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How To Prevent A Downward Holiday Eating Spiral At Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving can be a pretty stressful holiday. Not only is COVID-19 causing it to look very different this year, but it is also a holiday that largely revolves around food. The focus on the feast can leave many of us feeling anxious and fearful about overindulging and triggering a downward spiral of overeating between now and the new year.
If you find yourself worried about the holidays, read on for a few things you can do to prevent yourself from sliding down that slippery overindulging slope.
Strategy #5: Your Quarantine Stress Eating Survival Guide
Address Your Stress
Our health is greatly determined by how balanced the two branches of our autonomic nervous system are - the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. Chronic stress causes most people to spend more time with the sympathetic nervous system dominate and active. This post outlines several ways to address your stress and bring your autonomic nervous system into balance.
Strategy #4: Your Quarantine Stress Eating Survival Guide
Rest and Repair
Our culture teaches us that we must push ourselves into the ground in order to get results and achieve success. I fell for this belief hook, line and sinker. But this philosophy also broke my body. In this post, I share how chronic stress took a toll on my health and also offer an invitation to challenge this long-standing cultural norm and redefine what it means to work hard.
Strategy #3: Your Quarantine Stress Eating Survival Guide
Rig Your Environment In Your Favor
It is very empowering to set your immediate food environment up in a way that encourages healthy eating and reduces the likelihood you will overeat or make unsupportive food choices. Here are some tips on how to arrange your kitchen space so that it invites you to make better nutritional choices.
Strategy #2: Your Quarantine Stress Eating Survival Guide
The Art Of Making Tiny Shifts
This strategy is helpful to use after an episode of stress eating, emotional eating or general overeating. It offers a way to shift perspective so that an episode of stress eating doesn’t become an invitation to make one unsupportive decision after another.
Strategy #1: Your Quarantine Stress Eating Survival Guide
Create A Schedule. But One That Works For You.
This is a time of uncertainty and many unknowns. Both of which are incredibly stressful. So it makes total and complete sense that you might feel nudged to snack more often than usual right now. One of the best ways I have found to counter the unsettling feelings that accompany uncertainty, is to purposely and intentionally create certainty where you can. And one super simple way to do this is to establish a quarantine schedule.
The Answer You Give This Question Has the Power to Shift Everything
One of my weird little quirks is that I like to listen to battle music and write motivational speeches in my head. I do this when I’m at the gym. In the car. Sometimes even while I’m washing dishes or folding laundry. Anyone who has ever taken one of my cycle classes has been on the receiving end of this quirk as these speeches often transpire into my coaching cues.
They usually reflect something that I am working on within myself and serve as a strategy to help me navigate fear and uncertainty. As well as offer a re-frame in those times when I get caught up in my head. Which still happens to be A LOT.
I tell you this because what I want to share with you today stems from one these battle music speeches. And it goes something like this…
Embracing the Not Yet
One of my favorite quotes of all time is Henry Ford's "Either you think you can or you think you can't, either way you are right." But what happens when you can't say the words "I can" with conviction because they don't fully resonate and honor your true feelings? Here’s what to do when the words “I can” feel empty, false, or fake.