Hello, I'm Monica Rinegal, and you're listening to the Nutrition Diva Podcast Welcome.

Today, I'm going to share my top tips on how you can enjoy the holidays without throwing

all of your healthy habits under the bus.

We're in the thick of the holiday season now, and it's a time when many of us really

struggle to keep our healthy habits going.

As all of the extra treats and disruption in our routines, it feels like every day is

a cheat day, and it may be tempting to just decide that you'll throw in the towel and

pick up the pieces on January 1st.

But before you do that, I have three time-tested strategies that can help things from feeling

quite so out of control.

Holiday Tip Number One is to cultivate your inner food snob.

Now, I'm not talking about being hypercritical or looking down your nose at anyone that's

not in the holiday spirit.

But with so many treats and indulgences everywhere we look, we can afford to be, and really,

we need to be extra choosy about which ones we're going to enjoy.

For example, there's a lot of cheap chocolate around at this time of year, and just because

it's wrapped in green and red foil instead of silver, doesn't actually make it taste

any better.

I don't eat cheap chocolate at other times of the year, I'm not even tempted to.

I hold out for the good stuff, and then I eat it in small quantities.

But for some reason, my normally high standards seem to fall apart as soon as those tiny

chocolate santa's hit the scene.

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