How to Have Your Best Holiday Season Ever Without Eating Your Face Off

The Holiday Season often goes hand in hand with over eating and weight gain.

I used to promise myself that I would not gain any weight during the holidays, and then eventually just give in to the food because I felt completely out of control.

I would go to bed most nights frustrated with myself, and ever morning try again, and end the year 5 pounds up.

And then there was the shame.

I have learned another way, a way to have the best holiday ever and not eat my face off, which means, I don't gain weight.  BOOM

Enjoy!

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Music. Welcome to Modern body, modern life, the podcast for women who want to lose weight permanently, feel in control around food and learn how to stop obsessing about their body and food, a modern way of thinking about your weight, your body and your life includes mindset. I'm body and life coach, Courtney Gray, and each week I'm going to teach you the mindset tools that are necessary for changing the way you eat forever. We will uncover why you're eating when you said you were going to stop, what to do when you're really craving something, and how important it is to decide what you want to believe is possible for you. I believe we can get in the best shape of our lives at any age, a modern body, a modern life, all starts in your mind, and when you learn how to manage that, losing weight permanently becomes so much easier. Welcome to the podcast. Episode 53 Happy Holidays. How to have your best holiday season ever without eating your face off. I mean, come on, how great is the title of this podcast. On this podcast, I'm going to talk about having the best season ever, like the best holiday season, but also the best holiday day. So in the US this week is Thanksgiving. We also have so many other holidays coming up, Christmas, Hanukkah. There's so many different holidays coming up. I'm not going to mention all of it, but I think that the problem a lot of us run into these days is the holiday isn't just the day. We're not just worried about how we're going to eat on Thanksgiving or the Hanukkah celebration. I know I think that's more than one day, but anyways, we're not worried about the day, we're worried about the season, all of the food that's around for the holiday season. And so on the podcast, I'm going to address both, and I'm going to help you have not just eat well this holiday day, but I also want you to have the best holiday ever. It's the combination of the both. I want you to eat well, and I also want you to have an amazing holiday. And I promise you you really can have both. And the reason I said that is, I think for a lot of people, and I think for me, a long time ago, I would have thought, if I have to eat less food and have to eat better than I have in the past, it's not going to be very fun. And so that's why I want you to know you really can't have both. You can have the best holiday season ever and eat better than you've been eating. So let's get started. But first, it's a very, very exciting time here at Courtney Gray coaching. Let me tell you I could talk for three hours about it. But first, let me say there is a bonus podcast episode dropping this Saturday the 30th. So if you are loving the podcast, if you are loving my messaging, and if you resonate with what I'm talking about and about losing weight for the last time, doing it in a lovely way, not having to diet anymore, stopping all the crazy mindset stress, worrying about the number on the scale, all of that, wanting to age well and be strong and be happy, you're going to want to listen to this bonus Podcast, because I'm going to dive into my coaching group program, and so I'm going to really get into what you learn, what to expect, people's results, all of those things, and that's going to be coming on the 30th, on Saturday. But for right now, I just want to share a few tidbits. So open enrollment is next week, Monday, December 2, is when open enrollment officially kicks off for my small group coaching program, and the program starts mid January. So you are going to enroll the first week of December, and then you are going to have an amazing holiday season knowing that you have secured your spot to work with me in my small group coaching program starting mid January. You're going to go through the whole holiday season being like, we're good, we have a plan 2025 is going to be different. You know, you know how January comes around and you're like, this year is going to be different. And then all of a sudden it's July, and you're like, what happened? That's not going to happen this year for you, because you're going to have the opportunity to join me and to work with me every single week and lose weight permanently this time. Enrollment is officially December 2 through the sixth, but my little tidbit of advice for you is to get in on Monday, because space is limited. And when the groups fill, the groups fill, and I don't want you to miss out. Life is too short to keep living in a body you're not happy with, and thinking about food all the time and your body all the time, and telling yourself you're going to do something about and going on another diet, which we know isn't the answer, because it hasn't worked. In the past. So this podcast today is going to help you feel prepared to have the best holiday season ever the last five weeks of the year and feel in control around food and not eat your face off. And you know what else will make you take a deep breath of relief and have an even better holiday season is knowing that you're enrolled in my program and that you're going to fix this area of your life