174. Holiday Cookies, Parties, & Pies oh my!

Episode 174 November 07, 2025 00:31:26
174. Holiday Cookies, Parties, & Pies oh my!
Hungry for Love: Lose Weight After Toxic Relationships
174. Holiday Cookies, Parties, & Pies oh my!

Nov 07 2025 | 00:31:26

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Show Notes

The holidays are often full of sweets - cookies, cakes, pies, candy. 

You can’t go far without something homebaked and made with love being shoved in your face (and sometimes in your mouth). 

But you don’t have to spend this holiday season missing out or stressing out about what you can or can’t eat. 

Today’s episode will highlight common pitfalls when it comes to food and maintaining healthy habits during the holidays, and what to do instead. 

Keep listening to learn more. 

 

And when you’re ready to break free from toxic cycles of dieting, emotional eating, and people-pleasing, it’s time to come work with me. 

Schedule your free consultation to learn more: www.bodyyoucrave.com/schedule.

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[00:00:02] 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] Hey. Hey. Welcome back. [00:00:26] All right, so today's episode, we are diving into all things holidays, cookies, parties, and pies. Oh, my. And really, one of the angles we're going to look at this from is that lens of people pleasing and eating in a way, or in an attempt to either show gratitude, to appease other people, to make others happy, an attempt to take responsibility and control somebody else's emotions or behavior and to really bring it back to our own. This is going to play into a larger concept around the holidays and how do we handle ourselves, our goals for weight loss, and kind of balance this desire of I want to lose weight with. I also want to be able to enjoy the holidays and not make it this dichotomy. One of the key things that I often think about is suffering does not equal weight loss. And so often I think we've attached these two concepts together. We think, the more I suffer, the more weight I'll lose, or maybe the faster I'll lose the weight. But it's not just about losing weight fast. It's about being able to lose weight and keep it off long term. Because you change who you are, how you show up, how you're thinking, and you stop using food as a coping mechanism. You stop turning to it to meet your emotional needs or to regulate your nervous system, and you start learning how to do that for yourself. And when you do that, food then just becomes neutral. And when food is no longer good, bad, off limits. I can't eat this when it's no longer moralized. You're not moralizing yourself now based on what you eat. It's a lot easier to moderate because it's very hard to moderate when you eat the, quote, bad food. If now you're eating this bad food and now you are bad, it's really hard just to eat a little bit. Because our logical brain is like, screw it, I've already blown it. I'm not perfect. And I have to be perfect in order to create results in order to lose weight. [00:02:18] So since I can't be perfect, who cares? Why bother? I'll just eat my face off and we throw away the rest of the year when really we don't have to. There's nothing that we have to try to Save. And even a couple of parties, a couple of dinners, a couple of events is not enough to throw you off your game unless you let it. And this is where we take radical responsibility. [00:02:42] So let's dive in. I also thought about naming this how to not eat your face off over the holidays. I thought that might be a little extreme. [00:02:50] Who knows? Maybe by the time I post this, that's what it'll end up being named. I thought that was just fun. So the holidays are full of sweets, right? We've got cookies, cakes, pies, candy, right? We have fun food. We have fun events. We have things that we don't want to miss out on. And so it's normal that there is going to be this emotional and mental pull towards not wanting to be intentional about losing weight or not even wanting to set a goal a lot of times, because we also don't want to feel disappointed, right? It's like we're afraid of these negative emotions. We're afraid of disappointment. And so we decide not to set goals and just to kick the can down the road. I'll start over in January. I'll start over in the new year. But as we head into the holidays, now that we're into November, and full disclosure, all of my Christmas stuff did go up last weekend, and I love it so much. It's beautiful, and I'm going to enjoy the heck out of it through the end of the year. And you know what? I'm going to be ready to put it up in January. And that's what this is all about is truly enjoying the season. Not making it about one day or one night, one thing, but really truly enjoying the season. That was such a big shift for me to recognize, and I only had this