- Hello everybody, welcome back. So today what I wanna talk about is how the

holidays and weight loss happen because I know what a lot of you are already

thinking. You're thinking that the holidays are like the worst time of the year to

even try to lose weight. But I wanna tell you what I think. I think the holidays

are as good a time as any, if not better to actually lose your weight.

But that's only if you're not trying to lose weight like a complete asshole y 'all.

And by that this is what I mean. A lot of us will do a bunch of starving all

day and saving up calories for big -ass meals and then wonder why we lose control.

We will deny ourselves for weeks on end all the things that we love to eat during

the holidays and then suddenly cave right when Christmas week hits.

we'll skip a lot of parties because we don't know what they're going to serve. And

then we sit at home feeling like some kind of hermit asshole who doesn't have a

life. And then the next thing we know, we're eating at home because we're not at

the damn party. And then a lot of us, we kind of hold up in our house and we

will skip family functions and stuff or because we don't want to have all the food

pushers around us. Or we go and we just take it in the ass and eat whatever the

food pusher split in front of us. This is what I want to tell you. I did not

lose my weight doing asshole tactics during the holidays. I do not teach my clients

to do asshole tactics during the holidays and I for sure don't advocate for any

fucking body, especially my clients, to not at least try during the holidays.

Now, I have had years where I have told clients this is you can use this if you

want I tell them before we go into the holidays I just want you to decide do you

want the keyword here is want do you want to gain weight this holiday season do

you want to maintain your weight during the holiday season or would you like to

lose weight during the holiday season so which one do you want the most and a lot

of times they would be like well I don't want to gain weight and then I would

explain to them look if you don't mind gaining a few pounds during the holidays

then let's just do it on purpose. Let's actually plan that you are going to be

eating a lot of these types of foods and you're going to be eating uh out more

and you know like all the things. I always tell my clients I I think it's 100 %

possible to easily lose weight during the holidays. If you do the shit I teach,

it's easy. You don't feel like you're being punished. It doesn't feel awful. But

some people just don't want to do that. They don't want to stop it enough during

the holidays. And they don't want to wait until they're hungry during the holidays.

They might not want to plan some of their food during the holidays. And I'm like,

that's fine. And they will say like, you know, during this season, I want to eat

more cookies than I normally would because I teach you can eat anything. And they're

like, well, I'm gonna wanna eat more cookies than I normally do. And I'm gonna

wanna eat out more often than I currently do. And I'm gonna wanna eat, like, you

know, until my pants have to be practically taken off in order to sit down.

Like, that's the kind of meals I want to have. I'm like, that's fine, because when

you consciously decide to go into the holidays saying, "I want to gain some weight

this holiday season and do these things," then it's a lot easier to wake up on

January not being pissed, not feeling like you failed yourself.

You wake up on January ready to go, because you knew exactly what you were doing

during the holidays. The problem is most of us start the holidays

being like not even thinking about it, just thinking it's impossible. So back in the

day before I lost weight, I used to wake up January 1st, just miserable as fuck y

'all. I'd be bloated, I'd be cranky, and pissed that I gained more weight. And it

was always so awful because I would feel even more helpless than I did before the

holidays. And because I had gained weight during the holidays, I would wake up

January 1, desperate as fuck. And feeling that desperate meant one thing for me.

I was going to sign up for whatever asinine diet that was all the rage.

If my friends were doing it, that's what I was going to do. If it was on the TV,

that's what I was going to do. Like, I would do anything Because I was so

desperate and some years it was a cleanse that tasted like I was drinking out of a

porta potty The only thing cleanses ever did for me was make my ass run straight

buttermilk for a week And in the second the food phase would finally start back up

I would gain like one pound thinking that I must have done something wrong. I must

be fucked up I would freak out eat a bunch of shit because I was upset and hungry

as fuck and then guess what? I was quitting that cleanse, but that shit didn't

work. And then there were times that I'd be so desperate that I would pick a meal

plan that would require a fucking degree in food engineering.

