Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutrition and Weight and Wellness.

Now that we are in the thick of the holiday season, you may already be feeling like you've over-indulged in treats over the past few weeks.

Today we're going to be talking about a topic that sneaks up on almost everyone this time of year.

Those holiday treats, they feel like they are everywhere you turn.

So we're going to talk about how do you navigate them while still enjoying the season and feeling good coming up on the new year.

I am Brittany Vincent, a registered and licensed dietitian.

And with me today to share her advice and getting through the holidays is my co-host, Brandy Burrow, who is also a registered and licensed dietitian.

Well, thanks, Brittany. It's good to be here with you. Yeah. And you're right. This is the time of year. It's just it's hard to avoid the treats. They're everywhere. Everywhere you turn. Work parties, school events. There's the cookie exchange. Yep. You might be gifted some treats.

They might be thrust upon you.

Yeah.

Whether you like it or not. That's right.

So it's like we're just kind of like immersed in this environment that it's challenging.

And even as dietitians, we have to navigate this and try to come up with strategies to stay on top of our nutrition and our health throughout it all.

And I think a lot of people might assume that as dietitians, we always eat perfectly, we're never tempted by this kind of thing.

But that's just not true.

Yeah, it's not true.

We're humans.

And we've had to figure out how to navigate

special occasions and holidays just like everybody else does. So today we're going to be sharing

some of the strategies that work for us, getting through the holidays while feeling our best.

And really it doesn't mean that we're not partaking in some of those treats or enjoying ourselves.

It's not total deprivation.

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