Episode 84: 5 Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain

In this episode, we discuss practical tips to avoid holiday weight gain, go over the discuss the common pitfalls of holiday overeating, and provide five actionable tips to maintain your health and fitness during the holiday season.  Tune in for gift suggestions to help you enjoy the holidays without compromising your health goals.

00:00 Introduction
02:42 Sobering Holiday Weight Gain Statistics
05:05 Top 5 Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
09:42 Keep Working Out During the Holidays
12:28 Start Your Day with Protein
14:36 Get Back on Track After Holiday Meals
17:51 Stay Active with Outdoor Activities
19:34 Life Coaching Tips for the Holidays
21:09 Post-Holiday Fitness Advice
23:20 Favorite Thanksgiving Foods
25:58 Gratitude and Reflections

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Hello, as we enter the holiday season, we are replaying a popular episode from a few years back with tips to avoid. Holiday weight gain as we enter the holiday season with Thanksgiving. So take all the sudden, hopefully you can find some helpful tips. And we wish you a very happy Thanksgiving next week. Welcome to the boost your metabolism after age 30 podcast. I'm Joe and I'm Alison, and we're your co hosts and the founders of Couture Fitness and Lifestyle Coaching. We're on a quest to help women design lives they love and bodies they adore. We were fed up with the dieting industry and decided to create something different. We're starting a calories up revolution where women are nourished, their metabolisms are healed and their bodies and brains start working for them in the battle against weight loss. If you feel like your metabolism is wrecked and you want to lose weight once and for all, you are in the right place. Welcome everyone today. You've got me, Allison and Joe here, and we are going to talk about. Five tips for not getting stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey this holiday season. So before we get into that, I want to talk about what's going on with us at Couture Fitness. We've got a couple of different things in the works. We are currently enrolling people for the next session of our metabolic makeover program, which is our one on one coaching program. So with that program, you will get a customized fitness and nutrition plan. You will get weekly check ins with a personal coach. We also have multiple calls each week that you can call into and ask questions. And basically that's where we will just be with you every step of the way. We will take all of the guesswork out of what you need to do to get in, in your best shape. We also have a new course that we just launched and you can listen to the, a previous podcast and learn a little bit more about the details of that, but it is called Master Your Metabolism. It is a self paced course. So if you wanted to maybe dip your toe into kind of working with us at a lower price point, this might be the way to get started. It's just, like I said, it's a self paced online course. If you, if you like it and then you want to still work with us in our one on one coaching program, you can apply the money that you spent on that online course towards our one on one coaching program. If you decide you want to transition to that. So two different options now to, to work with us. And then finally, if you like the podcast and you've been listening and you like the information that we're sharing, we would love if you would leave us a five star review that really helps others find us and find the type of information that we're putting out there. So let's get into the real content of this. Joe, do you want to talk about some of the sad statistics about weight gain over the holidays? Yeah, it's pretty sobering. Actually. I heard this on a different podcast, so I have not independently verified this, but I've heard that the typical person can gain anywhere from like two pounds during the hollow at day season up to 12 pounds, I think eight to 10 to 12 pounds. Maybe like a little above average, but, but not out of the norm. And the problem is, is that even if you just gain 1 to 2 pounds, if it does not come off, if that weight does not come off after the holidays, you know, unless you're doing something very intentionally, it typically does not come off after the holidays. This is really how the weight can creep on. And, you know, after 5 or 10 years of this, we can find ourselves. pretty overweight. So there's a lot going on that leads to this weight gain. There's going to probably be some increased caloric consumption on account of the holiday celebrations. And then the other big component here is decreased activity. Some people have the mentality of why bother going to the gym during the holidays because I'm just going to eat my way through the holidays. I'll get started in January. We don't recommend doing that. Some people, you know, are so stressed out by the holidays. They feel like they don't have the time to go to the gym. And then the reality of depending on where you live, there's less daylight. It's getting colder. It's hard. We're, we're just less active on account of the season change. I think if you were under eating or yoga dieting before the holiday season hit, maybe you were doing something, you know, you were going to really put things into shape. And you, you did something like very restrictive, like keto. Or fasted a bunch before the holiday season. And then you