{"id":5099,"date":"2018-12-06T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thrivetogether.com.au\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:25:50","slug":"how-to-better-manage-eating-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/how-to-better-manage-eating-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Better Manage Eating At Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas can revolve around food for a lot of people. There tends to be a heap of options to choose from and a massive quantity of it. To top it off it tends to be rich and flavourful &#8211; and I&#8217;m not even thinking about the sweets or offer!<\/p>\n<p>So here is my approach to eating at Christmas:<\/p>\n<h2>1 &#8211; Only eat choose to eat the foods you will actually enjoy.<\/h2>\n<p>Why bother taking in calories for the sake of eating foods that you don&#8217;t really enjoy?? There is no pleasure to be gained from that!<\/p>\n<h2>2 &#8211; Keep portions of each food you choose to eat, moderate or small.<\/h2>\n<p>If you plan to try just about everything on offer, make the portions smaller:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If there are 5 different meats on offer, take a small piece of each<\/li>\n<li>If there are richly dressed salads, 0.5 to 1 spoon of each &#8211; if you can try to reduce the salad dressing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>3 &#8211; Savour the flavours.<\/h2>\n<p>When you do eat the foods you enjoy and have smaller portions, take the time to appreciate the flavours. You won&#8217;t feel the needs to eat as much in order to satisfy your desire to eat it.<\/p>\n<h2>4 &#8211; Remember, it takes 20 mins for your brain to register you are full<\/h2>\n<p>Eat slower so your brain can keep up with your stomach. If you do think about going back for seconds. Wait 15 mins and then see how you feel.<\/p>\n<h2>5 &#8211; If there are too many choices you REALLY must have, wait for the next meal<\/h2>\n<p>If you are comfortable doing so, ask for a &#8220;doggy bag&#8221; or if you plan to be at the the same even all da and into the night, wait until the next meal.<\/p>\n<h2>6 &#8211; Keep in mind that food is available all year round.<\/h2>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t get to try or sample everything you want to, don&#8217;t forget there are another 364 days in a year. You can always try it another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to keep your eating in check Christmas Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}