November 9
Figure out what aspect of the season is your biggest Achille’s heel (being too busy, stress, baking and cooking, entertaining, people’s parties, exercise drops out, junk you allow in your house, the influence of other people) and then make plans this year to account for that in your planning. Either bank ahead for it or figure out how to head off the behavior. What can you do about it? When do you need to do it?
Case in point: A client of mine has typically gotten himself in the most trouble with the leftovers he brings from his Mom’s. He won’t ever eat badly in front of people, so he is safe while the event is going on. But later, in the privacy of his own home…ah, well that is when all hell breaks loose. This year, he is trying two new strategies. He has already spoken with his Mom so that she doesn’t shop with the anticipation of giving him lots to take home “for his kids”, and then lay guilt on him if he resists that. He has also made plans for a meal of his choice the night after the holiday celebration. He is literally bribing himself into handling it differently this year. That “reward meal” will be outside his home so it is portion controlled and he will feel like a normal person eating a normal nice meal – a far cry from the feelings that follow a late night binge on Mom’s leftovers theoretically “for the kids” in his darkened kitchen with the family innocently asleep upstairs.
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