Savouring the Season: Breaking Free from Christmas Binging.

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Have you ever thought: “If I eat one more mouthful I will burst?”

You might find yourself eating breakfast at one family members house, lunch at another and finish with a leftover evening meal somewhere else at Christmas.

You are left bursting at the seams, to the point of spilling over.

It reminds me of when I was in Holland in 1981.

The Christmas and New Year celebrations run well into January.

Custom at Grada’s family was to cook olieballen, alias “oil balls”, a deep-fried donut mix.

Let me tell you they are delicious, and traditionally only cooked once a year, on new years eve.

One of Grada’s brothers had eaten so many olieballen that he became violently ill and missed out on the 12 a.m. fireworks completely, stuck in front of the only toilet in the house, vomiting his heart out.

We have probably all been guilty of gorging ourselves with too much yummy cooking, ignoring all our body’s warning signs!

So how can we minimize the risk of falling into this yearly trap of overshooting the mark and paying for it afterwards?

Growing up I ate rolled oats porridge followed by toast with honey most mornings, not realising my body was converting all those tasty high-starch carbohydrates to sugars.

I used to end up with a massive surge of energy, followed by a crash in energy, so I shovelled in more carbs at morning tea time to get my energy back, which was then followed by another inevitable drop just before lunch time.

Perhaps you know what I am talking about?

You yoyo your way through the day, often feeling full and empty at the same time, and ending up in a state of total YUCK!

You have probably heard me say that the cells of our body make energy from either sugars on the one hand or fats on the other.

Newborn babies who are fully breastfed (the perfect food for little humans) are making at least 70% of their energy from fats.

That’s how they thrive.
However, when they are weaned and started on solids, they have to throw their entire metabolism around.

Everything is topsy turvy.

Instead of living on healthy fats, they now enter the next chapter of their lives, which is often filled with many health challenges, caused by our modern western diet. (Advocated by well-meaning, but ignorant clinic nurses, dieticians, and paediatricians.)

From this time on, they are generally fed 80 to 90% carbs and sugars (think mashed potatoes, porridge, breads, pasta, fruits, vegetables, fruit juices, mashed banana, grapes and sugar laden processed food)

This is a recipe for disaster, but for some reason we never question it.

What if everything we have been taught about food is a lie?

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