Taking the Hell Outa the Hellthy Holidays (No Matter How Much Your Aunt Guilts You to Eat All Her Pie !)
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PLANT- PARTYTHROUGH THE HOLIDAYS YOUR HO-HO-HOW TO GUIDE FOR TAKING THE HELL OUTA THE HELLTHY HOLIDAYS (NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOUR AUNT GUILTS YOU TO EAT ALL HER PIE !) PARTYINMYPLANTS.COM » @PARTYINMYPLANTS CONTENTS Your Healthy Holiday Mindset 6 Hell-Free Holiday Travel 11 Prescription Plants 20 Your General Holiday PLANt-Party PLAN 25 PLANt-Party Food 35 TROUBLESHOOTING 39 OLI-[DAY]-MOLY! HE HOLIDAYS ARE HUUURE. The 3ish-month period of time that involves hype and letdown, excitement and Tstress, healthy and unhealthy food (and lots of it!), family Hand friends, gifts and lighter wallets.... t’s pretty nuts that the big holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years are literally just 4 DAYS out of the year (except for Hanukkah - I Iknow - go with it), yet their effects (and dominance over our lives) go on for nearly three MONTHS! (How does that make ANY sense?!)It doesn’t (make any sense, that is), but it DOES bring a certain level of cheer to the year, huh? Though what good is cheer if you’re feeling too sluggish to be cheerful? And what good is jolly catchy Christmas music if you’re too stressed to bop along? Or cute new holiday clothes if you’ve gained so much weight at your office’s cookie swap to fit into them?! Well, my festive friend, the answer is (and always will be) PLANTS! Eating plants gives you the energy to wrap all the presents (and then clean up all the wrapping paper), eating plants gives you the bod to fit into your sexy velvet pants, eat plants gives you the stamina to attend all the parties and the mental clarity to pick the PERFECT presents for secret Santa. Basically, eating more PLANTS’ll make the holidays more man- ageable (and more fun). UT, you can’t have a PLANt party without a PLAN. Just like you can’t have a PUMPKIN pie without a PUMPKIN. Or a UGLY Christmas BSWEATER party without an UGLY SWEATER. Ok, you get it. You need a PLAN in order to easily party in your PLANts. And this here guide is your plan, stan. So let’s dive head first into this healthy-holiday-saving advice the way Monica dove head first into a Thanksgiving turkey in FRIENDS…(sunglasses are optional). KEEP ME IN THE LOOP! I WANT TO KNOW ALL YOUR DEETS. PARTYINMYPLANTS.COM » @PARTYINMYPLANTS [email protected] © 5 YOUR HEALTHY HOLIDAY MINDSET. THE BIGGEST ISSUES WITH THE HOLIDAYS ARE UNDOUBTEDLY EATING AND EVERYTHING THAT SURROUNDS IT: PRESSURE TO EAT TOO MUCH, GUILT AROUND EATING SOMETHING NAUGHTY, FEAR ABOUT HURTING OTHERS’ FEELINGS WHEN TURNING DOWN SOMETHING NAUGHTY, SELF-ANGER THAT YOU CAN’T SEEM TO RESIST ALL THE THEMED-GOODIES AND I’M SURE THERE ARE MANY MORE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS I’M FORGETTING. he only solution is to start talking to yourself. Not out loud like your crazy Uncle Mike, but in your head, like your wise Grandpa Joe. This holiday season, you need to become best friends with yourself. Your Tmind and your body need to be on 100% the same page. This holiday season, your body can’t be grab- bing sugar cookies and gingerbread men left and right while your mind just goes along for the unhealthy sugar-filled ride, ok? This holiday season, the same way you consult with your mirror and/or girlfriend before wearing this or that holiday dress, you’re going to consult with your mind before grabbing this or that edible whatever. HERE’S WHAT YOU’RE GONNA SAY TO YOURSELF THIS HOLIDAY SEASON: (ON THE NEXT PAGE) © 6 YOUR HEALTHY HOLIDAY MINDSET. BRING IN CHARLES DICKENS 3 GHOSTS 1.) THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS 2.) THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YOUR PAST YOUR PRESENT Look back on your life and your health journey. Food makes you feel stuff. Good stuff, bad stuff, Think about all the burpees, the lunges the laps energetic stuff, lethargic stuff...food has an around the track. Feel the sweat pouring off of immediate impact on how you feel in this here you as you held plank just a little bit longer, trying moment. SO, you have to ask yourself: “Does this to bring your body into perfect form. Flash back food match how I want to feel?” You know that a to all the times you chose salad over fries, asked pumpkin cheesecake ain’t gonna make you feel for “no cheese, please” or passed on desserts, all great. You know that an extra helping of Brussels so you could feel your absolute best. Remember instead of stuffing is going to make you feel bet- how hard you’ve worked to feel and look exactly