Between the weighing and the measuring, all the food prep because everything was like

some kind of fresh organic bullshit and having to take my food with me everywhere I

went, it was not long that I would be quitting that shit because it was taking

over my life. Now, I'm gonna say through all of that, the one thing that stayed

constant was I really wanted to lose weight. I wanted it so bad. And every year I

would make promises to myself like, if I can just get this weight off, This time

it'll be different no matter what I did for some reason I had a fooling thought in

my head that I'll figure it out I'll like how to live with this or I will figure

out how to eat after this asinine diet is all over It was as if losing weight

with any means necessary was somehow Gonna magically fix my boss who never told me

I did a good job, so I would eat at the drive -through after work. Somehow I was

gonna fix my inability to sleep through the night because I woke up with worries

and a race in mind at 3 a .m., which then in turn made me eat like a asshole all

day long the next day because I was so tired. It was like these any means

necessarys were gonna fix my stress from worrying that I would never Mary or all of

the arguments and shit that I was having with like friends or my family, there was

no way that Asinine diets were ever going to fix the things that were going on in

my life that would drive me to food because I wasn't able to work on those things.

I didn't know how to work on those things and I didn't even realize how much those

things were causing me to be an overeater, an emotional eater.

I was an emotional eater and that is why I never could lose weight. It wasn't

because I was lazy, broken or undisciplined. It was simply because nobody was showing

me what my real problems were. And once I figured out what the real problem was,

it was quite easy to lose weight, especially during the holidays. And I will just

be honest, deep down, I knew the truth. I just didn't want to admit it. Every

year, when January 1 would roll around, I was going to sign up for a plan that I

was only going to be able to do for so long before I ran out of motivation or

steam to just keep doing it. There were rules stacked on rules.

Every diet was full of food. I hate it. And there was absolutely no fun involved.

So I knew deep down that I needed help figuring out a way to eat for the rest of

my life. I needed help figuring out why is it that no matter how bad I want to

lose weight, sometimes something triggers me to just set that desire aside and eat

anyway.

So that desperateness often led me to start things like keto,

low carb, diet pills, shake diets. Just so on January 1st,

I could feel better in the moment. It's like I really knew those were not the

answer, but my desperateness to lose weight to me every time into thinking just get

through the suffering and when you get the weight off then we'll figure out the

rest and it just never worked. So when I look back I never quit those thoughts

because I was weak but it felt like it every damn time. I would have sworn to you

that I was lazy, I was not committed enough or just somehow so broken that I was

destined to be fat for the rest of my life. I mean, I would have bet you a

million dollars. I would have bet you everything I had in my bank and I didn't

have no million dollars back in my 20s. Trust the fucking me. So I quit because

that shit that I was doing all the time wasn't realistic and it didn't help me

with why I ate the way I did it didn't help me like slowly layer in the good

habits and it didn't help me break my worst habit of all the habit of talking to

myself really bad like an asshole every mistake I made in life not just with

dieting I would beat myself up so bad when I was dieting the beat It's made me

quit so that I could quit feeling so miserable. Wasn't the diet making me miserable?

It was my judgment about how I showed up in the diet that made me really

miserable. When I wasn't dieting, the beat downs would have me eating so I could

quit feeling so bad. After years of this January 1st bullshit, I eventually figured

out that if a diet plan required me to become a different person overnight, it's

not a way to lose weight and keep it off. And I wanted to lose weight and keep

it off. I didn't want to just lose weight, gain it back, and do that dance over

and over again for the rest of my life.

Bullshit diets that I used to do, they were just band -aids for feeling like a

failure because I was fat. So I did stop signing up for this shit, and I started

doing my own thing that I felt had to be better than the way that I'd been trying

to lose weight for years and years and years. So I want to talk about the holidays

and what is the real problem behind holiday weight gain? Like why do we typically

gain weight during the holidays? Even though we really do want to lose our weight.

So we are not gaining weight because we're eating granny's dressin' on Thanksgiving

or the cookies that you and your grandkids make together every year. That is the

food you love. That is the food that's tied to your memories. That is the food

that all of us are entitled and deserve to enjoy 100%.

I think holiday weight gain comes from other bullshit. It's not that. It's the other

bullshit. It's like this. You're eating fast food in a car because you're running

yourself ragged to make sure everybody in your damn life has the perfect holiday.

You're stressed out about the presents. You're worried they won't like it. You're

worried you're not doing enough. You're worried your house is not clean enough.

You're worried about, you know, well, you kids like it. Well, your mama like it.

You're worried about a million things. And so, of course, you're exhausted.