epiphany, like a couple months ago. I was like, oh, my gosh, I love Christmas. Not because of Christmas Day, because Christmas Day comes and goes so quickly. [00:04:08] I love the season, so I'm gonna allow myself to enjoy the season. I don't care who's made up rules about when you're allowed to put up Christmas stuff. I'm doing it when I want to. Because you know what? I'm an adult, and I can make my own rules now. Just like you are an adult, and you get to make your own rules. You get to make your own food rules. And this has been something that has come up with clients recently, and this week in particular has been you. You get to make your own food rules now. You get to decide what works for you. Most of my food rules really had Nothing to do about what I could or couldn't eat. It changed and it became, I'm gonna eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm satisfied. I'm no longer gonna eat standing in the pantry. I'm no longer gonna eat straight out of the ice cream carton. I'm gonna put it in a bowl, I'm gonna put something on a plate, I'm gonna portion it out. And even if I go back for more, it creates the space and the time to really engage my thinking brain, to get out of the default pattern of just eating more. When if I'm sitting there with a half gallon of ice cream, all I need to do is stick my spoon back in, right? It's like there's not a lot of friction with taking another bite. When I make it a little bit more difficult, even just a little bit more, I create more space for do I really want it? And it really kicks into, okay, I've already had one dessert, I've already had this one allotted portion. [00:05:28] And full disclosure, I typically buy ice cream bars now. Caleb and I both like the salted caramel chocolate covered frozen yogurt bars. They are so delicious. But that becomes a really easy way of also enabling portion control. Because you can't go far this holiday season or any holiday season without something home baked, homemade, made with love, being shoved in your face and then sometimes in your mouth. But you don't have to spend this season feeling like you're missing out, stressing about what you can and can't eat, worried about all the things. But we really want to just be mindful. We want to be intentional with it. And I want to teach you how to feel in control around all food at all times. Does not matter where you are, who you're with, what's going on around you, doesn't matter what you're celebrating or how much food is there or how long it's available for. You are making decisions intentionally for yourself based on your likes and desires. [00:06:27] So let's dive in and talk about four key challenges that really come up around the holidays. And then giving you a couple of tips and some practical implementation of here's what we do instead. Number one, one of the core issues around the holidays is the fear of missing out. This is the number one reason why we emotionally eat over the holidays. And this is what the workshop was about back in September. And the replay is here on the podcast. If you scroll back a few episodes, you'll find it. But that workshop was very much tied around this I don't want to miss out because it's not just I don't want to miss out on the food, it's I don't want to miss out on having a good time. I don't want to miss out on feeling the joy and pleasure and nostalgia and connection. [00:07:11] I think so often we look at food or alcohol as connecting us when really it's other people. It's our thoughts and the emotions and the conversation. It's how we are thinking about it. It has fuck all to do with the food. [00:07:26] So let's take the emphasis off of the food and actually put it on where it belongs. I wrote out some different models for what comes up. And so the thought is I don't want to miss out. And the feeling is we want to feel included and connected and we want to avoid feeling excluded or left out. I'd say that's a big one, is I don't want to feel left out. I don't want to feel like an outsider, maybe even judged. Like I don't want to be judged. I want to be careful that I don't give people a reason to look at me funny. Right? If we're like really afraid of what other people are thinking about us or afraid of what they're thinking about what we're eating. And usually they are not nearly as worried, thinking about, consumed with what we are actually eating. [00:08:09] But often we have a couple of bad experiences with people where that's what we learned. We have evidence as to why that's true. It becomes really easy of like, I don't want to miss out turns into the action line becomes I eat and sometimes I overeat, I eat extra. [00:08:24] This is good for us to recognize because the more that we can see the pattern, the more that we bring awareness to it, the more that we can start to change it. But we have to be open and honest. We