Kimberly Snyder's Health and Beauty Blog

Hey Guys -

Someone just sent me this feature and I am THRILLED!! Wanted to share it with you right away. I knew they were posting the recipe but didn’t know it would be a FULL page! Yay!! Okay and as promised- here are more elaborated tips to get you through your Thanksgiving!!

Tips to Get Through Your Thanksgiving Meal as Healthily as Possible

Thanksgiving is a time for gathering together with friends, family and loved ones. While this holiday is a great time to feel love and connection with others, over time it has also become a holiday associated with eating copious amounts of food and stuffing ourselves so much that we can barely move afterwards. It doesn’t have to be part of our tradition to feel that way!!

There may be very special dishes at Thanksgiving that are part of your family’s tradition that we won’t want to miss out on. Therefore, these tips are not about making us feel deprived on Thanksgiving, they are rather about how to enjoy one of our favorite meals, while not feeling sick or that we weigh 400 pounds afterwards (Can I get a “NO THANKS?!!”).

You will actually enjoy your meal and holiday even more!

Thanksgiving Tips

1.    The day before Thanksgiving, try to eat really light. That way, by the day of the big meal,your body will not be already backed up digesting heavy foods from the day before.

2.    Before the big meal, which is usually in the afternoon, have only fruit on an empty stomach, or nothing, and drink plenty of water, so you are hydrated.

3.    Drink as little water, alcohol, or other liquids during the actual meal itself. Liquids dilute the Hydrochloric acid in our stomach, and make it harder for us to digest our foods. Food that is not digested well can contribute to toxicity in the body.

4.    Have the first actual thing you start eating be a raw green salad or any kind of raw vegetables. It is highly beneficial to coat the stomach with something alkaline first, and as this will help push through the other concentrated, acidic foods that you will eat afterwards for better digestion. It will also ensure that you are getting fiber in the body first, so you will be less apt to pig out on other foods.

5.    Eat slowly and enjoy your food! Remember to make the meal be about who you are eating with, and the love around the table. That is the main point of the gathering, not just eating as much as possible! So enjoy all your foods, but just be conscious that you do NOT need to overstuff yourself. Have a goal of trying a little big of everything, but leave the table only 80% full.

6.    Chew really well. You’ve heard it before, but for this meal it is especially important! The digestion of carbs begins in the mouth with the secretion of the enzyme ptyalin, and we want to help along digestion in any way we can.

7.    Later on that night, if you get hungry again, raw vegetables, salad and some water would be your best bet over even fruit. The combination of heavy foods in your stomach could take over 12 hours to digest in your stomach. If we eat fruit on top of that, fruit could end up backing us up even more past that, since fruit leaves the stomach in 20 minutes. If it can’t leave the stomach, it will be stuck there, and will start to ferment and acidify. Not great for our digestion, energy, and beauty!

Hope you will incorporate this tips and have a wonderful holiday. I will write more soon..but here’s an early Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Love and Blessings,  Kimberly

PS: To my international friends that are reading this and don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, of course these tips would be useful for any big traditional holiday meal you might enjoy