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The Cope-Better-With-T'is-Season
Food Choices and Practices.

Breakfast
Have something light if your meal the night before was a celebration.

• Some yoghurt with fruit might work well for you.
  
• Fruit alone can be a choice for some, but it can make you feel too cold. Omit fruit juices.
• A vegetable juice or smoothie.
  
• A simple poached egg without the english muffin.
  
• Oatmeal might seem a heavy choice, but it actually helps get the cholesterol down from the meat dishes and the fiber will assist your digestive process.

Lunch
Soup or salad might be the lighter way to go for this meal.

• Brothy soups or a vegetable puree without dairy for a lighter feel.
  
• For Salads, get green fiber rich vegetables to help you get the fats from last night moving on.
  
• Make sure not to skip lunch. You don't want to arrive at the dinner table starving since that might make you overeat.

Dinner
This meal is normally the one where we go overboard. It has been shown that a Holiday Feast can hold up to 2000-3000 calories, some even 4000. This is why many will experience the extra couple of pounds of extra weight come January. Studies have also shown that most of us loose this weight again, except about 1-2 llb. This is how we end up 5-10 llb heavier every couple of years.

So, consider this for a better Holiday meal.

• Before the meal (about 30min.), drink a nice big glass of water.
  
• Re-proportion the meal on your plate. Think of tapas style eating. Basically this means, have a small taste of everything (if everything is what you want) rather than each item on the table as a meal in itself. (Though it could be if you choose the veggies only.)
  
• Don't snack on unhealthy snacks in between meals, choose something like an apple, handful of nuts, some carrots.
  
• Omit or limit the starchy foods on the table, go for the vegetable dishes and fill up on those first as you are eating your way through the plate.
  
• If you are cooking, use good quality cooking oils like olive oil or coconut oil instead of butter.
  
• Choose to serve some fish dishes instead of just meat.
  
• Make your meat portion the size of your palm.
  
• Omit the potatoes and the bread. This will keep you from getting the fast burning sugars that get you feeling more hungry later. And for that matter will make you all tired and crash right after the meal.
  
• Pretend you are driving even if you are not to keep your alcohol intake low. Alcohol not only adds calories, it also takes away your inhibitions, which translates into the promises you made to yourself and your health before the meal. It also means you will not crave sugar and fats as much the day after.
• Plan ahead. Make choices about what you are going to eat so you are the one in control, not your cravings. Trying to decide in front of a platter of food is much harder on your will-power.
• Remind yourself that you can eat again later. Or tomorrow.

Special Path for Life Healthy Living Event
January 25th 2007 5pm - 7pm
in collaboration with Jurlique in Soho.

In preparation for Spring, come participate in an evening of inspiration to restore your body, rejuvenate your skin, and regain your energy
to start a new season. 

 For more details and to RSVP

Please contact Jurlique Soho at 212 219 3616