Healthy Eating Tips for the Holidays by Dr. Mommy
This week on Angie’s Losing It and Loving It blog, Dr. Daisy Sutherland (aka Dr. Mommy) shared her tips for healthy eating during the holiday season. In looking through her list I’ve seen a few things that I am doing (yeah me! – hey gotta celebrate the success right?) And a few things I”m not.
On the Doing Good Side:
Her tip on choosing nuts or veggies intead of the salty chips and dips resonated with me. Lately I’ve been replacing my Friday night salt snack with almonds, mostly unsalted but a couple times with roasted and salted.
They cost a little more, but I don’t eat nearly as much. And they are healthier for me – healthy fats, fiber, protein, Vitamin E (good for the immune system) – whereas popcorn and chips are just empty nutrition.
On the NEED to IMPROVE side:
Daisy shares that we need to AVOID the value menu on the drive thru (bummer, that’s how I stay in budget). Actually I don’t think we need to completely avoid the value menu, but make better choices on the value menu.
For example, I have a habit of ordering a diet soda and french fries – BAD!! because I’m getting them because they are fast and easy to eat in the car while driving (NOT GOOD).
Instead, I should be grabbing something healthier – like a plain baked potato or mardarin oranges (at Wendy’s) or a yogurt & fruit parfait (from McDonald’s). AND I should not be eating on the run in the car.
But hey, swapping those fries out for a McDonald’s Fruit & Yogurt Parfait would make a HUGE difference. Looking at the nutrition stats – we’re only talking 2 grams of fat and 160 calories in the parfait where the the value fries are 11 grams of fat and 230 calories (and guess what – I rarely get the value fries; it’s usually the large fries.) And I do like the parfait… so here’s to making better choices!
So, Care to Share what you are doing good on and what you are working on?
Photo Credits:
Almonds by tiny banquet committee and Fries by Judy Baxter
I’m doing good on water intake and exercise (well, not for the last month but I’m getting back to it after dental issues). But portions have gotten out of control for me once again and the scale shows. So I have been trying to be more cautious with that and choosing better foods too.
Used to always eat fast food but cut down drastically over the last 4 years. It’s hard to take the smell of those McDonalds fries, grease city yuck! Much rather have baked sweet potato fries oh yea!
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