have to eat eyes wide open and we have to do it with a lot of love and a lot of compassion. [00:08:41] That's the only way we can learn from this. [00:08:44] Number two, eating to please others or not hurt their feelings. [00:08:49] And this is really misplaced gratitude and responsibility. So playing back on that people pleasing and the over functioning, that means that we feel responsible for other people's emotions. We feel responsible to make them happy, responsible to avoid them feeling pain or a negative emotion. [00:09:07] And now responsibility for fixing something if it goes awry, if we didn't do the right thing, now we have to fix it. We can have this around food. So it's like oh, they made this just for me. I don't want to hurt their feelings. And often that's what it is. I don't want them to feel bad. I want to show my gratitude. I want to show how much I care. I want them to feel like all of the time and energy and effort that they spent cooking was worth it, that I appreciate it, that I value it. [00:09:35] We have a lot of good intentions, we have a lot of thoughts, but ultimately, it's like we feel obligated, we feel responsible, and we want to avoid feeling guilty. We want to avoid a confrontation. [00:09:47] So it's really easy to eat. Just turn to food, eat whatever they're giving you. This goes hand in hand with the next one, which is eating to appease food pushers. [00:09:57] And a food pusher is very much like it sounds, right? It's somebody who really encourages and pushes you to eat. [00:10:03] Now, I think depending on your culture, your ethnicity, you know, some different factors, there are people who see their value as a host or a hostess as they want to make sure that you are happy, that you have enough food, you have enough drink, you know, so they don't want you to go without. They want to make sure that you have a great time. And so they are going to offer. [00:10:22] And just because they're offering doesn't mean that they're pushing. And this is really an important distinction because I think sometimes we feel like, why won't they leave me alone? Don't they know that I'm on a diet? Don't they know I'm trying to eat healthy? Why do they keep doing this? And we can get all bent out of shape, feel frustrated and obligated, sometimes even exasperated. And so we just give in and we eat because we don't feel safe and secure saying no. We don't feel secure in ourselves. [00:10:49] And whether they make us or we have just simply taken on that responsibility, sometimes there I think can be some guilt or these looks of, oh, but, but I made this for you. I spent so much time. Sometimes there's genuine confusion, and sometimes I feel like there is manipulation. And we don't always know. Sometimes we jump to these negative conclusions, but sometimes it can be that they're pushing it. They want you to eat. They want you to go back for a second. It's like, what, you're not eating more? What, Was it bad? What? What's wrong with you? Go get more food. And really, it's being able to say no, to say, I love you so much, Auntie or Mom or whoever it is. I love you so much. This was so delicious. And I'm also very satisfied. I'm very happy and content with the food. Thank you so much. Can I take this to go? That is one of my favorite ones. Oh, this was such a good meal. And then you can ask, hey, can I have a to go plate? Hey, I brought a to go container. Do you mind if I take some extras of this stuff that I really enjoyed? Or can I take a little bit of everything? Or can I take my dessert to go? Once you get home and you have the food, you can decide when to eat it, how much, all of that. You can space it out over a couple of days or whatever feels right for you. You can also choose, especially if it's something that you don't like and you took it as a way of not hurting their feelings, you don't have to actually eat it. I think this works with office parties too. Especially if it's somebody's birthday or I think sometimes we can feel this way when it's our birthday and people bring dessert, make a dessert, and maybe it's not your favorite or it's not something you even like and you're like, oh, my gosh, that was so nice of them. It was so thoughtful. And yet I also don't want to eat this. It's really being aware of. I can be very appreciative and very grateful and I can express that. And I don't have to eat the food. I can take a small piece, I can take a couple bites. You get to decide what your parameters are, what your boundaries are, but you don't have to just give in and eat in order to make somebody else happy. Now, I guarantee there are probably some of you thinking, oh, no, no, no, Jillian. But you don't know my auntie. You don't know my dad, my mom, my person. You don't know what it's like with my in laws. And to be fair, I don't know what you deal with. But what I do know is that