abandon that and go into full fledged holiday eating mode, but your metabolism had adapted to low calories from doing something very restrictive before I would say, wow, what a perfect storm for packing on the pounds. So like I said, honestly, this is how people gain weight probably as they age. And after five to 10 years of this, you know, holiday weight gain can find themselves 30 to 50 pounds heavier than they want to be. It's sad how easily that can happen and how, you know, just a few, you know, a few bad months each year can cumulatively can do that. It's very depressing. You have good news for us. I, yes, we have some good news, so it does not have to be that way. And today we're going to share our top 5 tips for getting through the holidays without gaining extra weight. So, Joe, do you want to start us off with the 1st 1? Yes, so this first tip is kind of mindset. He also very practical, but you just have to remember that Thanksgiving, Christmas, the Jewish holidays, you know, depending on what you celebrate New Year's Eve at most, we're talking about 3 to 5 days. And do not use those three to five days as an excuse to eat your way through the two months of the holiday season. Yes, we absolutely want you to enjoy those holiday meals and those special days, but it's no reason to eat all the high fat, high carb, you know, holiday treats that come along with the holiday season. You know, again, we want you to enjoy those few days that really are special, but it's not an excuse to like run through Starbucks every morning and get a Pumpkin spice latte or a peppermint mocha to kick your day off. And so even if you enjoy yourself, like on those holidays, the 3 to 5 days I mentioned that should not result in much weight gain. It's, it would be very, very hard. It's really, you know, The old adage is that it's what, 3, 500 calories makes up a pound. So it would, you know, it would be really, really hard to eat something like 10, 000 calories in a day. So you really can't gain all that much weight from one day of overeating, but two to three months of continually overeating, that's really bad. And it could really wreak some havoc. So my best advice is on the special days. You know, Thanksgiving day, you know, whatever day you're celebrating, just eat until you are satiated, follow something that we call the hunger scale where, you know, you 10 would be like, the most full you've ever been. 1 would be starving, like, maybe eat to like, a 5 or a 6, you can still enjoy all your favorite things, but you don't need to go back for like, 3rd and 4th helpings and get to the point that you're like, at the 10 on the, on that scale. So there truly is no reason to stop yourself like the Thanksgiving turkey. And we. You know, if you have done that, you know, it's not all that enjoyable. And my, my biggest thing is that if you do that, my, my biggest concern is not the weight that you will gain from one day of eating like that. It's that it will lead to the terrible all or nothing thinking. And the next morning you'll wake up and say, well, I've blown it. So might as well keep on going really, really recommend. Like I said, enjoying that day, blow your calories on the things that really matter. Like your family's 100 year old recipe for stuffing, or maybe the homemade pumpkin pie or this exquisite wine that's perfectly paired with your meal, but don't just eat mindlessly on chips, pumpkin spice lattes. Miller Lite white cloth junk food that you can basically eat on any given day. We do have a blog post that talks about this kind of like what may be the standard American Thanksgiving day looks like. And then what a Thanksgiving day looks like with intentional eating. But what I'm really concerned about in terms of like, you know, mindset is just that all or nothing thinking. And that is like kind of this Mentality I've been restricting the rest of the year or, you know, done something weird, but I'm not going to during the holidays. And so it just becomes this totally no holds barred approach from Thanksgiving through January 1st. Again, go check out that blog post and you can just kind of see the difference in the two approaches. Yeah, and I would just add like, I don't think anybody really feels good when they eat to that 10 on the whatever the, the 10 or the one on the hunger scale, whatever means you're super stuffed. That's a 10 or a one. I don't think anybody feels good when they do that. I don't think anybody really wants to get to the point where they've eaten so much that they can't get up off the couch and move. That's just not a good feeling. I've been there. And you just feel gross. So, you know, get to the five or the six and feel satisfied, but not stuffed. And going back to your, the 10, 000 calorie thing, I remember like five or 10 years ago in the bodybuilding world, there was, it was a popular thing to do this 10, 000 calorie challenge. I don't know if you ever saw those Joe, follow these Instagram accounts and these, or these YouTube accounts and these bodybuilders who were like in really amazing shape would do this. 10, 000 calorie day challenge. And most of them couldn't even come close because they would just feel like they were going to puke probably like four or 5, 000 calories into their day. I can't even imagine eating 10, 000 calories. I guess Michael Phelps does it, but you know, he's a superhuman. Right. Exactly. Okay. I think you have the next step for us. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So my next step is just to keep working out. So there's no reason to skip the gym over the holidays. Now, I'm not saying you should be getting up and going to the gym on Christmas morning, or you should. You know, be skipping time with your family on Thanksgiving to go to the gym. That is not what I'm saying. You can take those days off, but all of the days around there, don't get out of your normal routine. I think you can use this as a time to really hit it hard with the weights and make some really big improvements to your physique. So I don't mean, you know, hitting it hard by doing hours of cardio, but I mean, really starting to go maybe heavier with your weights and putting on more weight. Some muscle and maybe being really strategic about it. Maybe you really want to get stronger in your upper body. So really focusing on things like shoulder presses, pull ups, things that are really going to build some good muscle there. That's just going to pay dividends for the rest of the year. Any muscle you can add. Is just going to help you out in the long run. And I would also add, you know, if you think, oh, I'm going to go for this long run on Thanksgiving day or Christmas Eve or something, you're probably not burning nearly as many calories as you think. It's really hard. I mean, you know, if you want to have a glass of wine and a sugar cookie, let's just say that's 400 calories. It's going to take you a, A long time to burn off those 400 calories. So I think it's really healthy to get out of the mindset of swapping cardio for eating extra food. I would just completely get out of that, that way of thinking. Don't think, Oh, I'm going to eat this extra cookie because I ran today. I think that can be really harmful. So use this time to really just focus on maybe putting on some muscle and hitting the weights hard, not the cardio hard. Yeah, I agree. I mean, when I do cardio, I do like orange theory fitness and I know I burn. Well, this isn't even accurate. It's just what the, you know, it's probably not truly what I burn is probably a little less than that, but the heart rate monitor and everything says that I usually burn between 400 and 400, 450 calories in an hour long orange theory class. And you're working hard in that class. I mean, Lots of very, very high intensity cardio, but truly like a couple of glasses of wine and an extra piece of dessert would totally erase that calorie burn. So you really can't out exercise. your diet. And that can be also another trap is you think that you are burning all these calories doing all this cardio so you can eat with impunity that usually backfires and you're eating a lot more than you're compensating for through exercise. So. Not a good strategy. Yeah. And we won't get into this in more detail. We talk about this in other podcasts, but you're, especially if you're doing cardio often, your body has probably gotten so efficient that you might be burning half of what you think you burn because your body has gotten so used to doing cardio. You've gotten really efficient with it. So, okay. Next tip, start your days with protein. This can be a total game changer to where you are not going to roll into a holiday meal starving and ready to eat everything in sight. So what you eat for the first meal of the day really primes your blood sugar for the day. So you definitely want to start off with some good protein. This is true every day, honestly, but really, really important on these holiday days when you know you're going to be going into like basically this endless buffet of food later in the day. So I would start with some, some sort of eggs. That's my personal favorite. You could also do Greek yogurt or a protein shake, just something that's going to stabilize your blood sugar, fill you up and make you less likely to overeat throughout the rest of the day. A terrible strategy is, oh, well, I know I'm going to eat so much at Thanksgiving that I'm just not going to eat the rest of the day. That is probably going to set you up to eat everything in sight at that Thanksgiving meal. Yeah, I think the other thing that can happen is that, you know, especially if you're a family, you know, they have some special, it's like you kick off the day with like cinnamon rolls and maybe, or you, I'm probably, it sounds like I'm really hating on pumpkin spice lattes. I just dropped my son off at school and he talked me into taking him to Starbucks beforehand and he got one. It was tasted so terrible and was so sweet. I almost gagged. I had a drink of it and it was. Terrible. So not totally hating on pumpkin spice lattes, but I think they're pretty awful and loaded with sugar. But if you started your day with like, you know, a cinnamon roll and a pumpkin spice latte, I mean, it's just loaded with sugar and carbs, no protein, and it's not going to be very satiating. Well, it might. Fill you up, but just not really how you want to start the day. We do also, you know, we'll, we'll tag this in the show notes. We also do have a blog post that gives some very protein packed Christmas casserole recipes was meant for, you know, the morning of Christmas, but you could use those on Thanksgiving morning too. If we have family in town and you need to make a big yummy breakfast, but those will fill you up with protein and get you started on a good path on those holidays. So I think I'm covering the next one. So our fourth tip is we don't want you to like diet on Thanksgiving day. So no need to track, you