Holiday Hooplah

Happy Holiday Season Everyone!

Well the time is upon us where good cheer abounds, and unfortunately high calorie food as well.  We completed our first day of thanksgiving leftovers and I feel bloated enough for a week.  This is going to be a tough challenge for me to attempt to keep some resemblance of a healthy eating style, but I have confidence that I can meet the challenge.

It's funny, I had no problem passing on the pies this year, but the snacks consisting of crackers and the cheese totally broke me down.  I see a lot of my old eating habits creeping up in this area.  I was never a big sweets guy, but the breads, chips, and crackers killed me.  I think that is a huge part of trying to maintain a healthy eating style.....understand the patterns of the habits you had before the change and recognize the subtle tendencies of heading back in that direction. Two days of heading down that path of eating is plenty for me.  Now that I recognize it, its time to make a U-turn.

It also helps to find a healthy event to participate in during the holidays.  This year we ran a 10k race on thanksgiving morning.  There were 4000 people there and it was an absolute blast.  I ended up finishing in 54 minutes and I felt a lot better about eating that stuffing with my turkey afterward.  Lots of alternatives out there besides sitting on the sidelines if we can simply take the time to find them.