You're over trying. You're worrying. And yeah, you're grabbing that fast food in

between all the targets and the Walmarts and the wherever you go to buy your

Christmas shit. I tell you another thing the weight gain comes from is from grabbing

random shit off the holiday potluck table at the office because you're sitting there

thinking, "Why bother being good? It's just too hard to lose weight during the

holidays." You're like a big -ass Eeyore. So instead of making a delightful and

enjoyable, reasonable plate of food that you can eat until you've had enough,

you've got it stuffed to the gills with shit that you don't even love, that you

ain't even going to remember. But but you dance, you're going to go home bloated in

full of regrets. Another thing that causes our holiday weight gain. It's hitting the

break room 10 times. I know you teachers know this. I know you nurses and doctors

know this. Then break rooms, those lounges, they full of shit during the holidays.

Full of it. But that's not the problem. It's you going in there 10 times a day

because work is stressful and all those holiday popcorn tins and those little candies

they're just sitting there innocently looking at you saying like I am your oasis in

the stressful desert come eat me so instead of you taking a quick break to reset

yourself even if you have to go sit on a toilet and do some deep breathing while

you listen to meditation music on your damn iPhone, you're in there shoving food in

your mouth running back to your duties and pushing through.

And the other thing that often leads to weight gain is shoving down some fudge just

because you don't want to hurt Aunt Carol's feelings and Listen to Uncle Bocephus

say, "Why don't you just live a little? "Seems like you're always on a diet. "Why

are you even bothering? "You've been overweight and you're a 10." Instead of saying

this to Aunt Carol. You know, since I am not hungry, do you mind if I take some

of this home with me? It looks so delicious. I'd rather eat it at home when I'm

gonna really enjoy it. Instead, you know what we do? Shove fudge in our mouth,

put on a happy face, see on the inside because nobody supports you,

and then we go home and eat even more shit because we blew it. And we blame all

that on Aunt Carol. On Aunt Carol and her fudge. This is why you gain weight

instead of lose weight during the holidays. And that is the stuff that absolutely

breaks my heart because I hear people tell it to me all the time.

And I know if you just had one person in your life helping you cut all that

bullshit eating out, then you would have plenty of room to eat some stuff you love

and lose weight. But this is the unfortunate truth. Women feel powerless.

We feel like we only have two choices during the holidays. Do some dumbass diets

that ruin the holidays or eat like an asshole and wake up after the holidays,

feeling like we've ruined ourselves. That's what I call putting ourselves in a no

-win fucking situation. And you have been put into that for way too long.

I can promise you these things. Losing weight doesn't mean you've got to count every

calorie. You ain't got a food prep like your own top chef. You do not have to

skip out on dinners with your family. You do not need to cut out everything you

actually love to eat, especially that are closely tied to memories and celebrations

and special moments with your family and You do not need to live in the fucking

gym in order to lose weight during the holidays during a time of year when we have

less time than usual So it is no wonder to me That women don't want to diet

during the holidays That's why so many of us are giving up and saying, "You know

what? I'm just going to eat and then I'm going to fix it all in January. I'm

going to kick that can down the road." And we say that because it gives us relief.

We don't have to think. We're just going to eat. It just has a terrible consequence

because you're going to wake up on January 1st and you're going to be looking back

at your holidays, not amazed

at what a wonderful time you had. You're not gonna be thinking about all the

amazing memories you created. You're not gonna be thinking about all of the good

times you had. You're probably gonna wake up regretting that you ate like a asshole

all the way through it.

That is going to not allow you to see the amazing parts of our holidays.

And I just think that that's awful, awful.

I just remember so many times in my life where I had amazing trips and stuff and

I would come home and all I thought about was how much food I ate and how sick I

feel about it and wishing I could do better

and not even remembering moments with my grandparents, moments with my mother,

all of that gets clouded out. And I can tell you from perspective, as someone who's

lost a hundred pounds, I don't have my grandparents anymore.

And when I look back, all those years where I just ate whatever, gave up during

holidays and stuff, I can't tell you anything I ate that was worse,

losing those memories, those moments, them having like the veil of regret all over

them, not one. In fact, when I look back on most holidays now,

when I would end the holidays, I was just spinning out in so much regret and

shame. And now when I look back on holidays, I cannot tell you hardly anything I

ever ate. When I look back on holidays with my grandparents, I do remember the

special times with them. I just wish that in the moment that I would have

experienced them more because I would give anything to have them now. So I want to

talk about three mistakes that you could be making this holiday season because I

don't want you to be like me. I don't want that life for you. And I think you

could be making one or all three of these mistakes. It's not weird if you're making

all three of them. Please don't beat yourself up or judge yourself. You do not need

to. But they're the biggest mistakes I see women making during the holidays and you

don't have to make them. And so mistake number one is I think something that almost

every woman that probably listens to me because I know my clients always tell me

this is the hardest hurdle for them to overcome. All or nothing thinking. This is

when you've got it in your head that the holidays made you either have to be

perfect on your diet or you might as well just throw in the towel until January.

