Avoid Gaining 5 Pounds This Holiday Season W/ KRISTEN'S 12 DAYS OF WELLNESS Story by Kristen Coffield of The Culinary Cure
The average American packs on five to seven pounds over the holidays, and most of us will hang on to at least one of those pounds for the foreseeable future. That is in an average year! 2020 might be a year for the record books! YIKES! Instead of dealing with those pounds as New Year's resolutions, start now with 12 days of wellness and avoid the weight gain altogether. It is easy to avoid the holiday tsunami of calories in sugar, sodium, refined carbohydrates, and processed fats with smarter habits that serve us better. I love simple swaps that seamlessly make our lives healthier and our waistlines happier. In other words, we can actually have a little bit of cake and eat it too! December is the sweetest month of the year. Treats show up everywhere; and quarantine has inspired even the worst cooks and bakers to double down on their culinary offerings. Which means December is a neverending month of bad calories. Not only do all those
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calories pile on the pounds, they significantly contribute to inflammation -- and inflammation is linked to every horrible lifestyle disease we want to avoid. In the spirit of making the 2020 holiday season fun in spite all the COVID-19 restrictions and global insanity, here are twelve tips that can actually help you lose weight and feel great.
