What Color are Your Holiday Containers?
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:06 pm
No, I would never be so tacky as to try to sell anything here. Stop looking at me like that! (But I'm an SEO writer and I often think in cheesy sales terms).
I suspect that there are a lot of people here who have a big ole feast on a holiday, feel bad about it and then decide that they're just not gonna think about good habits until the holiday season is over or until some date is reached.
I do.
With the Habitcal (God, I love that, by the way), there's this strong visual image of containment around S days. I was thinking that I want my holiday containers to be green this year. No jumping the gun on the holiday, no letting it bleed over to another day, but neatly containing the fun of my S-days in the proper place with nice green containers on either side.
A lot of us worry about S days so much. I'm overweight enough that I don't really think weekends or holidays is or has ever been my problem. For me, it's definately the bad weekday habits. For me, I'm going to be working very hard indeed on N days until it's quite ingrained. I figure that the holiday season will be a fun challenge because it's very clear. Thanksgiving is a holiday. The day after Thanksgiving isn't -- etc.
I'm a little concerned about the week of Christmas because I'm going to be visiting my family, but only a little. In reality, there's only going to be one N day while I'm there -- Dec 26th. I figure I can not snack and not eat cookies and stuff for one day, and if I exclaim over Mom's wonderful tea or coffee selection that day, it would hardly even be noticed. If that doesn't work, I'll just tell her what I'm doing. We actually used to run a weight loss center together before we got disgusted with the pressure of keeping our weight down. She'll be sympathetic to attempts at moderation, I think, even though we're generally not moderate people.
I suspect that there are a lot of people here who have a big ole feast on a holiday, feel bad about it and then decide that they're just not gonna think about good habits until the holiday season is over or until some date is reached.
I do.
With the Habitcal (God, I love that, by the way), there's this strong visual image of containment around S days. I was thinking that I want my holiday containers to be green this year. No jumping the gun on the holiday, no letting it bleed over to another day, but neatly containing the fun of my S-days in the proper place with nice green containers on either side.
A lot of us worry about S days so much. I'm overweight enough that I don't really think weekends or holidays is or has ever been my problem. For me, it's definately the bad weekday habits. For me, I'm going to be working very hard indeed on N days until it's quite ingrained. I figure that the holiday season will be a fun challenge because it's very clear. Thanksgiving is a holiday. The day after Thanksgiving isn't -- etc.
I'm a little concerned about the week of Christmas because I'm going to be visiting my family, but only a little. In reality, there's only going to be one N day while I'm there -- Dec 26th. I figure I can not snack and not eat cookies and stuff for one day, and if I exclaim over Mom's wonderful tea or coffee selection that day, it would hardly even be noticed. If that doesn't work, I'll just tell her what I'm doing. We actually used to run a weight loss center together before we got disgusted with the pressure of keeping our weight down. She'll be sympathetic to attempts at moderation, I think, even though we're generally not moderate people.