With the ongoing festivities and delicious food around, how are you currently controlling your urge to eat? How do you manage to stay on track and not break your fast?
Look up Urge Surfing and playing the tape through. These are techniques used in addiction recovery but can apply to any area of your life.
I’m at the point where I ask myself if something will get me closer to or further from my goal. I stopped thinking of junky foods as “treats”. I have a fuller understanding of what they do to my body and how much they set me back from my goals.
People love to day “it’s the holidays. Treat yourself”. This often turns into a month long binge with people starting off the new year having undone months of progress. You see them at the gym for a couple of weeks. Then they get discouraged and say “diets don’t work”. It’s an endless cycle.