Christmas Parties

[Guest guest]

Thank you all so much for your recent support and kindness.  It has meant so

much to me.

 

Is anyone else anxious about the Holiday parties.  Tonight is the first of 4

this week for me.  I love to see my friends and be with family but I tend to

relieve the stress of social events using food.  So I am more than a little

anxious.  I really need to take care of my body in a healthy way right now

(always, but more right now because I have been in a downward spiral in terms of

eating in a healthy way). 

 

So anyway, I knew that many of you would understand and just needed to tell

someone how anxious I am and how determined I am to choose to be good to myself

at each of these events. Tonight I am trying to take with me some self

compassion and a big dose of wise woman.  I am planning on tapping on wise woman

after dinner to help me deal with my anxiety and get through that hour or so

after eating that is always hardest for me.   I wanted to go with a plan about

what I would eat and not eat so that I could eliminate some of the stress but I

have waited to long and I do not know what there will be there - I am praying

for healthy choices that will make ot easier for me,  I thought about eating

 before going so I could just enjoy the company of others but my husband does

not like it when I do that and I hate to stand out.  It seems when I am not

eating everyone wants to comment.  So I am going to choose a healthy portion of

whatever is and then just

be done.

 

Do you any of you use food to deal with the stress of the holidays and those

gatherings.  How do you prepare to choose healthy eating when you go?

  Livingston