I hate the holidays this year (an r/loseit Christmas rant)

I’m so done with the holidays. I’ve been doing this for long enough that I really feel like I have a handle on it - I can handle social events and stay mostly on track, and I’m pretty good at planning around days where I know I’ll probably go over. I’ve been losing 8-10lbs a month since August. But now it’s the holidays, which is a whole different level of social events. They’re constant, I’m expected to be at every single one of them, and they all revolve around food!

I’m already planning on taking a day off from tracking on Christmas and Christmas Eve and just working on listening to my body and not eating when I’m not hungry. That strategy worked pretty well for me on thanksgiving. But it’s the little in between events that are killing me. My cousin graduated this weekend, so the whole family went out to get Mexican food and then had a party the next night with barbecue. Our family cookie decorating party is on Friday. My childhood friends are in town and want to get drinks. It feels neverending.

I understand that I could take a month and eat at maintenance and it wouldn’t derail me, but I don’t want to do that. I want to continue losing weight and also not become a recluse, so I’m using my strategy for days where I know there’s a large meal in store - I’m paying attention to my body’s hunger cues, eating only what I really need to, and saving as many of my calories as I can for the big events or meals. But I’m finding out more and more that I’m not cut out for the OMAD life, it makes me irritable that I can’t plan out my day to eat food that makes me feel good in quantities I want, and I hate that I know I could be getting the most out of those days if I could plan and meal prep like I usually do. The food at these parties isn’t even usually good! Ugh!

Realistically, I know this is only a season and it’ll be over soon enough, and that I’m not feeling the temptation to use the holidays to derail my progress. But I can’t wait to be back in my kitchen with a meal plan that is laid out with food that makes me look and feel good again.

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