Post-holiday bloat? 7 tips to reset and nourish your body

After an amazing Thanksgiving Day celebration, it's time to refocus on our nutrition and get back on track! 🎉🌱

 

Here are some tips to help you reset and nourish your body after enjoying those delicious holiday treats:

Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate

Start by hydrating your body with plenty of water. Proper hydration supports digestion, helps flush out toxins, and replenishes your system. Aim to drink enough water throughout the day to keep yourself refreshed and revitalized.

Fill Up on Fresh Fruits and Veggies

Load up your plate with an abundance of colorful fruits and vegetables. These nutrient-rich powerhouses will provide you with essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, while keeping your meals light and refreshing.

Prioritize Lean Proteins

Enjoy some of that leftover turkey with some spring greens. Protein is essential for muscle repair and satiety, helping you feel satisfied and preventing overeating.

Embrace Whole Grains

Opt for whole grains like quinoa, brown rice, or whole wheat bread instead of refined carbohydrates. Whole grains are packed with fiber, providing sustained energy and promoting better digestion.

Mindful Portion Control

Pay attention to portion sizes and listen to your body's hunger and fullness cues. Enjoy your meals slowly, savoring each bite, and stop eating when you feel comfortably satisfied.

Plan and Prep

Set yourself up for success by planning and prepping your meals ahead of time. Having nutritious options readily available makes it easier to make healthy choices and avoids relying on unhealthy convenience foods.

Get Moving

Engage in physical activity that you enjoy, whether it's a brisk walk, a workout session, or a dance class. Exercise boosts your metabolism, improves mood, and helps you feel energized.

 

Remember, it's all about balance and consistency. Don't be too hard on yourself for indulging during the festivities. By adopting these healthy habits, you'll get back on track and continue your journey towards optimal health.

 

For a nutritional reset any time of year, try a 3-day reset or a 21-day reset, guaranteed to nourish your body for optimal function.

 

Cheers to a refreshing post-holiday reset! Let's nourish our bodies, embrace wellness, and keep striving for our health goals. 💪🥗🌟

How to Eat to Live and NOT Live to Eat

Eating is an essential part of life. We cannot sustain life for long without eating, so it is important that we take the time to learn how to eat well in order to have the best life possible. Our views of eating and the eating practices we adopt will affect our lives and our health in significant ways in the months and years ahead. Eating well can literally change everything.

Eating can be both a blessing and a curse. Many people struggle with eating because they cannot keep it in balance. They end up eating too little or too much and do not live healthy lives because of it. We all know the dangers of eating too little. Probably everyone has at least one friend that struggles with an eating disorder of some kind. That friend just cannot seem to get a grip on their eating patterns and they are unhealthy because of it. They think about or talk about food almost constantly.

Other people struggle with eating too much. Eating more food than we need to live is something that the majority of people, at least in the West, struggle with. Eating is associated with most kinds of social activities and events and therefore people learn to eat for reasons other than to satisfy hunger or prolong their health. Eating becomes a way to experience pleasure or to numb the pains of life.

The bottom line is that whether people struggle with eating too little or with indulging on food too much, they are not using food in ways that are healthy and life-enhancing. Eating, while it is definitely meant to bring people pleasure and satisfaction, is primarily to be a means of sustaining a healthy life. Our problems begin anytime eating is neglected or indulged in beyond what is necessary.

Take a look at your eating patterns. You may be surprised to see that you have established unhealthy eating habits over the years. Perhaps your schedule for each day is centered around when you can have meals or a snack. If so, there is a high chance that food has become a bit too high of a priority. Anytime that your thoughts are consumed with food, whether with restraining yourself from it or with consuming more of it, you are thinking of eating and of food in unhealthy ways.

Giving eating a rightful place in our lives without allowing it to become consuming is the key. Make an effort to keep your perspective about eating balanced and healthy. Your life will be better and longer because of it.

Beginners Guide To Healthy Eating

If you’re currently not eating a healthy diet, it can be difficult to start such a plan. However, healthy eating along with some exercise is very important for maintaining a good bodily function and goes a long way towards living a disease-free life. If you struggle with healthy eating, then you know that breaking unhealthy habits can be the most difficult part of the process. Therefore, if you truly want to live the best lifestyle possible, it is important to follow tips in order to start eating a healthier diet. 

Get rid of temptation.

A great first step when you want to start eating your way to a healthy lifestyle is to rid your home of all temptations that will distract you from following better eating habits. Ideally it would be a wise course to keep junk foods and beverages out of your house so as not be tempted to snack during the day. If you’re worried about getting hungry, keep healthy snacks like carrot sticks, yogurt, fresh fruit, or whole-wheat crackers on hand. If you find that you just cannot bear to toss out the sweets, try keeping something tiny on hand, peppermints or barley sugar. Eating a few, (emphasis on few) of these won’t ruin your diet but also will give you that little sugary fix you crave.

Learn how to listen to your body.

