True Holiday Confessions

I think one of the best things you can do for your health, is to lose the idea that you need to confess. To lose (and maintain) weight, you don't have to exercise, you don't have to eat very healthy, you don't even have to log your food. All you need to lose and maintain weight, is to consistently eat an appropriate amount of calories. A healthy diet is balanced and varied, enough, but not too much, of all the nutrition you need; healthy eating encompasses both a healthy diet, and a healthy - relaxed and trusting - relationship with food and your body. Exercise, diet composition and food logging are only tools to help you achieve your goals, not goals in themselves.

Trying to do things perfectly is not a good goal, it just leads you to fail miserably.