forever, and you'll be supported from mid January through mid April, so like when all of your friends are giving up on their diets, you're going to be killing it, not only losing weight, but you're going to be changing the way you think and eat and move forever. Okay, enough. I'm sure you can tell that I love my program, and I'm really, really excited about you joining me. But if you want to know all the ins and outs that you'll get inside of my modern body, Modern Life Group, coaching program, be on the lookout for that bonus podcast this Saturday. Okay, Onward, onward. Happy Thanksgiving week. If you are in the US, first I want to talk about how I did the holidays the holiday season before I learned how to feel in control around food. And I guess the reason why I named this podcast how to have the best holiday season without eating your face off is because how I did the holiday season before I lost weight permanently and learned how to feel in control around food is I ate my face off. I would be consumed by all of it. I would gain weight between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. Every year, I thought about food all the time, and I didn't work out I would eat anything given to me. So we have lots of friends and lots of lovely neighbors in town, and you know how the holidays are, if you live in a community like that, they bring over trays of cookies, and they bring over peanut brittles, and they mix spice nuts and all these kind of things. And I would just really eat all of it, not at one time, but I just would all day be kind of boop, boop, boop. Be eating all the things I would eat, the things that I didn't even really think tasted that good. I would go to parties, and I'd be eating food that really, if you ask me right now, do I want that? I would say, No. I would drink more than I normally would because I thought it was festive. I thought like I had to join the party, I wouldn't work out as much as I normally did all year. I really love going to the gym, and I love working out, but I wouldn't work out during the holiday season. I had all these excuses, and I would get the fuck it's and I would just decide, You know what, I'm not going to even worry about this till January. And if I think back, I don't know that I thought about it at the time, but if I think back, I was kind of miserable in that space. Of course, I wasn't miserable when I was eating the cookie in that moment, but I was miserable with thinking about it. Because, you know, every night, I've told you, if you've listened to the podcast before, you know I would go to bed every night and my stomach would hurt. I'd be bloated. I would just be regretting, like, Why do you keep doing this to yourself every night I wasn't fitting into my clothes? Well, it was just so frustrating. So if you've been here listening to the podcast with me for a while, you've heard me talk about how one of the reasons we do or don't do things is because of our thoughts. It all starts with our mind. Our thoughts create our feelings, and our feelings create our actions. And when I say actions, that means the things we do or don't do. So when I think back to what I just told you about me eating kind of anything that was delivered to our front door, me eating those things that started with my thoughts and feelings. So what was I thinking in order to be doing the Holiday season like I used to do the holiday season? I think now, first of all, at the time, I didn't know any of these tools, so at the time, I was completely not thinking. I was unaware of it, all of it. I think that's part of the problem. Is I wasn't thinking. I wasn't being mindful at all. So what was I thinking in order to do the holiday season like this? If I could go back and take a little peek inside of my subconscious mind, I think that I had thoughts like this is just what you do during the holiday season. You know, food is part of the fun. Definitely, I thought a thought that many of my clients have thought is, this is the only time of year I'm going to get this food. Have you had that thought? So many of my clients have this thought, which, if we really, really think about that thought, it's just not true. So think about the last time you had that thought. So many people have this thought. I'm imagining maybe you have at one point, if you think about maybe your neighbor makes something amazing during the holidays, maybe you have a relative that makes something that's like their traditional dish at the holidays, and you have this thought like, well, I have to eat it because it's the only time I'm gonna get it. It's not true. You. You could get the recipe and make it yourself in March. Or you could say, Aunt Kathy, I love you so much. Can I reach out to you and can I pay you to make this for me in July? Right? I'm sure she would say, you don't need to pay me. Of course, I'll make it for you. She's going to be flattered. So this thought that this is the only time of year I'm going to get this is actually often quite false. Another thought I think I had, if I could take a peek back into my mind, is at that time, is I don't want to hurt other people's feelings by not eating this thing. And again, that thought was so irrational, because sometimes I would get something from a neighbor, they would say, oh, here we made these cookies Happy Holidays. We love you guys. And I would get these cookies, and they would sit and chat with me for a minute, and then they would leave. And so whether I ate those things or not, they'll never know. They'll never know. But here I'm telling myself, well, I don't want to hurt their feelings. What they'll never know. I could literally dump the whole thing in the