Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: Ready to lose 40 plus pounds without giving up happy hours, weekend brunches, or date nights. Then it's time to uncover the hidden link between binge eating and toxic relationships. And finally break free from both. Welcome to the Hungry for Love podcast with Jillian Scott. Y' all ready? Let's go.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Hey. Hey. Welcome back.
All right, so today I am going to share an upcoming workshop that I'm hosting called the Three Myths of Holiday Weight Loss. And we are going to start talking about the holidays and what's coming up for a couple of reasons. Number one, though, is I think there is this misconception and this view around the holidays being really hard to lose weight. It's really hard to manage emotions, hard to navigate emotional eating or binge eating.
And we often will have a lot of evidence as to how that's true. I want you to start thinking about, what if the holidays were the best time to lose weight? What if they were the best time to end emotional eating or to break free from binge eating? And really, I think this is one of the fun things that I get to do with clients, is just to start to plant seeds of what if what they were thinking is wrong? What if the complete opposite were true and doing it in a way where it works for them? And so one of the things that I often see is, like, the biggest issue, the biggest sticking point is this all or nothing. I'm either all in doing this really restrictive, extreme diet, or I'm all out saying, screw it, I'll start over next year.
And because the diets that we try to do and that we try to follow are so restrictive, they're so extreme. If I can't be in 100% doing it perfectly, and who wants to do that around the holidays? Because now we're going to be missing out. Now we're going to be all out.
And so I want to teach you and show you what it looks like to really break free from that fear of missing out, to break free from the all or nothing and this diet roller coaster from hell. I want to teach you how you can love and enjoy the holidays and the food and the parties and the traditions.
No guilt, no regret, no shame. And also without just overdoing it, right? We don't need to just throw up our hands and be apathetic and be like, oh, that happened.
We can be intentional. We can be mindful. We can be aware of what it is that we're actually choosing. And it's far easier than we realize. It's far easier than we give ourselves credit for to be able to do this throughout October, November and December.
And that's what I want to help you do. So I'm going to talk about the three myths to holiday weight loss and then how to break free from them, how to break this cycle and this toxic pattern of being all in and then all out. We can let go of the extremes and really play with that messy middle of the gray.
And so this is your opportunity to come and get a new perspective, to have these shifts, to have these changes. And even though it's only September, there is Halloween candy going out, there are Halloween costumes going out, there is fall decor going out. Y', all, the fall has fallen.
We are now in a season of pumpkin spice and maple bourbon and all the things. And it's super yummy and I want you to be able to enjoy it.
But let's do it intentionally, let's do it mindfully. Let's not go into fuck it mode and just start stuffing our faces with all the things because we think there's no other option.
And I want you to be able to enjoy the best time of year. I think that's so often, like the issue and the draw is we're like, I don't want to miss out. This is my favorite time, it's my favorite season.
So, yes, I'm gonna teach you how to enjoy the season, how to enjoy the holidays, how to enjoy all that life is bringing us and still be able to lose weight, end emotional eating. And even, especially now, as you're navigating different seasons of life too, maybe coping with grief or loneliness or family triggers. Because it's not just the dysfunctional patterns that we have with food, it's also seeing and recognizing and changing those dysfunctional patterns we have with people and allowing ourselves to really navigate this gracefully and step into January, 10, 15, 20 pounds down. And you can do this.
It can be busy, right? You can have a very full busy schedule and it is still the perfect time to create long term success.
Okay? So the holidays don't have to mean overeating, overindulging. It doesn't have to be a time of guilt. It doesn't have to be a time of procrastinating and waiting until January to get started.
I really want to teach you how to enjoy all of the food and the drinks and the activities and the fun and to really build the connection. And when we build connection within ourselves and we build it with the people around us, we don't need to try to find connection through food, right? The Food can just be there, the drinks can just be there. But it's not what's actually having us feel connected.
It's really taking a perspective shift and looking at how do we apply this and really what I teach on a full scale level. And we're gonna look at it specifically around the holidays and some of the nuances there.
Even if there's some grief that comes up, even if this year the holidays are gonna look a little bit different than last year or than the last couple of years. I want you to be able to run through the finish line here and start January feeling amazing, feeling really grounded, feeling really confident, feeling really calm and relaxed. To have the habits already established in the new year, that's amazing.
That's what this is all about. The other aspect, and one of the pieces that I think about often is we don't always think about the time and preparation needed in order to change some of these underlying beliefs and habits. And so I think of this as like our preseason. Right? So we've got preseason practice this month in September, October, we're gonna have some preseason games. Okay. And then November and December, that might be like the real season, right? So if you think about the NFL, football players don't just show up to their first game in September having not done anything all year. Yes, they take a break. There's rest and recovery, but there's also off season training. There's preseason training, There are preseason games and then the season actually starts. Right. And that's normal. Just like if you wanted to run a 10k or a half marathon or something like that, or even just like a few miles, you wouldn't just show up to a race. And having not trained, having not done anything. And that's often what we expect of ourselves. We expect that we can go into situations that have hung us up and tripped us up in the past and think that we can just show up differently all of a sudden, magically, without any practice. No, no, no. This is where we start to practice. This is your pre season right now. And I want to help you to navigate these next several months as we head into the end of the year and to find this balance between food and people and connection and emotions, right? And really being able to navigate and experience and allow any of the bigger or heavier emotions without letting it consume you and without the fear of letting it consume you.
But this is the work. It's the mental, emotional side of things. It's what do you think is stopping you? Or what do you think would be the problem? What Would you have to feel if everybody else around you was drinking and they were on their third drink and you stopped at two?
Let's say there's a buffet or an open bar and you only take a small amount. What are all the excuses and the justifications and the permission giving thoughts telling you to eat and to eat more or to drink and to drink more? November. I'll do something specifically around holiday drinking because I know this is a bigger time of year where often we are splurging and maybe indulging more and we still get caught up in this. We're all in with all the drinks and then January comes and maybe you stop drinking in January, maybe it's dry January and now you don't have anything, but you're right back to your pattern. February and March and we just go through these same cycles, these same loops over and over again. And I want to help you break free. It is much easier. It's much simpler than we think. But we do need to shift and tweak a couple of thoughts that are really getting in the way. There are three primary ones. Everybody has their own kind of flavor, but really, when it all comes down to it, there are really only three things. Three thoughts and beliefs that are standing in your way of making this a really easy, simple, streamlined process through the end of the year. Something that feels very doable, very enjoyable, and I want to help you break free. You ready? All right, so I will put a link to register in the description of this podcast. It will also be in the next podcast, in the next couple ones coming up until the event. So it is happening Saturday, September 27th at 12pm Central. I will send out a replay afterwards because I know not every day and time is going to work for everyone.
I try to mix things up when I'm doing live events and change it to where some people can make it, but I also know some people won't, so I get it. But if you know that the holidays can be a hard time for you and you want to make this year different than it's been in the past, then make sure you sign up so that you can watch the replay because this is where it's at and this is where it starts. It's creating the life and the body you crave even during the holidays, while still loving and enjoying the holidays.
That's what I want to help you do.
All right, I hope you all have a fabulous rest of your week. I will be back with a bonus episode later on this week with some other thoughts and things that I've been thinking about. So you're not going to want to miss Friday's episode.
But until then, I hope you have a fabulous week. Here's to creating the life and body you crave.
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