This document discusses strategies for healthy eating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle during the holiday season. It identifies common challenges like stress, diet, and exercise and factors that can contribute to weight gain. It then provides tips for combating stress through deep breathing, taking breaks, and maintaining a positive mindset. Suggestions are also given for strategies like breaking up exercise into smaller sessions and building activity into daily routines. The document recommends eating right by avoiding extra sugar, drinking water, and slowing down eating. It emphasizes the importance of regular weigh-ins, calorie tracking, exercise, and having an accountability partner for weight maintenance.

1. Healthy Eating
During the
Holidays
Hannah Ladeau

2. What are some
challenges you run into
during the holiday
season?

3. Diet
Exercise
Stress
Factors that Effect Weight Gain

4. Stress?
 What are factors that increase stress for you?
 How do you cope with stress?

5. What is the Effect of Stress
 Cortisol
 Stress affect on exercise and weight

6. Strategies to Combat Stress
 Deep breathing
 Take a break
 Think positively
 Break up projects into little projects
 Eat right
 Exercise
 Sleep

7. How does Exercise Effect

8. Strategies to Exercise
 Break it up
 Build it in early
 Do a little walk before largest meal of the day
 Involve family

9. Eating Right
 Ghrelin and leptin

10. Strategies to Eat Right
 Avoid extra sugar
 Drink water
 Put fork down between bites
 SLOW DOWN!
 Try not to drink calories

11. Maintenance
 Weigh-ins regularly
 Keep track of calories
 Exercise regularly
 Accountability partner