This year, avoid the holiday bloat, food coma, and weight gain—without depriving yourself. Enjoy your favorite festive foods and stay on track with your health goals using some basic strategies.

I’ll walk you through how to prepare for the holiday season, planning ahead for catered events, what to do at parties, how to order at restaurants, best practices for travel, and tricks for entertaining with the healthy recipes that are always a hit.

We’ll also cover the 80/20 approach—the best way to eat during the holidays. Then, the number-one way to prevent blood sugar spikes and crashes, foods and supplements to keep on hand, what to do after meals. and the fastest way to recover when you’ve overdone it.

The key takeaways: Stop stressing about what’s on your plate, go with your gut, and find a balance of self-care and fun.

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

Your secret weapon for avoiding the holiday food hangover: Better gut health.
Offset holiday treats with vegetables, fermented foods, and lots of water.
Show up to holiday parties with a flexible mindset having eaten something.
To minimize gas, bloating, and feeling stuffed: Eat until you’re satisfied, not full.
Take in healthy fats and protein with carbs to avoid blood sugar spikes and crashes.
Support better body balance with probiotics, enzymes, glutamine, and magnesium.
After a meal, go for a walk to aid digestion and burn off some calories.
Celebrate the holidays as a data-gathering mission, not a pass/fail test.

MEET TESS MASTERS:

Tess Masters is an actor, presenter, health coach, cook, and author of The Blender Girl, The Blender Girl Smoothies, and The Perfect Blend, published by Penguin Random House. She is also the creator of the Skinny60® health programs.

Health tips and recipes by Tess have been featured in the LA Times, Washington Post, InStyle, Prevention, Shape, Glamour, Real Simple, Yoga Journal, Yahoo Health, Hallmark Channel, The Today Show, and many others.

Tess’s magnetic personality, infectious enthusiasm, and down-to-earth approach have made her a go-to personality for people of all dietary stripes who share her conviction that healthy living can be easy and fun. Get delicious recipes at TheBlenderGirl.com.

CONNECT WITH TESS:

Website:  https://tessmasters.com/

Podcast:  https://ithastobeme.com/ 

Health Programs: https://www.skinny60.com/

Delicious Recipes: https://www.theblendergirl.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theblendergirl/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblendergirl/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/theblendergirl

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessmasters/

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