Holiday Diet Bombs - Be Aware

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

11 Dec 2006 10:00 AM

It's important to remember when you are out there hustling to through the Christmas shopping, getting stuck in traffic and skipping meals in your hurry to get from Point A to Point B that it's not very healthy for your diet to forgo eating only to make it up by grabbing a fast bite somewhere. This is part of the holiday trade off - you should take advantage of your opportunities to eat - but you also have to be careful that you aren't ingesting a bomb of calories, fat and saturated fats that not only fills your stomach, but overfills your dietary need.

Did you know for example that grabbing an Individual Farmer's Market Vegetable Deep Dish Pizza - that sounds healthy and tasty right? It's a fast meal and veggies make it pretty good for fitness and a diet. The problem with that idea though is that this little individual pizza packs an amazing 2,330 calories, 111 grams of fat and 38 grams of saturated fat.

Yes - that's basically all the calories you might consume in an entire day in that one little quick individual meal.

So, maybe you decide to grab a soft pretzel instead. Pretzels are pretty healthy and they are generally diet friendly, right? Especially if you forgo the cinnamon and sugar or the salt and just go for the soft pretzel. Well - just one is 483 calories so while you may be hotfooting it around the mall, you'd need to be sure that you were walking for at least 2 hours and 18 minutes at a brisk pace to burn off the calories packed into this nibble.

The fact is - in all the hustle and bustle, our nutrition goes out the window. We have too much to do, we have so many places to be and so many things to get done. Half the time it seems lately, my workout goes right out the window because I'm now using those couple of hours in the morning for work that I can't get done in the rest of the day.

This isn't the healthy choice and I recognize that - so today I'm making some changes - if I have to do my lose my workout in the morning - then my lunchtime workout is coming back for a while. So that means every day at lunch, we have at least a 30 minute walk to perform - what are you doing to avoid those diet bombs and maintain your fitness during the busy holiday season?

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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