How to stay fit over the holidays

With the holidays around the corner, and snow flurries on the ground, who has the motivation to exercise? This is always the busiest time of year, and easiest time to forget your diet. Here are some ways to stay on track over the holidays and cold winter days.

Diet:
www.foodfit.com is a website that has recipes for holiday cooking that is low in fat. Cooking your own food, with low fat products like extra virgin olive oil and avoiding using fatty ingredients like butter and grease is an easy way to watch what you eat over the holiday. If you are having a house full of people over, you are probably not the only one on a diet. Even if people are not on a diet, healthy cooking is a great idea to keep your diet, and everyone elses, on track. If you are going somewhere else for the holidays, ask them if there is anything they want you to bring, and if so, make sure you make that low fat. The holidays do not have to be an excuse to eat poorly, take the opportunity to try new recipes and make healthy low fattening foods.

Exercise:
Ask for a treadmill, a stationary bike, or a weight set for Christmas. It is cold outside and getting the motivation to layer up to go for a run is hard. Doing some cardio or weights inside is a good alternative. Another plus to working out inside, is you can do it at anytime, (you don’t have to wait for daylight) and you can watch TV to pass the time. It can be on your own schedule and entertaining at the same time.

Kathleen Zelman from WedMD writes a great article with more ideas like these above.