if there are toxic patterns and toxic dynamics in relationships, it probably will come out with food too. You don't have to take on their guilt. Sometimes things can be said as a way to manipulate, as a way to try to make you feel a certain emotion, to get you to do what they want you to do, right? So if they can make you feel guilty and not enough, then maybe you'll eat and that makes them feel better. They are simply trying to get their needs met. They are trying to regulate their own nervous system. They are trying to feel good enough so we can notice these patterns and we can also choose to abstain. There are going to be times when we want to choose our battles and really question, like, is this a hill I want to die on? And there are gonna be some hills where it's like, yep, this is. And there are some hills where it's like, nope. But it still doesn't mean that you have to eat. You don't have to eat a lot. You don't have to take anything home. You still get to do things that align with yourself, your priorities, your body that help you to feel good. Because this is also. Just because it's not something you wanna fight, it doesn't mean that it's something you have to just give into and eat or eat. A lot of this is here to really empower you. That's the whole point of this podcast as a whole, is to bring awareness, to give you the empowerment, to give you new ideas and new ways of looking at it. And sometimes we just need to see what that pattern is. We need to have that awareness piece and then know ahead of time. Here's how I want to handle it. So if you have certain holiday traditions, if you're used to going to Thanksgiving or Christmas or Hanukkah or this holiday party or this office party or whatever the event is, and you know what's to be expected, you can prepare in advance. Here's how I want to handle it. Here's what I want to tell myself in the moment. Here's how I want to think and feel on purpose. Here's the response I want to have. And it doesn't mean that we have to have it this year. Let this be your preseason. Let this be your round one, your quarter one. You don't have to have it all put together this year, but this might be a good practice year where next year becomes even better, even more solid, even more comfortable in who you are and not feeling so judged by them because we can't control what other people think of us. Trust me, I have tried. I tried for 10 years to change the way somebody thought about me, and it never worked. It didn't work, and it was infuriating. And it wasn't until I finally dropped the rope and I was willing to feel misunderstood. I was willing to feel judged. I didn't need them to think or believe anything about me because I liked me. I liked who I was. I was no longer looking for their approval or their validation. [00:15:37] I already had it. I gave it to myself and this is where we find our rooting. We find our confidence is in knowing who you are. And people can misinterpret, they can take things their own way, but they are grown ass adults and they get to be responsible now for their thoughts, their emotions, their actions. [00:15:55] And if they don't want to, that's on them. If they want to keep making you responsible, if they don't want to grow up and start doing that themselves, that's on them. [00:16:05] And often what stops them is shame. It's cycles and patterns. It's probably decades of trauma and generational trauma, but it's also shame that often stops us. That's hard, right? Like they are just trying to meet their own emotional needs. They're just trying to avoid their own core wounds. [00:16:23] We can have some compassion, we can have some love and we can still decide. I'm going to listen to my body, I'm going to stop when I'm satisfied. I'm only having one piece of dessert. I'm only going through the buffet table once. Whatever it is, whatever feels aligned for you. Decide that ahead of time and give yourself permission and freedom and peace and ease to now enjoy the people, to enjoy the conversation, to enjoy creating new memories, to enjoy reminiscing about old memories. [00:16:52] That's such a big part of the holidays and these get togethers. It's not about the food. Let's take the emphasis off of the food and what we're eating and we're drinking. Or even the self consciousness of what we think other people are thinking about us as we eat or put stuff on our plate. Because chances are we are thinking about it way more than anybody else is. We're all typically consumed with ourselves like everybody else is too busy worrying and thinking about themselves. [00:17:17] But these aspects around over functioning and feeling that. I feel responsible to eat in order to show my gratitude. I feel responsible to eat in order to please somebody, make them feel happy or valued. That is not your job. [00:17:32] And it's hard. And it's okay. If there