As we enter this time of year, just before Thanksgiving, it’s important to remember how far you have come. Since starting my weight loss journey, this will be my 4th Holiday season. 4 years of approaches to the holidays. Some years, I gave myself the week off, some years I gave myself the day off, and some years I gave myself the meal off.
I always go into the holidays with a plan. I do my best to stick to that plan. I weigh myself on my normal days, just so I have a record of that number for afterwards. And I do not beat myself up if my plans don’t go according to…plan.
My family has some amazing cooks. There is always good food. And depending on what our plans for the holiday were, sometimes I would be away from my house for the entire day or just for that particular meal. A lot of times my plan revolved around whether or not I wanted to have to bring all of my macro friendly meals with me or if I wanted to just eat what everyone else was eating (Memories over Macros).
Here’s a few tips that have helped me:
1. What your plan is doesn’t really matter, just make one. Make one that you have the best chance of sticking to. If you go into the day with an unrealistic plan, you will not be able to stick to it.
2. Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t stick to the plan. Life happens. Get over it.
3. Stay on track leading up to and immediately after the holiday.
4. You can do this!
My plans for this year are pretty simple. I am going to stay on plan while I’m at home in the morning, enjoy my Thanksgiving meal with my family, and get back on track on Friday.
I will not be skipping my normal reset day. Saturday’s are our normal reset days and we enjoy the change-up from our normal weekly meal plan.
I weighed myself this morning, and I will weigh myself on Thanksgiving morning which I will use as my official weight for the week. I will also weigh again Saturday so I can have an official 7 day weight tracker for the following week.
I know that my weight will be up next Saturday following Thanksgiving. That’s life. Fluctuations happen. Don’t focus too much on that number after Thanksgiving, it’s just to give yourself a data point for the following week.
I will stay on track with my workouts. I will get in my Transform workout Thursday morning before we have a bunch of stuff going on. I will not use the holiday as my excuse to take the day off.
The most important thing, focus on that progress you have made before the holidays. You have made a ton of progress this year, one day will not derail all of that for you. You got this!
