Intuitive Eating for the Holidays

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Intuitive Eating for the Holidays

The holiday season has long been known to be a time of tradition. Many special traditions involve family, friends and celebration, but even more revolve food. For someone struggling with problematic eating, food addiction, attempting to lose weight or change eating habits, the holiday season can be an especially difficult time.

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Happy Healthy Holiday Workshop Series

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Happy Healthy Holiday Workshop Series

Have you ever made significant changes in your diet and lifestyle, only to relapse during the holidays?

 

What starts out as a plan to have only 1 plate of food, quickly turns into 2 and then maybe by the end of the week (and 4 holiday parties later) you've decided to completely abandon your goals.

 

"I'll start over for New Years."

"There's no point in trying to make changes now...what with the holidays just around the corner."

" It's just once a year."

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How Do I Handle My Binge Eating?

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How Do I Handle My Binge Eating?

This question describes a very typical setup of what is called the  Binge, Repent, Repeat cycle. This means that typically after you binge, you experience emotions as you described "shame and disappointment" and then because of these emotions you "repent" (i.e. vow to never binge again, promise to "do better," go to the gym, etc.) and then ultimately end up bingeing again. 

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