trash, which I wouldn't do, but I could. They'll never know, but I would tell myself, I don't want to hurt their feelings. And one of the things I would tell myself, I think, is I have to eat it. If someone brings you a festive cheese ball, you eat it. If you walk into a party and you had decided not to drink, but then one of your girlfriends hands you a festive drink. You drink it. This is kind of how I was living my life, and it was very, kind of victimy, and it was very like, I don't know, kind of shoulders up, like it's just what we do. So how have you done the holidays in the past? And this is one of those moments where if you really want to take advantage of this podcast and not just consume it, I don't want you to just be a consumer. I want you to be a creator, which means you don't just listen to this podcast and go, Gosh, that Courtney's great. I want you to actually create from this podcast. I want you to take a moment and maybe pause it and answer this question for yourself. If you're on a walk, answer it take a minute and think, okay, she asked me, How have I done holidays in the past? Or if you want to go next level, you're going to actually journal on this and write for a minute. How have I done holidays in the past? And tell yourself this story, the story just kind of like I told you the story. And be radically honest with yourself. How have you done holidays in the past? Consider all the things. Consider the way you eat, consider the way you think about things, consider how you move your body, consider your stress level. Consider Are you a people pleaser? Consider do you give yourself excuses, all those things? And ask yourself, why? Why do I think that that's the way I've done holidays in the past? Ask yourself, What have I thought the point to the holidays were in the past? I know for a lot of people, they hold a religious belief that the holidays are Christmas specifically honors the birth of Jesus Christ. But if you look at us as a society. I'm not seeing a lot of celebrating Jesus Christ going on. I'm seeing a lot of food. I'm seeing a lot of food. And I don't know that that's really the point. And so why do you think that is how you have done holidays in the past? And really answer that question, we gain so much awareness when we look back to how we really have done things. I did a private workshop for my Advanced Small group coaching program last night. It was so fun. First, I should just tell you, you might be like advanced group Wait, what's going on? So let me, let me tell you for a moment what's going on. So I have a group coaching program. It's the one that is open for enrollment December 2. That is my small group coaching program. After women go through my small group coaching program, I offer them to join me in an Advanced Small group coaching program. And this started because I had the first group of women working with me, and a lot of them were like, We're loving this work, and we want to keep going. We want to keep losing weight. We want to keep doing this mindset work. We feel like it's changing other areas of our life. It's fun, it's supportive, it's powerful. You're blowing my mind. I don't want to stop. And I'm like, let's keep going. So I created an Advanced Small group coaching program. So if you choose to work with me, you will also get the invitation to do that. It'll it'll be fun. For my Advanced Small group coaching program, I offered them a private workshop last night, and we had so much fun. And one of the things I shared with them in this private workshop I had for them, I created for them, was a study I found in the New England Journal of Medicine, the studies from to the year 2000 and the study found that the average person gained 1.05 pounds from early October to late February. Now, 75% of that gain was occurring between Thanksgiving and January 1. Now we all agreed that we think people gain way more now, like I heard that statistics and I thought there's just. No way that the average is just one. Like, there's just no way. I mean, I'm like, maybe I'm just talking about myself, but all the women, I'm like, do we agree? And we all are like, Yeah, that sounds way. Maybe it's because it's been 24 years since that study was done. But we all decided as a group, we think people gain way more weight than just a pound. In fact, one of the women said she just read a recent statistic that 75% of Americans are overweight. And you know what? That feels more accurate to me. So why am I telling you this? I'm telling you this because this is all in your control. And I know it feels hard, and I know you might feel kind of out of control, that's the whole point of me being here. That's the whole point of me creating my small group coaching program. But there are five weeks left in the year. Where do you want to be? Come January 1, you can decide now where you want to be, and one of the things that's going to help you reach whatever that goal is for January 1 is really deciding what you want to think about the holiday season now. So what do you think about the holiday season? Now? What is the point? Ask yourself that question, your answer might just be kind of automatic, because, for the most part, the way we are living our life, the way we do life, and I'm saying that in quotations really is based on the way we were raised, maybe the family that raised us, maybe the people we went to school with, maybe the teachers. Maybe it was even when you were in college, things really shifted for you, but we were exposed to a way to do life, and that's how we're doing life, the way we think about marriage, the way we think about raising kids, our cultures, our religions, the way we honor death, the