Eating delicious food and enjoying your time with family tend to be the focus for Thanksgiving, and that’s fantastic (especially if you’re making a healthy meal) yet the central activity of the day shouldn’t be forgotten: Thanks-giving = Giving thanks.
On this wonderful holy day, remember to take the time to meditate on gratitude. Read More…
It IS possible to have a healthy Thanksgiving meal that won’t put you in a coma or slide you face first into flu season, without sacrificing taste. Every year, we gather as a family to cook and eat to our heart’s content, and the menu is so nutritional that we avoid illness and weight-gain while keeping the flavor and fun. If you’re not “healthifying” your holiday meals, now is a good time to start, and see if you can keep “health” and “lose 20 lbs.” off of your New Year’s Resolutions list. Read More…
The holiday season does not need to be the weight-gain season. Or the unhealthy, eat-until-I-pass-out season (or the flu season, and, yes, it is all related. But that’s for another article.) Your Thanksgiving dinner can be a wonderful, tasty, nutritious feast that is also easy to digest and won’t cost you a single pant or dress size. Here are a few options to help you this Thanksgiving: Read More…
Ahhh, Turkey Day…or was it Harvest Day? Unless you were there in 1621 when the first supposed unofficial Thanksgiving feast (and this date is also debatable) took place, and we seriously doubt you were (but if you were, what’s your secret? You look FAB!), nobody knows if there was ever even a turkey served as part of this important colonial meal. In fact, if you do your digging about this now annual North American holiday, you’ll find that Thanksgiving was not “turkey day” as it is marketed in the United States today. In fact, Thanksgiving, was AN AUTUMN HARVEST FEAST celebrating the collaboration of the Native Americans with the Plymouth colonists to finally successfully grow corn and learn how to work other crops in the new land. Yes, Thanksgiving was a veggie day. Read More…
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We’re all thankful for what we have. The people we love, the friends we make, the house, the job, the car – all of these gifts add to our lives on a daily basis and, yes, we are and should definitely be thankful for them.
But there is more to be thankful for, including the very things we may see as difficulties. Consider these:
- I am thankful for my car breaking down, because this gave me the opportunity to be humble and ask for help – and for someone special to show me true friendship, for me to learn that you can be surprised by the people that you least expect to be, surprised by, and for the Universe to reinforce my belief that everything – even what appears to be “bad luck” – happens for a good reason. Read More…
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Everything we do in life is a program. Yes, you read it right – programs in our mind, about what we do, when we do it, how we do it, why, etc…How is this related to healthy tips for Thanksgiving? Well, here is your chance to reprogram your holiday eating and shopping habits. Stuffing your face with unhealthy food that lowers your immune system (an open invitation for viruses to enter your body) is a thing of the past. Welcome to the new world…
The following are some suggestions and alternatives for you to create new habits during the holidays. Or should I say, to reprogram yourself: Read More…
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