Christmas Cookies: Can You Eat Just One?

My entire house smells like Christmas cookies.

Downstairs, my husband is cutting out snowmen, angels and Christmas trees for our children to decorate.

I’m upstairs contemplating the buttery yumminess.

You see, it’s hard to eat just one. Perhaps you can relate.

So I’m hiding with my laptop, trying to ignore the delicious aroma of freshly baked cookies.

Here’s my strategy: I’m going to eat a cookie. Not five cookies. Just one.

I can do this.

Like so many people, I have to consciously decide what I eat and what I don’t. If I ate whatever I wanted, I’d easily gain 10 pounds this holiday season. Who needs that?

For the most part, I stick to my healthy eating habits around the holidays. I make sure my pantry and fridge are stocked with healthy choices that I like so I don’t give in to eating all the goodies that make their way into my house.

At the same time, I don’t believe in completely denying myself a little holiday treat.

So I’m going to have a cookie.

And it will be delicious.

Alice Warchol is a freelance writer and fitness instructor.

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