5 Habits Worth “Giving Up” This Year

For many people, New Years Resolutions are set so they “make up” for all the “bad stuff” over the holidays. Usually the resolutions involve unrealistic and irrational goals and whole categories of foods they are going to “give up”, but that backfires because you can’t do those things forever. Not only that, but some of the goals don’t even make sense because they set you up to sabotage your best intentions — like skipping breakfast — not a good idea. Earlier this week I was on Let’s Talk Live sharing some ideas for habits you really can “give up” to trim up the holiday excess and get healthier in the process. You can watch the entire video by clicking on the image or check out highlights below: Tip 1: Give up on“skipping breakfast”. 31 million Americans skip breakfast every day. Yet, we know that eating breakfast is associated with weight loss and healthy weight. The main reason for skipping people tend to skip breakfast seems to be lack of time. But I’ve got an answer for that with some 2-second breakfasts that you can take anywhere! belVita Breakfast Biscuits are delicious and crunchy biscuits specially baked to release energy continuously, giving you nutritious sustained energy all morning. Each individual package of 4 crunchy biscuits is portioned for breakfast and provides 230 calories, 18-20 grams of whole grains (one whole serving of whole grains!), 3 grams of fiber and 4 grams of protein. You can make a balanced brea...
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