts, comment and like my content, inspires me every single day to seek out more knowledge and share it, in order to make a difference and help elevate peoples health to the next level!
Naturally,
Nadine
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