3 tips for your SugarSmart Christmas
Sweets, cakes and Danish caramelised potatoes. With December comes hygge, cosy moments and mouth-watering temptations, and despite you living sugarsmart in you day-to-day life, you may decide to enjoy a few extra sweet treats at Christmas and accept that the tasty, traditional Danish Christmas dinner can’t – and shouldn’t – fit in with the principles of BIOLOGIC.
If you consciously choose sweet treats during the Christmas season, promise me one thing: be sure to enjoy it to the fullest.
Choose actively and consciously, enjoy it with all your heart, speak properly to yourself and drop the guilty conscience!
And remember – meals are often just an excuse for getting together and having fun at work, with loved ones or with the good friends. You can enjoy yourself in good company whether or not you eat sweets and desserts.
Below are three tips if you would like a Christmas season with room for few extra sweet options – while caring about your blood sugar, your health and your very capable body.
It is actually possible to do both – to enjoy a festive Christmas, with a few more sweet treats than normal, without it having to be a choke hold on your health.
1: Pulsesnacks do much more than you think
Whatever you eat at Christmas, it’s always beneficial to get your heart rate up between meals. When you raise your heart, you help your body remove both the last and the next meal’s excess sugar from the blood, and you get more energy while equipping your body for the next meal. A pulsesnack could be 10-20 jumping jacks, 5-10 burpies, a walk in the woods, a sprint up and down the stairs or even a special rendition of “Jingle Bells” around the entire house. Everything counts when you need to remove excess sugar from the blood with physical movement. And is there anything better than a good long walk for whetting your appetite, so the meal you’re looking forward to both feels and tastes better?
2: Desserts are better than continual snacking on sweet treats all day
A sweet dessert after a main meal is far better than snacking on sweets all day long. It’s about enabling the body to remove excess sugar from the blood before adding more. That the body does best when it alternates between “safe storage” and “using the safe stores”. And you walking past the sweet bowl every ten minutes to snack on its delicacies all day long gives your body very tough working conditions. If you still choose to eat something sweet between meals, then sandwich the sweet treat between 2 pulsesnacks.
3: Avoid going to bed with high blood sugar
Not to interfere with whom you go to bed with at Christmas – but I know how much of a bad idea it is to go to bed with high blood sugar. If your blood sugar is stable when you go to bed, you are likely to get a good night’s sleep, and a good night’s sleep increases your body’s ability to recover and store excess blood sugar the following day. But, at Christmas time, there’s often sweet temptations until late into the night, and if you choose to indulge, remember it’s a good idea to use pulsesnacks to lower your blood sugar levels again before you go to bed.
Have a happy and healthy Christmas!
Do you want to know more about how you can organize your diets and lifestyle in a SugarSmart way? Then I will recommend you reading my book “The truth about sugar ”