Hi,

For some, tomorrow marks the beginning of the holiday season with Halloween, then follows Thanksgiving, Christmas and finally New Year's. These can all be occasions to eat more than we had planned and to eat something other than we had planned. When the kids come home with bags of candy from tomorrow's trick or treating, or when you get invited to Thanksgiving dinner at your Aunt Mildred's farm where she sets out the delicious, yet not that healthy, meats, sauces, biscuits and let's not forget her special baked dressing casserole complete with turkey, cheese, sour cream, butter, white bread and whatever that stuff is she puts on top.

And finally comes the Christmas Eve and Christmas dinners and your diet spirals into the abyss. But not to worry, there's always those New Year's resolutions you can make to get back on track, right? But what if you could get through the holidays without succumbing to all that tempting food? Wouldn't that be great? Even for the raw foodist, it can sometimes be a difficult task being around all the foods we used to eat without taking a sample here and there.

What can you do to avoid that temptation?

First, make a decision right now to eat healthy through the holiday season. Sure this is easier said than done, but if the decision has been made before the temptation comes, you already have a plan to combat it. Listen to our Healthy diet Podcast episode about developing a personal health philosophy that will help you through those tempting times.

Secondly, what you can do is bring your own raw or mostly raw healthy recipes to your holiday get togethers. If you are going to a dinner, volunteer to bring the salad. That's what Jean and I do. We load it with healthy veggies and many times this will be our meal. If you are going to a party, bring a healthy trail mix or something like our delicious and healthy dark chocolate truffles.

And if you have a favorite food such as mashed potatoes, then substitute our healthy garlic mashed potato recipe for those mashed potatoes that are usually loaded with butter, milk, sour cream and tons of salt.

Another thing you can do to help make it through the eating season is to imagine the victory you will have when you can exclaim on January 2nd that you made it through the holidays without gaining weight or gorging yourself on unhealthy food! And when the Thanksgiving and Christmas season rolls around next year it will be all the more easier for you to eat healthy. By then all your relatives won't be offering you those holiday "treats" and they will be saying, "There's so-and-so, they don't like good food." But you will know the truth!

An alert reader pointed out to us that a link in last month's newsletter didn't go to the right place. Joan from Chicago submitted her Peach Popsicle recipe and I linked to another page by mistake. The link is correct this time, so please go check it out!

Healthy Diet Podcast Alert! Anyone who subscribes to our Healthy Diet Podcast through Yahoo Podcasts, please know that Yahoo will be shutting down their service tomorrow October 31st. If you subscribe through Yahoo, you can go to our podcast site and resubscribe through Podcast Pickle, iTunes or Podnova. Scroll down a short ways and you will see the subscription buttons on the lower left.

As always we want to thank you for subscribing to Healthy Diet News. Until next time...

Eat Healthy, Be Healthy,

Alan LeStourgeon
www.ezHealthyDiet.com

PS - We now offer a free sample download of The Mostly Raw Vegan Meal Planner on our web site. The free sample download contains the Table Of Contents, the Introduction and the Table Of Recipes so you can see exactly what you are getting in the meal planner.

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