And let me tell you That doesn't work. When you're trying to be perfect,

what you're doing is you're just white -knuckling through your parties and you're

staring at dessert tables, like some kind of creeper, and you're just wishing you

could eat. And when you give up, finally, when you have a bite, when you do

something bad, and I say that with quotes, 'cause I don't believe anybody's doing

anything bad, but what do we say to ourselves? I'm being bad. I'm just going to be

bad. The second that starts, you are eating every random thing that walks by your

face. And it's not because you love all this food. It's because you're telling

yourself, what is the point? If I can't do it right, why even bother? And then we

do that little why that we like to tell ourselves, I'll start in January. Mistake

number two is people pleasing with food. This happens to be a really big one. So

many of you eat just to make other people comfortable. You eat because your mom

made her special monkey bread and when you had a slice she said you must want more

than that. Come on just live a little. You always eat more. Or,

you eat because your coworkers are pushing cookies on you. They say, "Girl,

ain't nobody going to lose weight this month, so you might as well come over to

the dark side and have you a good time. Marshes cookies are the bomb." Or you eat

because your grandma made something just for you. And she's so sweet,

And you think if you say, "No, thank you," that somehow you've crushed her soul.

You know, I remember one time, talking about soul crushing, it was Thanksgiving.

And this was in the middle of my weight loss, like when I was losing weight. I

was probably down like a good 60 pounds at this point. And my mother,

God love her, she's cooking Thanksgiving dinner. And I planned to eat some stuff.

Like I was gonna have my turkey. There was a few vegetables that she made a really

like. I was gonna have a delightful salad and I was gonna have a little bit of

dessert. Well, I wasn't eating mashed potatoes and the sin of all sins.

I wasn't gonna have the Thanksgiving stuffing, her dressing. Well,

I just gotta be honest with y 'all. I've never liked cornbread dressing. Not a

fucking day in my life, I don't know where this woman ever got that I was gonna

have dressing anyway. But when she saw me making what I think would be different

than what I'd ever done before, a reasonable plate. There were foods on there I

liked. There was plenty of food for me, but I wasn't eating like it was the last

supper.

She goes, "Why are you not having my dressing?" And I said, "Mama, I don't like

dressing. I don't want any dressing." And she made some flip comment about me

dieting. Now I get why she made this comment. My mother also struggles,

like she has struggled with her weight all her life. And I think seeing me losing

weight and seeing me like eating reasonably, probably brought up shame inside of her

that maybe she wasn't doing it. This is where I like to always think about why

might somebody be uncomfortable or say the things that they do. I never asked her,

but this is what I just assumed because it makes me feel better. So she's like,

"You'll never know." As She's stirring. I don't even know what she was stirring on

the stove, but it was very dramatic. You'll never know how much it hurts my

feelings when you don't eat my dressing.

First of all, I said, "Mama, I don't even like dressing." I said,

"Second of all, I just looked at her and I said, "Mama, I love you. And whether

or not I eat dresser or not, it's not gonna make me love you any more than I

already do, and I ate my plate.

Now, I don't know that my mother felt any better. She didn't look like she did,

but today, every time I recant that story, we have a big laugh and she don't even

remember saying it. I am sure for about a good hour,

knowing my mother, she was not very happy about it. But we continued on with

Thanksgiving. We have a lovely relationship now. And this is why I decided that I

was not going to keep eating and being pissed off on the inside, wishing I could

say no to people, and then beating myself up later for overeating.

I made a command decision a long time ago, and I invite all of you to do this. I

just started deciding that it is okay for me to be happy.

It is okay for me to be proud. And it is okay for me to make decisions for

myself while others are uncomfortable with it.

I no longer was going to be like, I'm going to make them happy and me bear all

the burden of being uncomfortable. Because most people when you say no when it comes

to food pushers, they're uncomfortable and they move on. When you're an overeater and

you stuff your face and you don't want to you don't move on You remember it and

The next year when you go to the holidays, what are you doing? You're not thinking

about seeing everybody You're not thinking about the amazing time and stuff. You're

dreading You're dreading going in you're dreading being tempted and food -pushed So at

some point I just decided, I'm just gonna draw a line on the inside.

