This time of the year can be challenging, lonely and super hard when you’re in the midst of a struggle with food and your body.
The food, the family, the parties, the messages of “joy” and “happiness” everywhere can be a huge mirror reflecting your loneliness, your heartache, your perceived lack of support.
In order to make the next couple of weeks a little bit more bearable, here are 6 posts that’ll help you to make it through this time without going nuts.
What’s Your Intention For The Holidays?
… “Buy this.”
“Try this.”
“Do this.”
“Decorate this way.”
“Gift that way.”
“Cook this meal.”
“Bake these cookies.”
Are you as sick and tired of these holiday stressors as I am?
Read the post here.
A Tale of Restricting Only to Binge on the Holidays
… if you are in the middle of the diet before the Holidays, STOP.
Instead of making anything better, you’re making things worse. You are actually programming yourself to binge. You are creating the exact circumstances your body and mind need to go crazy during the holidays.
Read the post here.
Body Image, Food and the Holidays
… As fun as the holiday food is, it doesn’t need to rule your heart and mind.
There is a way of celebrating the holidays without going crazy and in this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Deb Oswald, Leila Hays and I share our favorite tips and tricks to stay calm and sane during this time of the year.
Listen to this episode of the Escape Diet Prison podcast here.
Ask The Right Questions
… What would be so bad about never reaching my goal weight? What would be the most horrible outcome of you never losing that 20 pounds or achieving the weight you’ve had when you were 13 years old?
Read the post here.
Binging on Christmas? No more!
… Rule #2: Do NOT feely guilty
Eaten too much? Forgive yourself and move on.
There doesn’t have to be any guilt as there’s nothing to be guilty about. Eating is not a moral act, always remember that. So, even if you’ve eaten way more than your body wanted, you didn’t commit a crime. All you did was put food in your mouth and swallow it.
So what?
Read the post here.
A Gift of Self-Love
… Christmas comes with a lot of expectations: the expectations of gifts that let you know how much you’re loved by your partner, parents, siblings, uncles and aunts; the expectation that everything will be peaceful and all your children (and your hubby) will behave perfectly; the expectation that the traditional feast is an explosion of delight for the body and the expectation that your entire family will come closer just a little bit.
Read the post here.