way we think about education, all of these things, the way we think about money, the way we think about eating, the way we Think about our body and what the point of the holiday season is all wrapped up in the way we were raised. So you have probably never intentionally chosen what you want to think of the point of the holidays. We just have adopted the beliefs and opinions of others. And I want you to actually during this podcast, go, what do I want to think is the point of this holiday season? I remember long ago, I had a friend that went to Disneyland for like, three days, and when she got back, she was going on and on about how just amazing the trip was. And I was asking her, like, to give me details, and she, I'm not exaggerating, literally, went into what she ate and where she ate, and what she ate places in the park and places after they left the park the whole time, like the whole her whole experience of Disneyland, was what she ate. She talked a little bit about the rides, but you would have thought she didn't even go on rides. It was all about the food. When I think of Disneyland, the food is like a complete afterthought. I think of Disneyland. And first of all, I need you to know I'm not a big Disneyland person, but if I think of Disneyland, I think of Captain EO. What I know that's not even there anymore, but I loved captain I was a huge Michael Jackson fan as a kid. Think of Captain EO. I think of Pirates of the Caribbean. I think of the teacups, I think that's what I think of when I think of Disneyland. But for this friend, all she really was focused on was the food. It's totally not a problem. Unless she wants to eat better and possibly lose weight and get healthy, then she's going to need to radically change what she thinks going to Disneyland is all about and are you like that with the holidays? When you think of the holidays, do you think about the food so many of us do, and that's okay, maybe this is the first time you've ever thought about what you think about the holidays. If, in the past, food is a huge part of the season, you can decide that that's no longer serving you. Now, hear me, friend, I'm not saying don't eat pie. I'm not saying don't eat a cocktail. I'm not saying go on diet. But if you want to not eat your face off, whatever that looks like for you, you're going to have to change what you think about the season. So let me tell you what I think about the season. Let me offer you some thoughts that you can adopt as your own, or maybe they'll inspire you to come up with your own thoughts. For me, the holidays are about connection family, friends and connecting with them. Food is such a small part of the holidays, food is not really the point, especially now that my kids no longer live in my house, and especially now that my parents every year are getting older, it is all about the connection, and because that is my thoughts for not only the holiday season, but for the day, it affects what I do. And. Do during the season. It affects the actions I take and I don't take. So here is my plan, the way I act during the season, because I have this thought that it's all about the connection. When it comes to foods, I eat my favorite foods in moderation, so I do eat them, but I do them in moderation, and I don't waste time with foods I don't like. And you might go, yeah, yeah, me too, but not the way I used to eat, the way I used to do. The holidays, I would eat a lot of food I didn't really like. People would bring over a tray of cookies, and I would eat a cookie that has, like, mint. Like, I'm not a fan of mint at all. It's like one of the only foods I detest mint. I like a natural mint leaf, like the plant, but like any kind of like synthetic candy mint, I can't do it if I put it in my mouth. I literally repel it. But I would eat a cookie that has little mint crumbles on the top. And I would like bear down and eat it crazy on Thanksgiving, I would eat green bean casserole. I don't like green bean casserole. I would go to a party at a friend's house, and I would have those little brownie bites from Costco, what I don't really even like those. I would have cocktails handed to me that I really didn't want to drink. I would have part of the turkey that I didn't really like. I would have like the white meat. And I know the white meat is supposedly technically healthier, but I spend my days being really healthy and really eating the best cuts of meat and all that. On Thanksgiving, I now have the meat that I want. I like the dark meat. On Thanksgiving, I would have some fruit salads that I really don't like. My mom makes this fruit salad every year, and every year I would eat it, even though I really don't like it. It has marshmallows in it, and I really don't like marshmallows now, my kids, my husband, everyone else loves this salad. That's probably part of the problem. Everyone loves it. So I would just be like, This is what we do. So I don't do that anymore. When I eat something on the holidays and during the holiday season, it's because I like it. Some toffee with with chocolate over it. I'll take some some cheesecake that my friend makes homemade here in Chico. Yes, please. But pumpkin pie, no, I don't eat that anymore. I don't like it. So I eat my favorite foods in moderation, and I don't waste time with foods I don't like. I intermittent fast a few times a week, I will focus on portion control. Really watch my portions, because I'm going to be eating more of the delicious foods that I normally wouldn't eat. So I really watch my portion control. I was just telling my one of my clients, the other day that on Thanksgiving, I am in charge of dessert. I'm bringing a few things, but I'm in charge