I'm not drawing a line outside. I'm not going in guns of blazing and telling

everybody, hey, motherfuckers, this is how I'm eating this time. And you can all

just like sit on my bird and spin. You do not have to be rude and bitchy and in

your face to people. You can be kind and you can be understanding,

you can be compassionate, and you can hold your own internal boundaries with you.

You can set a boundary on the inside that it is no longer okay for me to suffer

so that somebody else can have five seconds of joy, and then they're moving on and

not remembering it. So, mistake number three is skipping the little things that

actually make the biggest differences. And this is the huge one. Instead of just

asking yourself all the way through the holidays, the king ding dong question that I

give y 'all to lose weight, am I hungry before you eat? Or pausing just long enough

to make a plate that's reasonable rather than just loading it up because that's what

you always do. All I'm saying to all of you is there are so many little things

that we can do that add up to losing at least five or ten pounds during the

holidays. Because what I don't want you doing anymore is just grabbing food,

shoving food, cleaning your plate because it's the holidays, eating because everybody

else just happens to be. I don't want you telling yourself any longer that the

little things aren't going to matter because they do. And when you tell yourself

little things don't matter, you don't try it all. In fact, you go way overboard

because of it. And when you're going way overboard, you go from having the potential

to losing 10 pounds to probably gaining five to 10. And I don't want us living in

the extremes. But the little things are what can make a huge difference between

gaining weight and having tons of regret on January 1 or being down 10 pounds and

so proud of yourself. So the truth is that these mistakes,

they aren't happening because you're weak, you don't want it bad enough, or that

it's actually too hard to lose weight during the holidays. They happen because you've

done too many diets that require being perfect with perfect little foods.

It truly is shit and everywhere you look, the bullshit of diet industry is just

stinking up the place. So we got to talk about what's our answer? How do you

actually lose weight during the holidays without being miserable as fuck, without

cutting out all your fun, without having to do endless cooking and shit that you

ain't going to want to do, and without starting on January 1st, desperate and pissed

at yourself?

I just want you to see that there's another way to do this, especially during the

holidays. Because to me, the holidays are the perfect time to practice eating the

foods you love while you lose weight. That way, you stop believing the lies of the

diet industry that cookies, casseroles, and cocktails are you being bad.

They're just part of life. They're There's part of things they're not you're not bad

for having them But if you think you are guess what you lose control around them

You've got to see for yourself That you can enjoy these things and still lose

weight. That's why I love the holidays for weight loss because they give you a

front row seat to your patterns. And this is the most important thing that we have

to do in order to lose weight. We have to start noticing our patterns. So this is

the stuff you wanna pay attention to and write it down if you need to. You will

see during the holidays, exactly when and where you eat,

when you don't even want to. Like the times when you say yes to food because you

don't want to hurt someone's feelings You'll see all the times you say yes to

eating when you're not hungry, but it happens to be free You don't want to miss

out on that Or you'll see all the times you're eating because just everyone else is

doing it around you

And you don't want to be the odd one out. You don't want to have to just sit

there and not eat Because the problem isn't you sitting there not eating? The

problem is, is when you're sitting there, you're probably telling yourself a bunch of

horse shit. Like, I'm not connecting with others. I'm being left out. I'm like,

bitch, you ain't left out. You're at the same fucking table. You just ain't got a

tootsie roll in your mouth. That ain't being left out. That's called not chewing.

Big fucking difference.

So, I want you to see these patterns because they are valuable information and that

is how we lose weight is looking for all the patterns and the reasons why we eat

in a way that is like extra for our body. When you cut out the extra like that,

weight loss becomes easy and you don't have to monkey around with like giving up,

you know, carbs and bullshit like that. You'll get to see for yourself that you can

enjoy these things and start losing weight. And once you see patterns, guess what?

You now know what to work on and what to change. You also, during the holidays,

you get to see where you handle stress with food instead of handling stress with

self -care. You'll be able to see during the holidays where you eat to feel better

instead of taking better care of yourself. You'll see where you're eating because

you're too hard on yourself instead of learning how to talk better to yourself.

You will see where you are trying to do things perfectly and right instead of just

saying It doesn't have to be perfect. Just need to get it done. There are just

some things in life that don't require perfection. And yet we make ourselves do it

and we put ourselves under pressure. And I think one of the most important things

that you learn is you see the pattern of seeing yourself do things that are

probably extraordinary, really loving, makes you an amazing human that people love,

but you're not seeing it yourself. You're doing a lot of self -sacrificing without

even acknowledging how great you are. So I want to tell you a story about this.

