Getting ready for the holidays

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ...

*This is the handout for points club this week. How cute is this workout? Each round is one point!

 The holidays aren't just about junk food. I think the true meaning of Christmas to me is about giving and showing love to others. I would never celebrate Christmas if it were just about gorging your body with junk and being lazy. My focus this Christmas is on giving, love, spreading love and hopefully inspiring others with the gift of fitness.

I have been living a healthy lifestyle for a long time. Every year at this time a lot of people fall completely off their health plan. Try not to be one of them. I am going to have a few treats; moms cooked dinner-Newfie style, Aunt Suz makes the best cookies-I am totally having one. Or two. My kids and I will plan active games, I will get my workouts in. I am not missing out. I will feel good about myself.

You don't have to wait to make a New Years resolution. Just eat healthy most of the time. Striving for perfection throws SO MANY peeps under the bus! Don't take a two week holiday from the gym this Christmas. Give yourself Christmas off and then include family in healthy activities. Go sledding. Go skating. The notion that I am setting a bad example for my children because we aren't going overboard is absurd.

Every Christmas eve we get Christmas pj's and a Christmas movie from Santa, we always do kid friendly New Years parties, Rod and I will load up the kids in the car and hit Tim Horton's (coffee for us, hot chocolate for the kids) and go look at Christmas lights. Oh, and EVERY Christmas eve since I was a small child I open my gift from my Grandma and its always homemade. Now my hubby and kids look forward to their homemade goodies too!

I am curious what are your holiday traditions??! :)