of dessert I have. So I just said, my friend makes these amazing cheesecakes. And I think this year I ordered some kind of marble, marble cranberry. I don't even remember it sounded amazing. I'm like, Yes, please. So I ordered a cheesecake to support his business and to support my taste Bucha. And I'm also bringing bread pudding. I have the most amazing sourdough bread pudding recipe. Email me if you want the recipe. I'm happy to share it. It's amazing. There's a little cayenne pepper in it. It's amazing. And I'll tell you something. On Thanksgiving evening, I will have a slice of cheesecake and bread pudding. I'm doing both, but I will watch my portions that day so I can accommodate both. On Thanksgiving, I'm not going to eat Brie cheese. My family. I don't know what it is about Brie cheese, but it's almost like, if your last name is gray, you like Brie cheese? I've decided I don't love it anymore. I mean, I kind of love it, but my body doesn't love it. My body doesn't love cheese, and so I'm not doing the brie cheese now. My sister, my little sister, makes an amazing deviled egg. I'm gonna have one, and I'm gonna kind of save myself for these two desserts that I love so much. So I'm gonna focus on portion control. I'm not eating crappy candy or food I don't want. I'm gonna save myself for the food that I love a lot of times it's food that I is homemade. I'm not drinking this year, even if it seems festive. If I go to a holiday party this year, I'm not doing it, and I'm going to continue to work out really hard. I'm loving working out hard right now. And years past, I would stop working out, and then my body would start to hurt. This didn't happen when I was younger, but as I get older, I feel like when I'm not working out, my body kind of hurts. So I'm going to continue working out hard. But let me get specific. On Thanksgiving Day, I'm going to focus on connecting. I am going to sit at the table as we all eat, and I am going to specifically ask questions to the people around the table that I want to connect with that day, I am going to be all over my kids, physically. They're going to get exhausted with me, especially my youngest, because he's out of town now, I told him already I'm going to wear him wear him like a fucking backpack. I'm, in fact, what's more realistic, he's gonna wear me like a fucking backpack. I can't wait to get my hands on my kids, and I'm just gonna love on them all day. So excited. This year, my son's girlfriend is coming to Thanksgiving. I'm just so excited, and I am gonna connect with all of them. It's. That is the point. And I'll tell you one other thing that I'm really excited about. This is a total tangent, and I'm excited, and I'll tell you, because don't tell because my family does not listen to this podcast. But I have a bunch of these things called conversation cubes. I don't know if you've ever heard of these conversation cubes. You can buy them online. They're pretty great. And they have, like, conversation cubes for couples, conversation cubes for kids. We when the kids were little, I bought these conversation cubes for kids, and during dinner some nights, we would ask questions. So I would pull a card from this. It's just like, basically a a clear plastic box, and it has all these little cards in it. And I would pull one, and it would be like, if you could be any animal, what animal would you be? And then it was like, if you could have any superpower, superhero power, what power would you be? And we would laugh, and it just kind of creates conversation clearly. So I have, I have created my own conversation cube for this year at Thanksgiving. I'm calling it Courtney's conversation cube, and I have gone online, and I've come up with some of the questions myself, but I've gone on online, and I've created like, 100 questions that are so good, and I'm gonna present Courtney's conversation cube to my mom as a gift, a hostess gift on Thanksgiving, and she's gonna love it. We are gonna love it. We are gonna spend hours answering all these questions, going around the table and laughing our butts off, and going on tangents and all the things that is the point. Now I'm going to start crying. You know, I do it, you know how I am, because someday my parents are going to be gone, and so it's not about the food on Thanksgiving. It's about connecting with them. We don't know what the future holds, right? It's about the connection with the people that we love. That is the point of all of it. And if you're religious, it's about connecting to your god or your universal energy. And I'll tell you what else it is for me, it's about connecting to me. And one of the ways I connect to me is I'm radically honest with what I want for myself. And one of the things I want for myself is I don't want to feel like crap on Thanksgiving night. I don't want to have regret the next day. I don't want to end the year not happy in my body. I want to connect. I want to feel good, and I want to connect with what I truly desire. So focus on connecting. That will really help you take the focus off the food this holiday season. One of the reasons people eat their face off is not only because there is even more food around, and we make a lot of excuses, and people just think it's what you do, but also because of stress. See if this sounds familiar now that it's the holidays, in addition to the fact that you always have a huge to do list, you have an even bigger to do list, you stress about getting all of it done. You spin about it like you're constantly thinking about it. You're a little resentful, like you're resentful to certain people, because you feel like you have to do all of it. You're exhausted with the thought