Another great step to healthy eating, when you’re first starting the process, is to take a few moments to learn what foods are the healthiest for you and how they work within the body. To begin healthy eating, we must start with a healthy mindset. Most people understand that fruits, vegetables, and lean meats and dairy products are good for you, but few people understand why. The key is learning about nutrients. When you understand how specific nutrients work and why you need them, it becomes more reasonable for you to make healthier choices for your body. Knowledge really is power!

Preparation is a major key when starting a new healthy diet. 

You must take into consideration your schedule for meals. If you often eat in a hurry at odd times of day, you are probably more inclined to grab fast food which will probably do more harm than good. So, plan ahead! Instead of grabbing a fast-food lunch on the go, take a bagged lunch to work, complete with a healthy wrap and some fresh fruit and vegetables. Remember not to forget your evening meal, a simple plan to have a meal ready before you get home would be perfect, but in our fast-paced lifestyle, sometimes this just can’t be done. One way to solve this problem is to plan out your evening meals for the week, on your days off. Perhaps just before you do your weekly shopping. Another warning: when going to the supermarket, do not go food shopping hungry because if you're anything like me, one or two chocolate bars won’t hurt! That becomes the first break in your healthy eating. 

Initially, many will find it very difficult to make those necessary changes to healthier eating. Along with the difficulty of change, you may not feel well for a short period of time. Usually this is normal as your body is adjusting to your new and improved lifestyle and is cleansing itself from the unhealthy toxins built up from poor eating habits. However, if this feeling continues or you are worried a visit to your doctor would be the correct thing to do.

Start with baby steps and give yourself some grace. 

Even if you only replace one soda a day with a glass of water, you are really improving your calorie intake. If you eat fast food every day for lunch, try replacing that half of the time with better quality foods. When you start by taking small steps you aren’t cutting out all the foods you love all at once. By taking your time to learn about your eating habits and slowly replacing them with better meals, by taking the time to learn and understand why you should be doing that and making the necessary changes in an orderly fashion, you will feel much better within yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally and well on the road to becoming as healthy as you can be.

The Top 10 Healthy Eating Habits That Gets You Results

 

In a nutshell, a healthy diet involves:

(1) More home-cooked food, less eating out.

(2) More fresh fruit as snacks.

(3) More fresh vegetables as snacks and with meals.

(4) More beans as sides or in stews.

(5) More dense chewy bread, less refined white breads and bread snacks.

(6) More fish, skinless chicken/turkey, less red meat.

(7) Smaller servings of red meat, larger servings of vegetables.

(8) Eating low fat dairy foods.

(9) Adding less fat in the form of butter, mayo, sour cream, to the food on your plate. This is a huge source of excessive calories.

(10) Stocking up with healthy snack foods to keep hunger at bay. If you fill up with healthy nutritious calories, you won't want the junk foods that hunger makes you eat. As far as weight management goes, hunger remains Public Enemy Number One.

🎆🌽 7 tips for Post-Fourth of July Reset 🍉

After an amazing celebration of Independence Day, it's time to refocus on our nutrition and get back on track! 🎉🌱

Here are some tips to help you reset and nourish your body after enjoying those delicious holiday treats:

Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate

Start by hydrating your body with plenty of water. Proper hydration supports digestion, helps flush out toxins, and replenishes your system. Aim to drink enough water throughout the day to keep yourself refreshed and revitalized.

Fill Up on Fresh Fruits and Veggies

Load up your plate with an abundance of colorful fruits and vegetables. These nutrient-rich powerhouses will provide you with essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, while keeping your meals light and refreshing.

Prioritize Lean Proteins

Incorporate lean proteins like grilled chicken, fish, tofu, or legumes into your meals. Protein is essential for muscle repair and satiety, helping you feel satisfied and preventing overeating.

Embrace Whole Grains

Opt for whole grains like quinoa, brown rice, or whole wheat bread instead of refined carbohydrates. Whole grains are packed with fiber, providing sustained energy and promoting better digestion.

Mindful Portion Control

Pay attention to portion sizes and listen to your body's hunger and fullness cues. Enjoy your meals slowly, savoring each bite, and stop eating when you feel comfortably satisfied.

Plan and Prep

Set yourself up for success by planning and prepping your meals ahead of time. Having nutritious options readily available makes it easier to make healthy choices and avoids relying on unhealthy convenience foods.

Get Moving

Engage in physical activity that you enjoy, whether it's a brisk walk, a workout session, or a dance class. Exercise boosts your metabolism, improves mood, and helps you feel energized.

Remember, it's all about balance and consistency. Don't be too hard on yourself for indulging during the festivities. By adopting these healthy habits, you'll get back on track and continue your journey towards optimal health.

For a nutritional reset any time of year, try a 3-day reset or a 21-day reset, guaranteed to nourish your body for optimal function.

Cheers to a refreshing post-Fourth of July reset! Let's nourish our bodies, embrace wellness, and keep striving for our health goals. 💪🥗🌟