know, be super obsessive or neurotic about what you're eating on Thanksgiving day, but get right back on track with your habits the very next day. I think it's the getting off track that, you know, and then just staying off track that leads to the all or nothing thinking. And then, you know, after a few days, you know, Of being very unintentional, you think you have ruined everything. And so you throw totally throw the talent. That's what leads to the 2 to 3 months of, you know, just kind of chronic overeating. So, you know, on Thanksgiving day on Christmas day, we really recommend you. You follow that old adage, do the best you can with what you've got, wherever you can enjoy the day, eat your favorite foods. You know, there's no, if you are, most of our clients track macros, we don't tell them to even track macros that day, unless you want to, I would say, if you do just do it out of curiosity. So you can just see how honestly, like you said, it's, it's very hard to eat, you know, It depends, depending on what you're eating. I mean, if you're eating a bunch of junk food, you can very quickly get to 3 or 4, 000 calories. But if you're eating protein and vegetables and things like that, it's very, very hard to, you know, hit that high calorie threshold. So you might track or something out of curiosity, but I want, what I want you to avoid is thinking that you've like, you know, freaking out because you feel like you've totally blown it on Thanksgiving day and then use that. As an excuse to keep on eating from Black Friday, Friday through New Year's Day. But what we want to stay away from is both extremes, like no need to be neurotic. Bring your Tupperware full of your own diet friendly food to Thanksgiving. That's not necessary. But also, you know, there's no need to be belly up to the Thanksgiving buffet all day long, mindlessly stuffing your face. Both extremes lead to very, very bad results. So let's just I guess this tip would be moderation. Enjoy yourself on Thanksgiving day, but get right back to your old habits. The very next day. Yeah, I don't have a lot to add to that one. The other thing I used to hear years ago is don't like congregate right by the food. Like, I know it's really common on Thanksgiving for like people to hang out in the kitchen and there's just like platters of food that you can easily just grab and nibble on. You know, constantly try not to stay in there. Try to stand somewhere where you actually have to, like, get up and walk over to the food. Don't just stand right over the food because you can mindlessly eat, you know, hundreds of calories if you're just standing over the food. Yeah, I think another tip that you could or a trick that you could use there is like, you know, limit yourself to 1 plate of food. No, 1 is going to be in danger of starving on Thanksgiving day. So, you know, just one plate and then you can kind of be done and you'll get plenty of food that way. And like, you know, fill that plate with your favorites, let's not restrict on things we really love, but there's just no reason to go crazy because it does, it's not comfortable just to eat all that food. Like I said, I'm not so much worried about what that's going to do to you on Thanksgiving day in terms of weight gain. My real concern is when you wake up the next day and you have that, that thought runs through your head. I've really blown it. Might as well keep on going. Yum. Okay. So my final tip is to take a hike. So similar to our advice about not skipping the gym, you just want to keep moving throughout this time of year and walking, especially if you can get outside, it's going to do a lot for your stress level and your mental health as well, as well as keep, you know, the holiday pounds at bay. So yes, it's getting colder outside. So make sure you have a good coat, good shoes, gloves, and hat, but try to just get outside and take a walk. I mean, if it's above, you know, 25 degrees, you can bundle up and go outside and it can, it can feel really good to get out there in the brisk air. Sometimes. So make it a goal to do something outside of your comfort zone every day. Like maybe going for a walk when it's cold outside is out of your comfort zone. So try to do that. And like I said, it's, it's going to help, you know, keep your weight gain at bay, but it's also going to help with seasonal depression. And we don't get a lot of sunlight typically in the winter. So just getting outside and getting that sunshine on you will help a lot with your mood. I know before, you know, we had our kids, we would always do Thanksgiving at my aunt's house. And one thing that my mom and several of my aunts would often do like after we ate our Thanksgiving lunches, we would just go for a walk in their neighborhood. And it not only did it feel good, but it also kind of made me feel Not overeat at lunch because I knew I was going to be going for a, you know, 30 to 60 minute walk afterwards and I didn't want to be super stuffed. So maybe make a tradition where you do something active with your family on Thanksgiving. Even I know of people who've done like an annual, like a family flag football game, which I think sounds super cool. Or even just going for a walk or just doing something active. I think that will, that could be a really fun and healthy new tradition. Yeah. Okay. So what does the life coach have to say about getting through the holidays without weight gain? How would you advise somebody who you were life coaching? Well, number