Holiday Food Anxiety: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

It’s Holiday Season! For many, this time of year brings joy. However, for others, this time of year comes with a lot of anxiety. Particularly anxiety around food -- do I eat the goodies, do I have the extra wine, do I stay on my diet and “miss out,” do I go buck wild and just start over in January? So many questions and so much uncertainty around food, the choices you may or may not make, and the consequential feelings that will bubble up based off those choices.  

I LOVE the holidays. I love being with family, gift-giving, decorations, lights, carols, and all the love that this time of year represents. However, for many years, with that holiday excitement also came dread. Dread because I knew this time of year also came with indulgence. The concept of indulging, and actually enjoying it, without guilt, was incomprehensible. Every year 

It was always the same story -- I would go into the holiday season saying that I would only indulge on Thanksgiving. I would restrict the days leading up to it (you know, to be “good” so I could then be “bad”...whatever that means!), then Thanksgiving would hit and I would spiral. That little voice would creep in, slowly turning up the volume, “it’s just one month,” “you’ll get back on the wagon in January,” “you’ve already messed up, there’s no point in dieting until all these celebrations are over.” But, you know what? It was that dieting that got me into this extreme eating behavior in the first place! Little did I know that “getting back on track” in January meant some new extreme diet, starting another year off of setting myself up to fail, then hating myself...the diet cycle that keeps on giving! 

Give back this holiday season..TO YOU! Don’t wait until January to pay yet again for another diet program that proclaims to make you a “new you”. TruWelle is health coaching that works WITH you, designed around your wants, needs and lifestyle. It is not a cookie-cutter weight loss program that made the decision for you about what can be on your plate on Thanksgiving. Make it through the holidays guilt-free, but enjoyment-full, and end your 2021 giving yourself the best gift of all...your health! 

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