Super Bowl = SUPER Pig Out Day?

Super Bowl Sunday is only second to Thanksgiving for the amount of calories consumed.  The average American consumes over 3,000 calories during Super Bowl Sunday, with over 1,200 calories coming from snacks and drinks.  This is scary, as 3,000 calories is a couple day's worth of intake!  Here are some tips to avoid a caloric overload and stay on track with a healthy lifestyle!  Being health conscious doesn't mean cutting out the fun!

• Substitute carrots, celery, cucumbers, etc. for chips
• Avoid high caloric drinks - opt for light beer, or choose diet soda/soda water/tonic water for your cocktails
• Make snacks at home!  This lets you decide on your ingredients.
• Opt for fruit and veggie trays (without sugary or creamy dips).
• Choose hummus, home made salsa (store bought salsa contains tons of sodium), and vinaigrettes over creamy and sugary dips.
• Avoid pizza, nachos, and wings.  One buffalo wing hosts about 72 calories - in order to burn that off, you would need to run around the football field 12 times to burn one of those bad boys off!
• MINDFUL EATING!  Pay attention to what you are consuming!  Eat slowly and savor each bite.  It takes 7 minutes for the signals to reach our brain telling us we are "full".  The slower you eat, the less you will consume!

Looking for a healthy recipe?  Try some homemade COWBOY SALSA!!!  It's so good that you don't even need chips - just eat it with a spoon, or with other veggies!

Salsa:

15oz can black beans, rinse and drain (I go with low sodium option)

15oz can of shoe peg corn (or regular corn), rinse and drain

2/3 cup chopped green onions

2/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro

3-4 chopped roma tomatoes

1 large avacado, cubed

Dressing:

2 Tbsp red wine vinegar

1 tsp. Tabasco sauce

1 and 1/2 tsp oil

1/8 tsp pepper

Mix everything in the salsa recipe together, but wait to add the avocado's and dressing until right before serving!

Enjoy!