are older people who don't get that. If there are even younger people who don't get that. We all have access to the Internet. We all have access to some form of improving our mental health and our mindset and our habits and our relationships. Relationships. It's on an individual to make these changes, to do the research, to work on themselves. And some people simply don't want to. And that's okay. That's their right. If they want to stay stuck in their trauma bonds and their trauma cycles, they get to. [00:18:03] It's okay. We can let them and now let you decide how you want to show up, how you want to respond. [00:18:12] But you are never helpless. You are never powerless. You always have options. [00:18:18] And the biggest thing is, do you like your reasons? [00:18:22] The last piece here, the fourth little part of why the holidays can feel hard and can be a struggle when it comes to food is perfectionism and this all or nothing thinking around food. It's a view of, okay, if the circumstances. I eat two cookies and my thought is, I've ruined my diet. I can't be perfect now, so why bother? Often I feel apathetic, I feel permissive. So what do I do? I eat some more. Why not? I've already blown it. Who cares? Screw it. I don't know why I kind of sounded Italian there, but that's what comes up, right? And so when we can let go of our perfectionism, we can let go of this all or nothing. [00:19:00] And we can realize that weight loss happens in the gray. Weight loss happens with mistakes. I was not perfect losing weight. None of my clients have been perfect losing weight. They still lose the weight. They still learn how to navigate their emotional eating. They still learn how to stop binge eating without being perfect. [00:19:18] Perfection is not required. [00:19:20] And the more that we can see where the all or nothing comes in where we want it to be, this or that, it's black or it's white, it's a yes or it's a no. It's good or it's bad. [00:19:29] The more that we can start to create more space for the gray, the easier we can moderate in all reality, because we can't moderate when food is bad and off limits and we're bad for eating only triggers this all or nothing. And that is one of the most common and hardest patterns to break. But you can 100% break this. [00:19:49] It's just a habit. It's a habit that you learned, which means it's a habit you can unlearn. And there's so much beauty in that. [00:19:59] So I have a couple of tips here for how to make the holidays fun and enjoyable. How to be mind without being obsessive. I think that was a big one for me. I didn't want to have to worry and stress and obsess and count and weigh and measure. But I also didn't want to just say screw it and resign myself to gaining five pounds. And so it's like, okay, there can be a middle ground here as well. [00:20:22] So step number one, I want you to make realistic plans as you Start to plan. This can trigger fears about not being perfect. And now it's like your plans are just little records of shame and how you're not good enough and you're eating too much. And really, it's like, it has to be a realistic plan. So I want you to plan. If, let's say you're traveling for Thanksgiving, I want you to plan for your travel days, for Thanksgiving Day, for the weekend after. What are you going to eat? I want you to include desserts, snacks, appetizers, drinks. You don't have to portion things out. Again, we still follow this premise of, I eat when I'm hungry, I stop when I'm satisfied. [00:21:01] That is the overarching premise. The only time I will stipulate a number or a quantity is if it's something that I want to be mindful not to overdo. Or it might be like something that I maybe in the past was very bingy, or I would tend to binge on or over consume, then I would put a number to it. So if it's a dessert, it would be like, I can have one dessert. Or if it's alcohol, maybe it's, I can have two drinks. [00:21:25] You get to decide. You get to determine that. Use numbers where it feels appropriate. [00:21:30] Right. But I want you to make a realistic plan. [00:21:34] That plan means it's going to be an 8 out of 10 or better. [00:21:37] You enjoy the plan. You like the food. It feels really good. It feels doable. You look at it and you're like, yeah, this would be really amazing. This would be really enjoyable. And then the food that's on your plan should also be an 8 out of 10 or better. If we were to put it on a scale, I think sometimes it's easy to say no to the foods or the drinks that are like a 5 or below. [00:21:57] When I have wine and it tastes more like rubbing alcohol, it's really easy to pour it down the drain. It is. But when I have wine and it's like a six and a half, a seven, it's not terrible, but it's not my favorite. [00:22:10] That's a little bit harder. I'm not gonna lie. That 6, 7 mark is where it's harder