MAINTAINING MENTAL WELLNESS DURING THE HOLIDAYS
**HOLIDAY SURVIVAL Mind and Body!**🎄🎄🤩🤩🥳
Maintaining Mental Wellness During the Holidays
If you have been doing "weight loss" for a while you can get a little lost with it all.
Things start to feel too comfortable, and your results are not as good, then you lose focus and you get lost. Especially this time of year.🍾🎄🍪🧁🍾🎄
Perhaps you forgot WHY you were doing it in the first place.
Other things come in and take over your life…
Work
Meetings
Overtime
Family commitments
Holiday parties
Surprise visits from friends and relatives
Which means you have little time to focus on what you want to achieve and days just blur into one after the other.
AND THAT'S OK!!
Because sometimes this NEEDS to happen in order for there to be a shake-up.🙆♀️
A new approach, with a fresh set of eyes and a newfound motivation to try something new or do something different.
I think sometimes we focus so much on the DOING we forget the BEING…
Who we want to BE and what we want to FEEL from it all.
If that's you... just take a step back, take some time to refocus and ask the question...
WHO is it I want to BE and what do I want to FEEL
And then go from there🤗
Because sometimes it is not always about starting with the body FIRST it is about starting with the MIND
**Because they say where the mind goes the body follows... **
HERE is Tip number 2 so you can be successful over this holiday season and into 2020!
Start a Food Journal
Keeping a food journal seems like a lot of work, but it's SO beneficial in several ways. I keep a journal tracking my weight, sleep, water, food, mood and yes...bathroom habits.🤪🤩
First, it makes you accountable. Ever since I started to record daily weight, everything I eat, I've been much more aware of what I put in my body. And it's helped me through holidays and allowed me to lose 20lbs and KEEP IT OFF for 2 years!
It also helps you *connect the dots between your diet and your mood. *That’s how I realized that sugar and certain other empty carbs, more than any other ingredient, was causing mood swings and water retention. BUT this does NOT mean you have to stop it altogether...just keep track. Tracking is a tool, not a punishment or an embarrassment!
Finally, it’s not a bad idea to leave some room in your food journal to express your thoughts — possibly the trigger for your urge to overeat. Journaling has been proven as an effective, inexpensive form of stress relief.
When we record our thoughts, it gives us an opportunity to assess them and to let them go. TRULY!! And every day - I write the words POSITIVE and PRODUCTIVE in my morning journaling.
When people are given the opportunity to write about emotional upheavals, they often experience improved health, They go to the doctor less. They have changes in immune function. WHICH IS HUGE!
