With Halloween rapidly approaching, we have officially arrived at Food Season. It is never easy to make healthy food choices in our sugar-and-fat-and-salt-obsessed culture, but between now and January, we are going to be basically bombarded with cake, candy, gravy, pie, latkes, bacon, stuffing, and chocolate. How do we survive?
Like with everything else: we pay attention. Of course we want to have some of Aunt Gertrude’s special peanut brittle, but we can notice that we’re actually satisfied with a few bites rather than an entire pound of it. Note: this means we can have some LATER! Also note: if it does turn out that we want a whole pound of it, the world will not end. We will still be valuable human beings, worth far more than whatever number the scale shows us.
We also practice our tact. “Yes, Aunt Gertrude, it is truly delicious and I love that you made this for me. I just want to save some to share with Cousin Jimmy, too.” A lot of people (myself included) think that loving people means feeding them. We have to be sure to acknowledge the love even when we decline the third helping.
We move. It is not possible to out-exercise an entire cake, but our good exercise habits will help burn off some of the extra calories. Cardio is good, but doing some weight training will also improve our metabolisms.
Worst case? We enjoy our holidays. I hope we savor all the good parts and skip the less good parts.
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