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New Year, New You?
The food, the drink, those cosy
nights in with your feet up in front
of the fire, blissful! However, will
you be paying the price this
January with an expanding
waistline and increased weight?
Make this Christmas different. Try
these top-tips for a healthy
Christmas:
• Party! Nominate yourself as the driver and avoid the
alcohol and therefore control your intake of nibbles.
Make sure that you don’t replace the alcohol for sugary
drinks like Cola or Lemonade. Try a sparkling water with
a slice of lemon, or a lime cordial.
• Party! Avoid the ‘beige’ banquet of sausage rolls, mini
pork pies and samosas. Try the healthy alternatives of
chopped raw vegetables and dips like humous.
• Party! Try dancing the night away! What better excuse to
get active and avoid the excess eating and drinking.
• Sweets - Don’t purchase the ‘buy one, get one free’ tins
of sweets. You will be nibbling all through Christmas and
New Year, adding excess calories for weeks.
• Walk – it’s the best time to pull on those wellies and walk
around our beautiful countryside. Why not involve all the
family, bring some friends too. Make a day of it!
• Join the gym BEFORE Christmas and consider
employing a personal trainer to get you really motivated
and focussed on keeping active and eating a
healthy diet.
• Plan your new year activity now. Try this: sit in the bath
with a note book and pen and plan a healthy 2011. Try a
new sport, join a gym, start jogging, walk to work,
anything in fact to get you more active than last year.
The relaxation in the bath will allow you to focus and
give quality time to write your new plan!
• Do something towards your health and fitness everyday.
For example, go to the gym, walk up the stairs, eat a
really healthy meal, drink water, do 10 press ups. Doing
ANYTHING is better than nothing and accumulated over
a year it will make a difference.
• Don’t over do it. A well planned exercise plan is essential
to minimise risk of injury and to improve the chance of
you sticking to the plan.
• New year resolutions should happen every day, not just
on January 1st. In other words, start your plan straight
away, don’t put it off. With consistent and persistent
healthy thoughts and activity your 2011 will be your
healthiest yet!
Make 2011 your year of health, you will amazed by the
difference it will make to your energy levels and overall
fitness.
Reader Offer
To make your 2011 your best ever, Mint Condition
are offering all Holybourne residents a free 20 minute
consultation with a personal fitness advisor.
To take advantage of this call: 01420 590590
or email: ginny@mintcondition.net
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
“Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”
Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you’ll go down in history!
The Holybourne Village Magazine - Winter Issue 2010
Page 29