May Your Days be Merry & Light: Healthy Holiday Eating

With Thanksgiving (literally) under our belts, the winter holidays are officially in full swing.

This wonderful festive season brings lots of opportunities to overindulge. You can avoid a New Year of regret if you take stock right now.

This series of Tips to Make Your Holidays Merry & Light started Saturday.

Tip 2: No More Diets!
I’ve been both underweight (by 20 lbs.) and overweight (by 40 lbs) at different stages in my life.

However I’ve maintained a healthy weight now for over 30 years and I’d like to share my secret. I love food. I love to eat. I eat whatever I want. No fat free versions of real food. No frozen low-fat yogurt. I eat real ice cream and real cheese.

How do I manage it? First let me tell you my story.

Through my diet ups and downs, food was always the enemy – something to be overcome, something to be avoided.

During my brief bout of anorexia, I gained some control over the enemy but, of course, at my own peril. I lost 13 pounds in one month. I was skin and bones but thought I looked great at 5’8” and 103 lbs.

Lucky for me, my husband didn’t agree and got me to a doctor.

To be continued tomorrow …

Tags: cravings, enjoy your food, holiday diet tips, avoid holiday weight gain, eat healthy for life, The Sonoma Diet

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