for me to throw it away. Not eat it, not save it for somebody else, or try to doctor it up and make it better. [00:22:22] But if you can really lean into letting something be an 8 out of 10 or better, maybe it's even a 9 or a 10. But this is just gonna help you to be more aware of what's worth it. And let's put our time and effort and energy into allowing what we truly value, what's really worth it to us. And I was talking today about how so much of my money, views and beliefs stem from my food views and beliefs. Because again, just like with spending, it's like what's worth it, even if it's only $20. [00:22:48] Is that a worth it thing for you? [00:22:50] I would much rather go get a massage than pay for a manicure. Manicures just don't last very long for me. I'll do a pedicure because those last for a while, but a manicure just doesn't seem to last. Or a facial. I'm just not into that as much. But somebody massaging my back. Oh, I'm in heaven. Yes, please. I will spend money on that all day, every day. [00:23:12] That's the dream. [00:23:13] So know what is worth it for you and be willing to make trade offs. This is so important. I'm gonna go get sushi for dinner tonight. As I'm recording this episode, I'll have sushi for dinner. So lunch today with some veggie soup. It was actually like a light broccoli cheddar soup that I added in some ground turkey and some extra veggies and stuff, but it was a little bit lighter of a meal. And I know I'm gonna really enjoy sushi tonight. And I would do the same thing if I was eating burger and fries. I can make trade offs. This is not a problem. [00:23:44] And one meal is not gonna throw you off. One meal does not have the power to ruin your day, ruin your week, ruin your month. Don't let it. And then plan for your travel days. Right? So not just Thanksgiving Day, but if you're traveling on Tuesday or Wednesday, what do those look like? If you're coming back on Friday, Saturday, what does that look like? Plan those travel days. If you're going to be in the car, if you're going to be on a plane, pack snacks, bring some of your own food. Look at what you have available to you. [00:24:13] The more we can plan realistically, the more likely we are to stick with it and the more we are going to feel proud of ourselves and accomplished. And we like our habits. And that is always the first step. Creating consistent habits, creating and generating pride and feeling good of your habit. Success. [00:24:35] Not just your result, success. So not just what the scale says, but how you're showing up for yourself and then handling urges. For sweets. We want to make a realistic plan for sweets, for desserts, or maybe for you it's alcohol, maybe it's both. But whatever you feel like tends to be tempting. You tend to overdo it. It's really easy to say screw it or eat a lot more of to binge on, to over consume. We want a realistic plan for that in particular. [00:25:04] So if you normally go to a holiday party and you normally have four or five drinks, don't plan for just one. Don't plan to not drink when you know you're typically going to give yourself a realistic plan. So maybe it's three, and you're like, all right, I can have three or less. And that feels really good to me. It should feel like it's enough. It's satisfying. It's not like I should be able to make do with one. I should be able to go to this holiday cookie swap and make do with one piece of dark chocolate. No, screw that. [00:25:34] We want to eat a damn cookie. In fact, you're probably gonna want a couple. So how many? And maybe it's, I want to try four different cookies, so I'm gonna cut them in half, and I'm going to eat half or maybe even a quarter, depending on how big they are. So I can try a variety of different ones. Give yourself options. But we need awareness. We want to have awareness and intentionality with what's happening, with what's going on, with our normal patterns, with how we've operated in the past. And we want to start to take it off autopilot. And the way that we do that is we pause. Whether you have a craving or an urge, whether this is going back for seconds, pause, and it's like, okay, if we can just pause and breathe for two minutes, the intensity of the urge or the craving will decrease. [00:26:18] Now we want to distract ourselves away from the food. So now go do something for, like, 20 minutes. Go talk to somebody, play a game, go listen to music. Go for a little walk. Do something. [00:26:30] Get yourself to where you are not thinking about food. You're not staring directly at it, if you can, right? Like, sometimes we maybe are sitting at a table, and so the food's on the table, and we're just gonna focus on the conversation with whomever you're sitting next to. Go do something. Engage your brain. Give it 20 minutes, and then decide, am I still hungry? Do I still want more? Have I had