one would be, you have to be very, very onto your brain and onto your mind to playing tricks on you so that you stay out of that all or nothing thinking. And like, just like I said before, you know, you just have to keep telling yourself like, yes, it's the holiday season. There are lots of things to enjoy, but. From an eating perspective, it's just a few days, and there's no reason a few days should make you gain 10 or 12 pounds of weight. And there is just no reason to, like, you know, abandon all of your healthy habits for the holidays. It really is a matter of mind management and, you know, And just, you know, getting out of that all or nothing thinking. My second thing I would tell clients that I was live coaching is begin with the end in mind. Think about how you want to wake up on January 1st, like fast forward in your brain to January 1st. How do you want to say the holidays went? I think very people. Few people would want to say they abandoned all their discipline and intention and just totally abandoned if they were working out their workouts and, you know, over a, every single day on really things that are not that meaningful. So, decide how you want the holidays to go and give yourself the gift of integrity this holiday season by just doing what you want to do in terms of, you know, again, how you want to feel when you wake up on January, January 1st and doing what you say you will do. So those are my top two sort of life coaching tips. Okay. Now, Alison, what do you, let's talk about what happens when January 1st rolls around, what do you, what would your, be your best advice? Like you've gotten through the holidays and January 1st hits, and let's say you've gained, you know, three or four pounds over through the holiday season. Yeah. So if you've, you know, if you've gained a couple of pounds, no big deal, right? I would say you want to make sure you don't do anything too extreme. If you do want to, you know, embark on a fitness or a fat loss journey come January 1, skip the fad diets. You want to make sure you do this in just a structured and healthy way without going to extremes. So with our, all of our programs, we're going to help all of our clients do just that. You know, we will be telling them. Nutrition guidelines, workout guidelines. It will not be anything extreme. It will not be cut out carbs, eat 1200 calories a day, run for five miles every day, nothing like that. You just want to take it nice and slow and steady because that's what's going to give you that sustainable and healthy fat loss that you can maintain honestly for the rest of your life. So that's what I would say. Don't do anything extreme. I would say, you know, if you want to. Learn a healthy approach. Put our program on your holiday wishlist. Yep, I agree. Yeah, I think, you know, something you pointed out, like, if you gain a few pounds over the holidays, and I think I, you might actually want to expect that in terms of like, it is colder. We are less active just naturally when it's so cold. There is going to be extra calories, but. You don't want to like roll into January 2nd, totally desperate and panicked. That's what leads to the fad dieting. That's what leads to the yo yo dieting. Study shows that every time you yo yo diet or do one of these crazy fad diets, you actually, and then, you know, stop, you actually add fat cells to your body and it becomes harder and harder and harder. The next time you diet to actually lose any weight. So, Don't panic. We and several other coaches kind of in our space can help you through a weight loss journey, but no need to panic or get desperate. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Let's talk about our favorite Thanksgiving foods because we like to eat just as much as anybody. So Joe, what's your, what are some of your favorite Thanksgiving foods that you plan to indulge in? So I think that we are hosting like my husband and I will be hosting Thanksgiving this year. My mother in law's coming in town from Thanksgiving and my mother had an accident a few months ago. She tore her quadriceps tendon. So I don't think she'll be doing much cooking that day. So I think we'll be hosting. I like to keep Thanksgiving pretty simple. We don't do like the green bean casserole or the sweet potatoes with marshmallows, that kind of thing. But I really do. Enjoy my family's recipe for stuffing so I'll be enjoying that and then my mother in law has a very different but really amazing pumpkin pie is called pumpkin chiffon pie has like a coconut crust and whipped pumpkin filling. So I plan to make those things and then just, you know, probably some fresh green beans, you know, mashed potatoes, a salad, just kind of what you would typically expect on Thanksgiving day. How about you? Yeah, that all sounds really good. And I forgot about stuffing. So my mother in law makes the stuffing. It's got like sausage and mushrooms and, you know, bread and stuff too in it. And it is so amazing. So that is one thing I will definitely be having. I love Turkey. I'll have Turkey, which I wouldn't call that an indulgence, but I'm excited about it. And then sweet potato casserole is probably my like true indulgence. There is. There is nothing healthy about sweet potato casserole except for the sweet potatoes. It's basically a giant cookie, honestly, which is why I love it so much. So I will be having some of that. I will say that is a food that is super duper easy to overeat. And so I plan to eat it as slow as