'Cause the other day I was coaching a client and she was at a volleyball tournament

with her daughter because her daughter plays competitive volleyball and she was

telling me it's just too hard to lose weight during volleyball season. That doesn't

sound just like the holidays. We all got our glorious time of the year that for

some reason this is the hardest part to lose weight because she was telling me that

when they go to tournaments she never knows if they're going to be there for one

day or three days. She doesn't know where they might be eating because she doesn't

know how long the tournaments are going to go, blotty, blotty, blotty, blah. So she

said, Karen, and she was crying in her car. She just said,

I'm so resentful and mad that I can't lose weight right now. And so I asked her,

well, just why are you resentful? And she said, because I can't eat the way I want

to. And I said, well, tell me how you want to eat. And she said,

I just want to sit on my couch, eat my healthy food, and no one bother me.

And I said, Oh, my God, that is the absolute last thing in the world you want.

And she looked at me like I fucking had flowers growing out my head. And She was

like, "No, I really want to eat like that." And I said, "Okay,

then let's just take your child "out of volleyball, easy fix, easy solution, "and

you get what you want." And she said, "Well, I'm not gonna do with that." And I

mean, she yelled at me. And she was like, "I want this experience for my child.

"It's important to her and I would feel awful if I did that." And that's when I

looked at her and I said, "Now you're telling me and you're telling yourself the

truth. You don't want to eat on that couch. You want to give your daughter the

experience of a lifetime. You actually want to figure out how you can set yourself

up for eating success, no matter what's going on in these tournaments because you're

a mother who wants to give her daughter a childhood, she'll never forget.

And it was in that moment that she started bawling and she said, I never think of

myself that way. I just think it's unfair and that I have to get through this.

And if I thought like you just told me, I would eat so much different on the

weekends. I would plan for them instead of sitting in my car, wishing I was at

home. So I want you to see, there are a lot of reasons that we eat,

and for those of us who struggle to lose weight, the typical diets, they are not

helping us with this stuff. And when you don't get that kind of help, you think

you must be weak. You think you're lacking willpower. We think the holidays are just

in the way that vacations are in the way. Volleyball season is in the way.

The only thing in the way is diets and their stupid fucking antics that are not

ever ever ever required for you to lose all the weight you want. I promise you If

you can lose weight during the busiest, messiest, food filled time of the year,

you'll never ever again doubt yourself the rest of the year. If you can do it

during November and December, I feel 100 % sure you can do it anytime. So instead

of waiting until January to get your shit together, you can start now when it

really matters for your lifelong ability to be able to keep your weight off.

This way on January 1, you're not sitting there bloated and miserable, signing up

for some dumb shit that you know that you will not be able to finish a whole

month of. You're already on a roll. You're already proven to yourself that you can

do it. And that's the gift I want you to give yourself this holiday season.

I want you to give yourself the feeling of being powerful instead of helpless,

proud instead of regretful. I want you to give yourself the gift of eating foods

you love, but in a way, you love the result of it. So let me conclude.

Most women are sitting around thinking that the holidays are the hardest time to

lose weight but I want you to see it's actually the best time because you get to

practice eating foods you love and still lose weight no more cutting out your joy

because you finally see the real reasons that you eat when you don't even want to

like for guilt for stress people pleasing and because if you can lose weight in

November and December with with all the foods around you. Been losing weight in

January and February and every other month, it's gonna feel a hell of a lot

simpler.

The holidays are not your problem. It's just the old diet bullshit that's convinced

you it has to be hard. And when you start small, when you do the shit I tell

you, when you make those doable changes, you stop telling yourself it's all or

nothing. You learn how to stop talking to yourself like an asshole and start talking

to yourself like a friend. You're going to see you no longer have to wait until

January to feel better.

And if you want help, that is exactly why I created the Lose 10 Pounds by New

Years. It's a program. It's eight weeks with me. It's my program designed to show

you how to make those little changes that fit perfectly into the holidays, they fit

perfectly into your life. Even during one of the busiest times of the year,

you will know how to eat, how to enjoy your holidays and still lose weight without

a bunch of miserable, time consuming rules, time you ain't got, time you should be

spending with your family, time you should be enjoying yourself. Because I want you

starting the new year proud instead of regretful. I'm going to say that again.

I want you starting the new year proud instead of regretful. But most of all,

I want you to start on a roll this time, not in some self -imposed hole you dug,

because you thought it was too hard to lose weight during the holidays. Okay, I'll

see you next week, y 'all.