Healthy Holidays?

What are the chances that your family is going to eat healthy during the holidays?

If your family is anything like mine...it's probably slim to none. We already blew it during Thanksgiving.

The good news is there are a couple of simple measures you can take during the holidays to help the holiday season have as less an impact on your figure and overall health as possible.

• Skip soda- use pure fruit juices instead. For a great holiday drink, try apple cider.
• Use natural condiments like sugar and salt, they have not had so many things added to them like the regular kinds we usually buy from the store. They also have a pure quality in taste and they are suprisingly good.
• Cut back on the butter and bread. Try not to make a lot of bread products. If you do, don't slop a tub of butter on them.
• Try to eat the leaner meats more....people like to do different things with turkey and chicken during the holidays. Those meats usually have a whole lot less fat than ham and red meat.
• Finally, eat those vegetables. Don't leave the corn and cabbage hanging for that big piece of chocolate cake. It will do you much more good to eat more of the good stuff and then have a moderate portion of desert (moderate means subtracting at least a third of what you were planning on eating).