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can't you just smell them cookies
casseroles candy eggnog you know cider
the holidays bring out the baking and
all the goodies and all of us all the
sugar and butter
yeah no surprise that most of our
favorite holiday meals are loaded with
calories but there are ways believe it
or not to stay healthy this time of year
balanced everyone we need to balance
there are also ways to stay energized
during what can be very exhausting time
of the area joining us down with some
healthy living hacks nutrition health
coach and speaker Carly Paige thank you
so much for joining us so with some
healthy and living snacks tutition
health coach you kind of see people kind
of work really hard all year long and
then all of a sudden it just kind of
falls apart the last two months of the
year what can you tell people to kind of
inspire them to keep on going yeah well
if you think about it two months it's a
lot of time in the midst of a year and
you put in so much hard work to really
let it all go over the holidays so just
like I tell people when they go out to
eat going out to eat is not a vacation
for your taste buds right so the
holidays is not a vacation for all of
these healthy habits that you've been
building and it's just all about these
simple swaps and things that become
mindless and incorporating into your day
to just stick to healthier habits
throughout the holidays and then giving
you stuff too and really enjoying time
with family and friends and not beating
yourself up if you do over indulge but
what to do you know and get back into
the next right and I find you know I'm
sure we've all experienced this you know
here in the newsroom this is the time of
year where it's like a parade of cookies
and things like that people are always
like oh you can have just one for me one
turns into twelve like if I have one
doughnut I'm just might as well eat the
whole box so I just tried to skip it so
what do you tell people about kind of
dealing with the pressure to get in like
Oh treat yourself like no I worked hard
not to like go off the rails yeah I
think a lot of people think that they're
going to offend someone by saying no but
taking charge if your health is really
about taking responsibility for saying
no and
the responsibility of keeping yourself
in check so I totally hear you I would
be one to eat the whole donut box so my
big trip sorry tip is to always come
with a backup so always be prepared with
healthy treats healthy recipes and find
ways to make healthier versions of your
favourite and audiences which is all at
what I promote on my website and in my
book and things like that
so what are some examples of some of
those healthy swaps so the holidays are
all about baking right yes
so one of my favorite swaps is
all-purpose flour for half almond flour
which is full of protein it's just made
from almonds yeah and oat flour which is
full of fiber one of my other favorite
swaps is coconut sugar which is low
glycemic so it's not going to spike your
blood sugar levels for brown sugar or
really processed weight sugars so it's
just a little bit healthier but isn't
going to take away from the taste and
texture of your favorite baked so are
you saying we can put in half almond
flour for half of the flour it calls for
and so if you have 1 cup all-purpose
flour you would do 1/2 cup almond flour
and half cup of oat flour so you still
come out to one cup of flour it's
alright yeah flour helps absorb moisture
and liquid and then the almond flour
just keeps it light and fluffy
ok so still be fluffy yeah that ride
isn't for you we'll go out and
overindulging you wake up the next day
and you feel so bad about yourself like
I'm eating no carbs today and I'm gonna
work out for seven hours what should you
do instead because I know that's
probably not the best approach right
exactly so my recommendation is always
to focus on anti-inflammatory foods so
when we overindulge it usually leads to
increased inflammation in the body which
is why you feel tired you feel puffy the
skill moves it's not necessarily because
you've gained that weight but you've
just become inflamed so really
incorporating leafy greens healthy fat a
lot of fibre II through home
just getting back to whole minimally
processed food and then my biggest
secret to healthy living is a smoothie
which I think in Florida we can get away
with that get the weather out today
don't think I have a recipe that we can
put up there yet
yeah so this is one of my favorite
smoothies it is full of antioxidants
through SIU so acai actually has no
naturally occurring sugars Oh a lot of
people don't know that I don't know yeah
blueberries almond milk spinach for
leafy greens so you're getting that
fiber through the fruit you can add
protein powder for protein or hemp see
you did a really great protein choice as
well so smoothies are my my biggest
quickly Carly before we go the fee bows
now us debut in Orlando tell us about
this happening at the Convention Center
this weekend yet it is the world's
largest Fitness convention coming to us
in Orlando and it's going to be
available to the general consumer we're
gonna have a lot of Fitness demoed and
workshops fun fun talk so it's gonna be
a really good time it's a good time of
year to have some of those healthy
reminders inspiration yes good ideas
thanks Carly thank you thank you