of it. And in the end, even though that's how you're doing the holidays, in the end, you end up getting it all done. Of course you do, because you're fucking amazing, except for the fact that you're causing yourself a lot of stress by the way you're thinking about the season and the way you're thinking about your to do list. And when you're not managing your mind and you're feeling stressed, eating is the best way to get out of that stress. For that moment when you eat that cake or you drink that old fashioned, I love an old fashioned. I'm gonna miss old fashions this year. For that moment you're not stressed because it takes it away. And so if you resonate with that, if you feel like you have a huge to do list, and you think like, Oh, it's so much. It's so much. I remember for years telling my husband during the Christmas holiday season, I remember telling him, I just want this to be over. How sad is that? How sad is that? That I used to feel that way. I didn't know what I didn't know. Back to what else I'm going to do to make this season an amazing season. I'm not going to do the things I don't want to do, and I'm not going to be stressed. Is it possible some of that to do list doesn't have to be done? I remember a few years ago, I decided not to do Christmas cards. Oh, my God, the freedom. I've decided this year, one of the things I'm adding on to make this an amazing holiday season is I'm not going to stress about gifts anymore. Every year, there are certain people on my list that I stress about. I stress about my buying my nieces gifts because I don't have girls, and even though I feel like I know my nieces pretty well, and I feel like I know fashion pretty well, I just feel like, what if they don't like it, what if they don't like it? And I spend two whole months not buying them something, stressing out that I'm gonna get it wrong. And I just stress, stress, stress, stress. And then in the end, the week before Christmas, when it's, you know, so busy in the stores, i. Go to tillies, and I buy them something, I get it done, and I have wasted so much damn energy on stressing about something that I end up doing anyways. And here's the thing too. I tell my nieces, I picked this out for you because it looked like you and I thought you loved it. And I asked the girl who worked there if she thought you'd love it, and she thought you would. And if you don't love it, here's the gift receipt. I love you. You've now got $80 at Tillys. So you know what I did? I did it three weeks ago. I went to Tillys. I bought something. I made sure, even though I was buying it so early, that my nieces could return it. If they didn't like it, then they'd have a store credit. And I hope they love it. And I kind of don't care. I kind of don't care. I'm not going to stress about it. I'm not going to stress. What about what a 17 year old and 19 year old think of my gift because I bought it for them with love, and it's not about the gift anyways. So I'm not stressing about gifts anymore. And you know what? You can do it too. Permission, granted. I don't do Christmas cards. I don't stress about gifts anymore. My husband and I don't do gifts. I'm not going to every party I'm invited to. I'm not putting up Christmas lights on my house, even though my neighborhood, almost everyone lights their house up, and God bless them. I love it, but I'm not doing it. It's too much effort for me. My house on the inside is decorated. My neighbors, if they want to see some holiday cheer. They should come over. I'm not taking every person I know a plate of handmade cookies, and it's all going to be fine. I'm deciding not to stress. I'm deciding that I'm going to do what I'm going to do, and I'm not going to stress about it, and I'm going to complete it and have an amazing holiday season, the way you think about this holiday season and how it's supposed to be done, will determine what you do and what you don't do, because it's going to determine how you feel, and the way we feel dictates what we do and what we don't do. And that's also it dictates how you eat. You can decide right now that you're going to have the best holiday ever and not gain weight. In fact, if you enroll December 2 into my January coaching program, you get a video that offers you some optional pre work, and this optional pre work is going to help you start losing weight right away. If you choose to, some people don't want to, some people want to enroll and just be like, I'm good and feel the relief of knowing they've got a plan. Totally fine. But if you're like me, when I pay money for something, I'm like, let's go. And there's a part of me that wants to start. So if that's you, you can start right away. You could literally roll into the first call with me in January having already lost weight. How good would that feel? If you loved this podcast, I have a free master class on December 2. It kicks off enrollment, and I'm going to be diving deeper into all of this holiday stuff, diving deeper into why we eat, the way we eat, how to feel in control around food, how when you understand how to manage your mind, you really can lose weight for the last time. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving if you're in the US, if you're not in the US, I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and I hope you do it differently this year. Have a great tuesday if you are ready to lose weight and keep it off permanently and feel confident and at peace around food. I invite you to head to Courtney Gray coaching.com to learn about how to work with me. I work with women privately, one on one, and I also offer small group coaching. There is a link to my website in the show notes you.