Do you feel a little nauseous from all the Reese's and Skittles you ate yesterday? Are you looking at all the fake spider webs covering your bushes and wondering who's going to clean that up? Halloween is the kick-off to the holiday season. Are you ready?
Read on for tips to survive the holiday crazy. Plus, 2 chances to win a $50 gift card to The Container Store, to help you prep for what's to come.
After eating candy for dinner last night, your body needs some time to adjust. Water can help. Go get yourself a big glass of water, and drink it all while you keep reading. This will help to cleanse your body from all that sugar. Then realize that with Thanksgiving just three weeks away, you can spend these 21 days being extra healthy. By making that short, concrete goal, it won't be overwhelming. It's something you can get through, with a reward at the end.
Focus on eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, and limiting the junk food. Add in some some mini-exercises to your routine, like walking twice around your block before coming inside at night, or climbing up and down the stairs 4 times each morning. Then when the holidays really kick into high gear, you'll already be feeling better. Maybe you'll even keep up some of that routine.
The sooner you get rid of any traces of Halloween, the sooner you'll be ready for what's next. Put it on your calendar to get that done by Sunday. After all, jack o' lanterns left around too long get really gross.
Next week, you'll be able to think about the next shift of holiday decor. But before you take out the lights and reindeer, take a look at what you have. If you're like most people, it could use some organization. So this year, as soon as the decorations are pulled out, buy some storage bins and containers. Then when you get around to putting everything away in January, it will be so much easier to make them neat and organized. You will be extra thankful next November.
When life gets overwhelming, it's best to write things down. Keeping a list can help you de-stress and get things organized. Make sure to get your family involved by encouraging them to add things, and cross off items too. Put a person's name next to each item, so everyone knows what they need to do (and can see how much is on your plate!) If your list is on paper, put it in the kitchen, where everyone can see it. Or try an app that shares the list between your family members, such as Microsoft To-Do, Google Keep, and Remember The Milk.
If you create your list now, you can spend the next three weeks crossing things off. While you have time, how about baking some cookies and freezing them? Or buying the wrapping paper you'll soon need. You can even add to each day "20 minutes of exercise" and "Drink an extra glass of water." Done and done.
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I'm finishing my shopping and decorating for Christmas!!
I love the tips on getting healthy. I have always been a big junk food eater as well as eating rice, pasta, potatoes and bread. I have eliminated a lot of this from my diet and today I am celebrating I hit my 50 lb weight loss goal! The journey started in February of this year. I feel so much better!
I am getting ready for the holidays by preparing my shopping list and gift list so I can stay on budget
Starting to decorate a little each day and setting a budget for gifts for the family! sometimes it gets out of hand!
To get ready for the holidays I make a good effort to clean and organize my home, since I know things are about to get a bit crazy with a bunch of people everywhere.
Well this week we did a mass cleaning, donating items, and dusting, the whole family helped! We are going to decorate with lights, stockings, and candles.
We are keeping things low-key this year. We plan to volunteer and hand out meals for Thanksgiving. I think we're going to travel to see family the weekend after Christmas instead of the day of.
Be realistic. Started months ago back in summer as I saw things in store I'd need on sale got it then.
I am getting ready by organizing my holiday decorations box. No better time than now to get it ready!
By making a good list I guess, not much so far!
We're going to our future in-laws for Thanksgiving, which means much less for me to do! So I'll be using that long weekend to go through my holiday decor, gifts, etc. so I can be organized and know what I need to still buy or make.
I'm prepping for the holiday season by cleaning and keeping track of what everyone wants through my notes
I'm starting nursing school right after the new year so I'm trying to get all my holiday gifts asap so I don't stress at the last minute!
Making a list and looking for deals!
So far we have a turkey and in the process of planning the rest of the meal which usually consists of mashed potatoes with gravy, candied yams, rolls, green beans, deviled eggs.