5 MAIN POINTERS TO MAKING THE RIGHT/ HEALTHY FOOD CHOICES

Festive seasons are always good opportunity to satisfy our cravings and explore new food items that we can enjoy. Believe me, it’s never a crime, but we have to take caution. Why? Because in this celebration moments, we add on too much weight that we have to loss and are likely to return to unhealthy eating habits. So, even if you have to celebrate the season, which has to be with food, always have it in mind that you will try to stay disciplined as much as possible. These are the main things to ensure to help yourself make the right choices.

1. Remember, balanced diet is very important, so look out for healthy items in the menu if you have to eat out.

2. In a situation where you cannot control your cravings for unhealthy meals at that particular time, ask that the extra be packed for you to take home. This will prevent you from eating so much during your Christmas, valentine etc. or other celebration dates. You can keep the extras for other days. At least you will still be happy you tasted those meals.

3. This is the time to make the cautious effort to add extra time to loose additional weight you might have added. So if you use to exercise for 1 hour, three times a week, then you have to increase it after each festive period until you are back to your regular weight according to you BMI (Body Mass Index)

4. Encourage and ask your spouse, dates, family or friends to visit restaurants that serve healthy meals where you are located.

5. You just have to watch your portions. Very important. You can’t eat it all. It is better you leave the rest for the next day rather than trying to eat too much. The fact is that, the food is not running anywhere, so keep the left over for another day.

6. On the other hand, you can also choose to have the festive celebration in your house or one of your friends or family’s house to ensure that your menu contains only healthy meals. So, it means, you have to all come up with a list of food, healthy and tasty meals to prepare. I could go for grilled fish, chicken (I don’t eat the skin), salads, snail … these and many more are good choices we can make.

Some of the choices you can make:

1. Smoked fish

2. Roasted chicken (eat without the skin)

3. Salad that has protein in it

4. Snail

5. Shawama without the sausage

6. Pizza with vegetable and unprocessed protein toppings and blue chess etc.