enough? [00:26:50] And then there's permission. There is permission to eat. And do you like your reasons? Not just now, in the moment. Are you gonna like these reasons tomorrow? Are you gonna like these reasons next week when you weigh in that's what we wanna be on the lookout for and bring that awareness to. Because this will also show you your permission, giving thoughts, excuses and justifications to eat, to overeat, to emotionally eat. And the more that we can see this during the holidays too, the more we'll see it in real life. [00:27:20] Sometimes we have more opportunities to see it around the holidays. We have more opportunity for this to come up, which means we have more opportunity to catch it, we have more opportunity to look for it. Use this for yourself. Don't be afraid of it. Don't back down. Don't shy away because you think it's going to be hard. But there's permission to eat. If you are hungry, there's permission to eat. If you still really want another dessert, there's permission to eat it. If you decided you were going to have one dessert, you already had that one. You waited your 20 minutes. You still really want a second dessert. You took your mind off of it and you're like, I just really want it. You can eat it. I'm not here to tell you what you can and can't eat, but I want you to like your reasons if you do that. My encouragement to you is to evaluate and to understand why. Why did you really want that second dessert? What was happening? What was going on? Was there any kind of trigger? How were you feeling emotionally? How were you feeling in your body, with your nervous system? [00:28:16] And sometimes it's just that we're not conscious, we're not thinking about it. We're having so much fun, we're having such a good time. And I think the holidays is actually another great example of how we can emotionally eat for positive reasons, not just negative ones, not just to escape and to avoid, to numb out. But we can eat because we're having such a good time. We don't want the night to end. We're celebrating. It can be a positive reason as to why we continue to eat or we continue to drink. Bring that awareness and allow yourself to learn. If we could go into the holidays and think of it as an experiment, I think it's like we can take some of the pressure off of it too, because pressure will shut you down. Pressure will always make it worse. It's not even so much that it impacts your results so much as it impacts your experience of it. If we can take the pressure off, we now have such a better experience of learning how to navigate this, of learning how do we say yes and no to food in a way that aligns with our values and our true hunger and satiety. [00:29:14] This is what it's all about. So give yourself some freedom. [00:29:17] Permission to get it wrong. Permission to learn from it. [00:29:20] There's something else I was gonna say and I totally forgot what it was. Now that's okay. Either it'll come back or it'll come into another episode. Either way, this is all just to help you prep and feel more capable as you head into the holidays. And not just to feel like you have to white knuckle or willpower through them, but that you can truly savor them. And if you would like some help navigating this holiday season and you'd like to come work with me, whether that's one on one or via group or a hybrid combination. Because this is the other thing I've been thinking about is doing this hybrid offer where the group is going to start in January. And if you want to come work with me and get some bonus private coaching sessions, I'll coach you through the end of the year and and then the group will start in January and this is the perfect time to be working on the emotional eating, the binge eating, the habits, and bringing in this intentionality without feeling restricted, without feeling deprived, without feeling like you're missing out. If you would like to learn more about what it would look like to work together in one of these various capacities, I would love to chat more. You can schedule your free [email protected] forward/schedule and let's talk about what the best fit for you is going to be. All right y' all have a fabulous weekend. Here's to creating the life and body you crave. [00:30:45] If this episode resonated with you, it's time to break free from destructive cycles around food, alcohol and toxic relationships. Your next step Book your free Break the Cycle call where you'll finally see why your binge eating and relationship patterns are so deeply connected and how to break free from both for good. [00:31:05] You'll walk away with fierce clarity and a game plan to step into a life full of fun, adventure and self love. Grab your spot now at www.bodyyoucrave.com VTC. [00:31:20] It's time to break the cycle. I'll show you how.

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