Healthy Holidays Series: Simple Ways to Eat Healthy and Stay Active

The holidays are full of blessings & happiness, but we also know it can be a stressful time of year! We compiled the best last minute gifts & tips to feel better faster from a cold! Plus we share how to beat the bloat & get back on track after the holidays all in our Healthy Holidays Guide!

This Healthy Holidays series is designed to help you not only stay on track with your food and workouts but also help you reduce stress and feel happier this season.

We know a lot of our motivation to workout and eat right comes from how we feel.

So it’s important to take time for a self-care routine to feel more energized during this busy season.

We are tailoring our best tips, secrets, and habits to help you stay on track this year while still enjoying your favorite foods.

With this free guide, you can skip the fatigue, stress, and weight gain this holiday season – while still enjoying yourself and have more time with your family and friends.

Your Guide to Healthy Holidays

We’ve assembled several posts to help you navigate the season. Whether you want to avoid weight gain, stress less or stay committed to your goals – we have you covered!

Nothing is off limits this time of year, but we can keep to healthy habits to feel great inside and out!

Healthy Eating

If you’re worried about sticking to your healthy eating during the holidays, you really should check out our post: Avoid Muffin Top – 13 Simple Ways to Skip the Holiday Weight Gain. In it, we outline common reasons we get off track and suggest simple tips to staying on track.

So while indulging in your favorite foods is a must, portion control also plays a role in enjoying those foods and feeling your best.

Expect to see some surprising tips to cut back without depriving yourself in this post. One tip is to survey the food options at a party before ever fixing your plate to keep you from munching just to munch.

You’ll also love our 80/20 Guide to Eating!

We also talk about getting ready for that Christmas party that’s just a day away in our Lose the Bloat Guide!

We give you 6 tips to getting a flatter belly overnight by adding in and removing certain foods from your diet. It’s just getting rid of water weight, but sometimes that’s all you need to feel amazing in that little cocktail dress.

Save Some Money

Who doesn’t like to save a little money? We love to shop online and get the best deals!

We skip Black Friday because of all of that drama (and we need sleep!).

We know how to get the best deals in our PJs! Find out our favorite cash back programs, Promo Codes, and deals!

Find the Perfect Gift

If you’re like us – sometimes finding the perfect present can be a source of stress too. We love giving the perfect gift to someone special, but we also know it can be hard to find the right thing when you have so much on your plate.

Also, if you aren’t necessarily as into health or fitness as your mom, daughter, girlfriend, dad, son, boyfriend, spouse – we have you covered with some awesome ideas!

Get Our Gift Guides:

• Your Must-Have Gift Guide for Her & Him
• Unique Health & Fitness Gifts
• Gifts for Dog Lovers
• Splurge-Worthy Fitness Stocking Stuffers
• 53 Stocking Stuffers Under $10

Goals and Mindset

Just because it’s the holiday season doesn’t mean all of your hard work and healthy habits have to go out the window.

While lots of parties, obligations, and traveling can affect our schedule, we can find a balance to stay on track to our goals.

We help you find that balance in 6 Tips to Achieve Your Healthy Goals During the Holidays.

Working Out & Staying Active

One of your goals might be sticking to a workout routine or staying active during the holidays.

Since your normal routines may be affected don’t sweat it if you need to tweak your schedule. You’re still going to be working towards your goals even if you drop down to 3 workouts a week, take a short break, or work out at home.

The important thing to remember is just do something! You don’t have to workout every day, but just going ice skating with your kids or shopping at the mall can burn extra calories.

Check out our guides to burning more calories and staying on track:

• 5 Fun Tricks to Working Out During the Holidays
• Burning Extra Calories By Celebrating the Holidays

Stress Less

Stress is such a motivation crusher. While everyone is singing and the tree is twinkling, you might still feel like a Scrooge when you look at your to-do list for the week.

If nothing else, it’s important for us to identify when we are stressed and work ourselves out of it.

This may be asking for help from your family, cutting down on gifts, or saying no to a couple of those parties. We are all about prioritizing to de-stress.

Find 5 minutes for your own self-care routine and check out our 3 Simple Tips to Stress Less During the Holidays for more help!

Another great way we like to de-stress is with a fun Christmas movie on Netflix!

Stay Healthier or Get Over a Cold Faster

It never seems to fail, someone in our family always ends up with a cold. Last year that person was me. We had been to New York City the week before Christmas, and I came back with a nasty cold.

The best way to prevent colds and illnesses is to wash your hands regularly and encourage others to do as well. Also, injuries increase in the colder months. One way to avoid a silly fall is to sprinkle sand or salt on icy patches.

If you or someone you know does catch a cold, check out our Cold Remedies – 12 Secrets to Feel Better Faster post.

Bring Something Yummy

Don’t sweat it if you’re not a baker. We used to try so hard to bake the perfect pie or cook the best turkey. Then we wised up and started buying a better pie from the bakery and ordering a turkey from a local store.

This is somewhere you can easily delegate to save your time and stress less.

If you love to cook though, we have some amazing recipes for you to try!

• 7 Yummy Pumpkin Recipes
• Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes: Paleo Vegan & Gluten-Free

Help Others

Don’t limit your healthy holidays to just you and your family. This season is the perfect time to volunteer or provide random acts of kindness.

We put together 95 Random Acts of Kindness Ideas and 2 Games to Promote Kindness.

This could be a perfect new tradition for the whole family.

Here are our best tips recapped!

Then There is the New Year

Wrapping up our healthy holidays is New Year! Whether or not you normally set a New Years Resolution or not, we have you covered on a sure fire way to set goals and actually stick to them!

Check out our New Years Resolutions Guide for another free printable outlining how to stick to your goals to have an amazing new year.

Get ready to see what it’s like Sticking to Goals That Change Your Life!

After the Holidays Are Over

Our 7 Day Sugar Detox will get you ready before a big Christmas party or help you get back on track after the holidays!

After that?

We plan on following a 80/20 approach – 80% healthy habits with 20% being left for our favorite treats. Honestly, it may even look like 70/30 some days, and that’s okay.

For our workouts, we will probably take 5 days off. A couple days before Christmas and the 26th to get the tree down and everything put up.

The main thing is finding a plan that makes YOU feel happy, confident and in a balanced lifestyle.

Whatever may happen between now and January is up to you. We all will have to find the balance we want to pursue.

We do have some fun things planned for the new year, and we’d love for you to join us!

Our  21 Day Challenge will kick off in the new year with some amazing people! It’s such a great way to kick off the new year and have a lot of fun!

We customize a plan specifically for you and your goals. You’ll receive a set of workouts, a workout schedule, and a full nutritional guide along with daily support and accountability!

The challenge does fill up quickly though so apply now to get a spot!

What is your tip or question for the Healthy Holidays series?

Make sure to get your full guide with all kinds of tips, tricks, and extras to have a healthy holiday season!