Walk Off Your Easter Dinner

Many of us eat more than we’d like at holiday dinners. Sometimes you just need to let go and enjoy. Last night at our Passover seder, for example, I took seconds and thirds on the baby artichokes. (They were, delicious, Mike!).

After the meal I felt way too full. So Mike and I took Jane Kokernak’s advice and went for a post dinner walk to gently work off some of the food. As Jane pointed out, unlike the winter holidays (Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Valentine’s Day), Passover and Easter usually fall in the spring, so the weather allows you to take a walk with your family after the meal.

We wish you a great Easter dinner. And don’t forget that you don’t have to sit around the TV and nap off the food. Take a walk!

Jessica Apple

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Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)