You do what over Christmas?!

Chatting with my friends recently about keeping healthy over Christmas and when I mentioned that my clients still send in their food diaries over Christmas I was met with a shocked face…

“You do what?
What about Christmas?
Let them have their holiday!”

Like I’m the grinch, come to ruin these peoples holidays by taking away their sweeties.

but the reality is that while the season is merry and bright, if you are new to your changed way of eating there is temptation around every corner.

Foods that you don’t usually eat
People almost forcing you to eat them
Snacking on tins of chocolates, drinking spirits and ‘resting’ while watching tele

All of these behaviours are not only normal over the festive period, they are encouraged.

So I can only conclude that if my clients wanted to ditch the accountability and structure I give them for those two weeks they are basically saying:

“For two weeks over Christmas I don’t want to see progress.”

I don’t want accountability
I don’t want structure
I don’t want to ‘worry’ about what I eat
I’ll wait until the new year.

This mentality is great for the quick fixers, the people who believe they can starve themselves to a 10lb weight loss in five days.

But for those people who realise that weight has to come off the same way it went on,

slowly but surely

these two weeks should not be wasted.

So have fun, of course
Eat things you wouldn’t usually eat, of course

But if it’s 5pm and you’re eating that mince pie ‘just because’ put it down

Think of it as doing the right thing by your body

Yeah ok, sometimes it won’t be ‘fun’ but neither is paying your bills,
doesn’t change that both need to be done.

With a great body comes great responsibility.

Ainzlie “not the grinch” McMaster

P.s

Merry Christmas xx