Do you need a Thanksgiving Strategy?

Published: Mon, 11/20/17

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Good morning  

It's Thanksgiving week! Yay, I love, love the holidays. I am so excited to enjoy all the food, the company, the games, and the beautiful weather.

Speaking of almost perfect weather- Little Trippin With the Smiths update. I'm posted up in Cali for the next few weeks, and I am super grateful for this temperate climate. It's really just right - the weather, not too hot and not too cold.

Anywho, back to this Thanksgiving business.

There was a time when I didn't enjoy the holidays, and I don't want that for you.

You are about to be bombarded with tons of Holiday marketing. Probably already have been - tips, tricks, how to stick to your diet, how to navigate the food, etc...

Brace yourself for “you ate it now negate it” memes. Just NO!



This is my kind of meme right here! 
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Heck, I even created a Thriving Through the Holiday Nutrition Guide. However, it has no extremes nor voodoo quackery telling you how you should or shouldn't eat. There is no eat this not that food lists, or only eating the Turkey and veggies. None of that nonsense. 

I've had it with this kind of stuff. I even went through it myself. I am speaking from experience. Punishing myself with exercise for what I ate on Thanksgiving. Ugh. I didn't even enjoy Thanksgiving - the food or my family because I was either overstuffed or only eating certain things at Thanksgiving.

I said enough is an enough after this one Thanksgiving, probably about four years ago.

Quick story on this particular Thanksgiving - I woke up to train so that I could eat all I wanted. I ate, and I ate. I ate so much that I was physically uncomfortable, borderline sick. Before dinner, I even went for a run, because I thought I could work the food off before dinner and make room for more.

This was an all time low for me during my dieting days! This behavior was due to the diets - the diet cycle, the clean eating BS, the good foods and the bad foods mentality which I have spoken about many, many times before.  I was acting as if I would never eat food again - diet mentality, I better eat all this because it's not allowed in my diet and this food is so bad.

Just NO! That was the last time I used exercise as punishment, food as a reward, and anything that goes along with Dieting Culture.

So to wrap things up!

This Thanksgiving, please enjoy all the food you love - that's genuinely the only strategy that you need. No extremes either direction. Eat what you really like, savor every bite, enjoy your family, play, laugh. Eat the delicious food and simply move on!

Workout if you like to, but not because you have to - you get to because it's something you love doing.

The very next day you go back to your normal routine. As I like to say, the "proverbial" track….. really there is no track! There is life, and there will always be holidays or something that will take us away from our normalcy. Just adjust and adapt for the time being.

Please just be, sit, and enjoy. Life is too short to be crunching and calculating numbers, or worrying about how much exercise you'll have to do work off that delicious Mac & Cheese. Eat the pie, if you like the pie or whatever. You already have nutrition practices in place, and you can still apply them how you see fit.

I, myself, will be eating all the things! I'm looking forward to Pumpkin Cheesecake. But – I know that the food will be available tomorrow, the next day, and that it’s not off limits during my normal week, so I don’t have to gorge myself on it for Thanksgiving!

Thank for allowing to me take up space in your inbox. Have a great week!

Yours in Strength and Health
Xo
Candace

P.S. Hit reply and tell me what your favorite Thanksgiving dish is!

P.S.S. I do have a really sweet Black Friday Special coming your way, you get first dibs. So stayed tuned for that!


 
 

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