ter than the other way around. Think about your as you do now in your hot holiday number. Now, ghost of Christmas present (aka yourself in this is it REALLY WORTH taking steps backwards to moment, right now). Think about how you want stuff some food that’ll taste good for 30 seconds? your present self to feel. Is 30 second of taste- Or to eat something that’ll help you fit in with your bud pleasure WORTH feeling the way that food’ll colleagues, or make your friends drool of envy make you feel? Asking yourself this question on IG? Maybe it is worth it - that’s up to you. But before reaching for that third portion of stuffing, perhaps it’s not. Perhaps you don’t want to dis- your twelfth cup of eggnog or that handful of honor the ghost of your past that busted its BUTT Hanukkah gelt (unless you just got a gimmel!!) to get you to where you are now. Perhaps you will prove time and again to be tremendously don’t want all that self-discipline that the ghost of helpful when making the wisest decision for your your past practiced day after day after day to go body. If you really break it down, that additional in vain. Think about it…. few bites of stuffing would be 30 seconds of pal- atable pleasure, but will leave you feeling yucky. perhaps you don’t wanna dishonor the ghost from your past who busted its BUTT to get you to where you are now. © 7 YOUR HEALTHY HOLIDAY MINDSET. The second bite, if you choose to take it, is your 3.) THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS middle bite, which will allow you to enjoy a lit- YOUR FUTURE: tle bit more if its taste or texture guilt free. Why guilt free? Because you’ve already indulged and Just like food makes you feel stuff RIGHT NOW, have decided that it was worth it (so this isn’t your food also has longer-term effects on you and nervous bite) AND you potentially have one more your bod. So remember your big picture WHY - bite left after this (so this isn’t your final “aww it’s your EMOTIONAL REASONS to eat well. You’re over” bite). celebrating the holidays, right? If you’re with your significant other (and/or their family) you want Finally, if you absolutely can’t stop after bite num- to look your best, right? If you’re with your fam- ber 2, go in for the 3rd. This is your “I’m stopping ily, you want to act your best, right? Hell, even if before I binge, bite.” You’ve now had three bites, you’re alone watching Home Alone at home, you which is more than enough to enjoy the taste and STILL want to feel your best, right?! texture, but not so much that you should feel ter- ribly guilty. Now move on with your life and enjoy So, do you really want to put crap in your body? the moment. Stuff that’ll make your velvet holiday pants, your New Years lingerie, making these famous pump- kin cookies that much harder? When you give THINK ABOUT THE “DOUBLE NO yourself consistent emotional reasons to eat for your health and then pull up those reasons REGRETS”: in moments of temptation, your big picture can 1 - Not regretting skipping a bite. easily inspire you to push aside the cheesecake. 2- Not regretting over indulging. Your goal is to find a happy medium between the PRACTICE THE 3-BITE RULE: two. Think about whether eating or restricting something will cause you to feel regret, either a When indulging in something that’s usually on regret of eating it or a regret of skipping it. The your “do-not-eat” list, (like that gingerbread mar- ideal is to be neutral, but if you feel that you will tini or that pumpkin pie) have 3, and 3 AT MOST regret, then it’s a sign you should or shouldn’t eat bites of it. the food of choice. The first bite will be be your special taste of it, from there you gauge whether or not one taste was enough. © 8 YOUR HEALTHY HOLIDAY MINDSET. REMIND YOURSELF THAT THERE’S REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU PROBABLY ANOTHER HOLIDAY CHOOSE MORE LIVING FOODS, PARTY TOMORROW… THEY MAKE YOU FEEL MORE If there was one holiday party a year, I’d say ALIVE. “hell yeah! Go buck wild, my friend!” But there’s never one holiday party a year. Hell, there’s not Raw, living plants (fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds) usually just one holiday party per HOLIDAY! So have all their nutrients in tact. Because they hav- you MUST keep that in mind when making your en’t been heated, they even come with some of holiday season food choices. Is it REALLY wise their own naturally occurring digestive enzymes, to order the apple pie dessert on a random Tues- which help our bodies break down and absorb day night at a restaurant just because it’s on the their nutrients with hardly any effort.