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While Thanksgiving is the anchor of the holiday season, and the one that most focuses on food, all those subsequent parties and holiday get togethers, culminating in New Years celebrations can wreak havoc on your waistline. To get through this holiday season without going up a dress size, try these tips suggested by Paige Waehner:
- Eat Before You Go. Rules to live by: never go grocery shopping while hungry, and similarly, never hit a holiday party on an empty stomach. You’ll be less tempted to overindulge if your belly’s full of something healthy.
- Choose One Treat. Once at the party, choose one thing to indulge in and make it good. No chips — you can have those any old time. Pick something you only get during the holidays.
- Control Your Drinking. Alcohol is an easy way to consume more calories than you need, so avoid mixed or fruity drinks, and have a glass of water for every drink you consume. Also, definitely avoid the egg nog; it has up to 350 calories a cup.
- Don’t Skip Meals. It’s tempting to skip meals to make up for whatever nightmare food you’ll eat later, but just like the empty-stomach rule, if you’re starving, your rational mind will be unavailable for healthy food choices. Eat small meals all day to avoid going nuts at the buffet table.
When the temperature drops my nails dry out so quickly that it is all I can do to keep them from splitting and chipping. And with dry cracked nails come dry cracked cuticles that bleed and hurt and look awful. I have tried all sorts of creams and lotions and fancy oils but nothing seemed to help. (And the fact that I pick at my ragged cuticles doesn’t help either!) Recently a friend suggested that I rub plain old olive oil – the kind we all keep in big bottles in our kitchens – into my nails and cuticles twice a day. Skeptical at first, I figured I had nothing to lose and started rubbing oil into my nails in the morning and before bed. After a week of olive oiling my nails I’m please to admit that my nails really look better. It’s taking a while to get used to the smell, but the noticeable improvement will keep me dipping into my little olive oil dish.
and it usually either helps me totally avoid getting a cold altogether OR helps me kick the cold twice as fast. No joke, it’s the most effective and natural thing I have found that actually helps me get over a cold faster.
