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Valentine's Day 2007
Flavia Kreis, C.N.C.
Valentine's Day
Just when you were thinking the holidays are over, now I can go back to my healthy eating habits, Valentine's Day is here. The day of love, friendship, warmth and closeness, everything is red like our pounding heart.
Millions of heart-shaped chocolate candies are busting off of the many shelves of every store -- calling you, buy and eat me! Big Hearts full of calories, sugar, or even worse, synthetic sugars and fat.
Don't get me wrong, I like Valentine's Day, but I don't like the extra baggage on my derriere (fancy French word for the buttocks), and I think most women agree with me about this one. Some of my girlfriends are already saying, I am going to give out my chocolate candies at work, my boyfriend will not know. Some others are coming out with clever ideas like Honey, this year don't buy chocolate candies, I developed a chocolate allergy.
Well I have some solutions, culinary or not, for all of those that want to avoid either the calorie booster items or having to burn them off (the calories). As a substitution for regular chocolate candies make chocolate sugar free (use stevia) low fat heart shaped cookies and wrap them up with nice red paper, or go to a health food store and get something similar to that but with much less sugar and calories. They have lots of selections.
Another idea is find a nice spa in the wine country and get a massage for you and your honey; it is relaxing and intimate. Before or after the massage you both can take a nice swim inside a heated swimming pool; moderate swimming for an hour burns approximately 477 calories.
One of the nicest things to do during Valentine's is to go to a black tie ballroom dance; you can dance your calories off that evening. If you are not up to ballroom, go to a free style-dancing club; both categories of dance when done fast can burn between 306-374 calories per hour. Take the weekend off and go skiing somewhere; one-hour skiing (cross-country) burns 700 calories, or hiking around 409 calories.
And do you and your family enjoy ice skating? An hour burns about 477 calories. Basically, in order to avoid adding pounds you need to monitor your calorie intake versus those you burn; more physical motion helps to burn more calories.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator, park further away and walk, take daily brisk walks. If you don't feel motivated to get out of the house and need a little extra motivation, adopt a dog from the humane society youll do something you can be proud of by saving the life of an animal and he/she will be your friend and companion for the rest of his/her life.
Pets help people get outdoors more and cheer us up and reduce feelings of solitude. Dogs need to be walked to keep healthy and fit and you will benefit as well. A moderate to brisk walk for 20 minutes twice a day is around 1 to 2 miles per day for you and your pet.
There are many things that can be done to keep yourself and your loves ones healthy and fit, and that it is the best Valentine's gift there is.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Flavia Kreis
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Integrative Nutrition and Wellness Center
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