Well here we are Christmas morning. I know (and hope) that many of us will be off to friends and relatives homes today to celebrate this holiday, often with a huge feast. Many have been talking about NOT participating in these festivities because it will just ruin your weight loss journey. You are vowing to not eat anything anyone made and even making up an excuse to just not show up. Please don’t! 🥺

Enjoy your time with your family Christmas comes but once each year and seldom do we have such a wonderful opportunity to be so absorbed in the warmth and love our families provide. Yes, I know uncle Bob is a lush and Aunt Mary is a gossip. Your brother-in-laws jokes are dumb, sometimes off-color. Grandpa will refuse to participate in any games, and will fall asleep in his favorite chair. The kids will run wild and the cats will insist on shedding all over your cloths. The house will be full of treats and junk you would never allow in your house and dinner will be an array of high calorie, over carb, over salted, over sweetened…but it is all made and/or purchased with love by people who love you for who you are. Our time is so short and we seldom have an opportunity to really feel the love from the people who truely love us the most.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow, you will put on your sweats and take a little longer walk, a few more minutes on the elliptical, a half dozen extra sit ups. We will all get our journals out and diligently record every mouthful we eat. 😇. If you are smart you won’t jump on that scale until next weigh in day. And in my mind we will all be happier and will be energized to hit the new year with renewed determination.

Anyway, that is what I will be doing. Merry Christmas to you all. Here to much less of all of us in the coming year!