Comments on: Finding Balance with Holiday Food

By: Erika Brockmann

Erika Brockmann — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:50:07 +0000

You are AMAZING; this is so spot on. It's almost like a personal holiday FOMO that we've created for ourselves during the toughest times of our lives...something that you totally don't think will be a side effect while going through anything and you learn that you've taken the holidays and their stress free ways for granted. You wonder how everyone else can be so go with the flow while you're in your own anxious head. This is such an important post for so many reasons; I hope that it finds its way to many people who need to read it to let them know that lots of people in recovery go through with it - the holidays suddenly don't have to feel so lonely thank you SO much for sharing, I'm so grateful for this blog Erika www.thetallthingsblog.com

By: Kylie Naveau

Kylie Naveau — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 02:36:02 +0000

Thank you, Jordan, for this post!
I’ve been getting really anxious about this holiday season, for it is my first one since I’ve been in recovery. Its always good to hear that I am not the only one who struggles with finding balance. I will definitely keep your tips in mind, I especially like the one about focusing on the meaning of the holiday and having a mantra I can connect to when I get nervous about the food.
I do have a question though, with so many friends and family around for the holidays, how do you stay true to your needs when you have so many other people who want something different? For example, if you are truly not hungry when everyone else wants to eat dinner, what is something you can do to stay true to your body’s needs while also including and enjoying the company?
Thanks Jordan!
Happy Holidays!
– Kylie

By: Krista

Krista — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 04:44:41 +0000

Ugh girl. you always have the best most practical thorough posts – FOR REAL.

This – my life.

Something about those foods that trigger me make me feel like I can never get enough — and like I will never “let” myself have them again, so I’d better eat them all. Even though I so know better than that and know that they are not off limits to me, so I can have them again. It’s an INTERNAL thing that happens in my body… something that I don’t have a lot of control over once it gets going. (Literally a bio-chemical process that goes down, it’s fascinating really.)

I really am working on this lately, identifying them and finding ways to have better relationships with trigger foods.

So important.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS MY LOVE.

xoxo
Krista
http://www.hundredblog.com