I possibly can and savor it because otherwise I will eat a serving and I'll want to go back for another serving. So my goal is to eat it really slowly so it feels like I'm eating a ton of it. Yeah. Okay. So what, what's the Thanksgiving, how are the sweet potatoes prepared in your tradition? Well, just a total like casserole. So it's, and I've made it before too. So it's like, you know, sweet potatoes that are baked and then mixed up so that they're kind of just like pureed. And then there's like tons of butter, tons of sugar in there. And the crust, which is like the nuts and the brown sugar on top. So good. Nothing, like I said, nothing healthy about this, but it's delicious. Yeah, I think my sister in law makes something like that and it is really good. It's like a almost like pecan pie or something. Yeah. Yeah. And I love pecan pie. And I think that's another reason why I love the sweet potato casserole. Yeah. So, the other thing I thought that we could talk about is what we're grateful for this year. You know, it is very easy to focus on the food during the holidays, but really what makes the holiday so special is, you know, it's a time for reflection and. Hopefully for spending time with people we love and thinking about what we want in the future. So one tradition my family has is we go around the table each year and say what we're grateful for. So what about you this year? So, oh gosh, of course, lots of things. And this is super cliche, but of course, I'm going to say family. We're very lucky that we're going to, we get, we get to see both of our families for every single holiday. So we'll have my husband's family. We'll be with them on Thanksgiving and then we'll go, my family's A decent drive away from us. It's two and a half hour drive. So we'll go and see them after Thanksgiving. And I just love watching the girls, you know, play with their cousins and they love their grandparents. And I mean, just grateful that, that we get to very pretty easily be with each of our families for every holiday. And my kids are at such fun ages right now. They're, my girls are 11, nine and three, and the three year old Emerging from the terrible threes. So she is super cute and funny and really, really fun and really starting to get into holidays, which makes them even more fun. So that's what I'm going to go with. What about you? She's super cute. Yeah. I, my, my parents are older and my husband's mother, she just celebrated her 90th birthday. So I'm really grateful that my kids. You know that they can still spend time with them. My parents are relatively healthy considering their age, but we can, you know, we're not going to a retirement home to visit any of them. And they're both in their home still and and mostly living like the life that they want. And my kids are in high school, but they, you know, they still get to. Be with their grandparents and celebrate that. So really thankful for that. But I'm also I'm, I know you'll have some thoughts on this too. I'm really thankful for this business. And I don't know what I thought, you know, we would get out of this or, you know, what we would experience when we started this business, but it has so It is so fulfilling to me. It is so creative to me and I, our clients are amazing. And I think just hearing, you know, the changes, just the joy, that feeling healthy and feeling good in your body and feeling like you are getting healthy. When I hear clients express that and how. Meaningful that is to them and a quality of life enhancer. That is to them. That just it makes it all worth it. All the juggling that we have to do to be able to have this business. It makes it all the social media. We do. We don't love social media. It's super annoying, but it does make it totally worth it. Just to know that getting healthy, helping people get on the right track with nutrition and exercise. At the end of the day, yes, it might help you lose weight, but it really does seem to improve their quality of life. So I'm super grateful for that. Yeah, I mean, I would agree. And exactly what you said just hearing how when people say, like, we've changed their lives. I mean, it's. Absolutely amazing. I also love, you know, we get a lot of clients who will just rave about their personal coach. We have some absolutely amazing coaches and I think they're, you know, they probably feel the same way that they, they get a lot out of, you know, helping others by coaching them. So yeah, I'm certainly grateful for this business that I never knew would ever grow to what it is when we started, but it's, it's filled a void that I didn't even know that I had. Like I never. In my life thought I I've wanted to be an entrepreneur. That was just not a goal that I ever had for myself. And once we started it, it was so, so much fun building the business. And I don't consider myself a super creative person, but it does give me a really, a different type of creative outlet, which I love. So I would agree. I am also very grateful for our awesome little business. Yeah. And I mean, yeah, all the lessons that we've learned building a business, but that's probably for another podcast. So yeah. Anyway. Okay. Well, that's what we have for you today on making it through Thanksgiving without stuffing yourself like the Thanksgiving turkey. We are grateful for you as a listener and we wish all of you the happiest Thanksgiving and holiday season. That's all we've got for today. 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