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Don’t Tip the Scale with Thanksgiving Eating Tips

in The Too Busy to Diet Blog on November 5, 2013

• Remember holidays are a time to celebrate relationships. De-emphasize food and enjoy having fun with special people.
• Aim for not gaining any weight during the holidays. Watch your portions, eat slowly, and keep up your exercise routine.
• Bring a vegetable plate and low calorie dip or a fruit plate to parties to insure available healthy foods.
• Eat foods served only on Thanksgiving like stuffing, pumpkin pie, or cranberries and budget them into your meal plan.
• Try cooking with lower calorie ingredients such as fat-free chicken broth to baste the turkey and make gravy. Use sugar substitute whenever possible or use less sugar in dessert recipe. Use plain yogurt or fat-free sour cream in dips, mashed potatoes, and casseroles.
• Pick out your favorite food before filling your plate. Fill the rest of the plate with vegetables and turkey. Vegetables will allow you high fiber filling you up.
• A typical turkey meal would include: turkey (white meat preferable), vegetables with healthy light margarine, roasted sweet potatoes, lower fat gravy, stuffing or mashed potatoes, and pumpkin or apple pie.

*For more holiday eating tips, try our book, “Too Busy to Diet”