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The countdown to Halloween has begun!

Take a moment to check in with how you feel about that.

Are you:

  • Excited and eager to experience the magic of the holiday?
  • Feeling entitled to eat all the candy you want this week?
  • Dreading all the extra temptation you will be facing?
  • Feeling guilty about all the candy you’ve already consumed?
  • Feeling overwhelmed by everything you have to do to get ready for the day?
  • Feeling totally ambivalent. Halloween is a non-event for you and it will be healthy eating as usual.

If you are in that last category, I’d say count yourself lucky.

For many women, the “It’s only 1 time a year” mentally is kicking in.

Here’s the deal.

That “1 time a year” actually spans 2 months! If you aren’t making conscious decisions about what you are eating and your self-care, come January 1, you will not be happy with your body.

This doesn’t mean that the holidays can’t be fun and magical!

For some, there is this idea that you are either indulging OR you are deprived.

Believe it or not, there is middle ground!

Truly, it IS possible to have fun while being moderate.

All it takes is a little forethought and pre-planning.

I can’t tell you how much resistance many women have to this idea.

It feels too hard to plan, they say.

It takes all the fun away, they say.

Here’s some tough love for you.

Not thinking about HOW you will approach your eating during a holiday or special event is the same as not being willing to pack a condom on a date because it will take the spontaneity away if you do have sex.

Ladies, it’s time to take the keys of your own inner Queendom.

This means . . . become the leader of your own body–and life.

The desire to have sex—and eat candy—is normal and natural.

It’s nothing to be ashamed of, beat yourself up for, or hide from.

And there are healthy ways to have sex and eat candy—and there are unhealthy ways.

You really can have it all . . . IF you make the conscious decision about what you want AND you plan ahead.

Bonus! You save yourself all the guilt, deprivation, temptation, and overwhelm.

Only YOU can decide what the best approach to Halloween candy will be for you.

For instance, you might:

  • Buy candy you don’t like to eat so you don’t eat any.
  • Plan your meals so you can have a piece of candy every night after dinner.
  • Eat squeaky clean all week and allow yourself to fully enjoy the treats on Halloween night only.
  • Take leftover candy to a nursing home, or to staff of your favorite charity, or throw it away. (You can either waste it, or you waist it!)

Ask yourself, “What will feel better?”

Eating unplanned candy, telling yourself the whole time “I shouldn’t be doing this” . . . and then feeling guilty about it and beating yourself up and worrying about the after effects.

OR

Deciding what and how much, fully enjoying the experience of eating it, and getting right back on track with your healthy eating?

Take the time now to think about, plan for, and celebrate your journey from Halloween to New Year’s.

Decide now how do you want to feel on January 1 and make the conscious choices that will help you get there.

Together we can do it!

What if . . . 

you could Love Your Way Through the Holidays?

Unless you do something different this year, chances are you will start January 1, 2014, making yet another New Year’s resolution to lose weight.

Give yourself the gift of not only getting the support you need to begin the New Year looking and feeling your best . . . but the skills, information, and techniques that will ensure you love your body every January 1st to come.

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