TAKING ACTION: ✅ Does your family celebrate the New Year in a big way? Or are you in bed at your regular time? Let’s wrap up the week by participating in the comments below today! Coming up next: the New Year. 🎉 We’ve almost made it through the holiday season, friends; however, the New Year is a holiday that many of you celebrate—and celebrate big! Some of us our in our pajamas by 9:00 PM on NYE, but some of us like to ring in the New Year! Even if food choices aren’t as big a struggle on this particular holiday, there is another topic we need to discuss because it’s often consumed on New Year’s Eve— And that’s alcohol. 🥂 If you plan to have a few cocktails over the next few days, it’s best to plan for them ahead of time. Tracking alcohol is a little different than tracking your macros, and it’s important to know that you can’t simply rely on the label. If you need more information about how to track alcohol, check out this in-depth article below. The article also contains a few alcohol cheat sheets for your benefit! 🥂 How To Track Alcohol Macros | Lauren Fit Foodie

TAKING ACTION: ✅ Did you know the week between Christmas and New Year’s is called Twixmas? Let’s have a little fun today—does Twixmas feel disorienting to you? If so, why? We’ve officially entered the strangest week of the year—the week between Christmas and New Year’s. (Did you know this time period has been named Twixmas?) It’s the season when we don’t know what to do, what day of the week it is, and if we should clean up our nutrition now or wait until after the new year. If you know, you know…😉 The next several days are often tricky because we’ve likely been out of our regular routines lately. Our bodies, brains, and cravings might be a bit confused this week. If you’ve been eating more lately, your stomach may growl a little more than usual. If you’ve been eating more sugar lately, your brain will crave it a little more for a few days. If you haven’t been exercising lately, you may have to dig deep into your discipline bag this week. What I want you to take away from this message is this: It’s okay. It’s okay if you’re a little hungrier, your cravings are a little stronger, and you have to rely on stronger discipline this week. If you plan for these things to happen, they won’t surprise you. You’ll expect them and already have an action plan in place. 🙌 When you work through potential scenarios ahead of time, you stand a better chance of being in control 💯: ✅ If you feel hungrier than usual, it’s okay to eat a little earlier. Intermittent fasting isn’t all or nothing, and it’s perfectly acceptable to work your way back into your regular eating schedule. Challenge yourself, but don’t allow yourself to get too hungry. ✅ When a craving hits, choose protein + fiber first. It isn’t the most fun option, but if you choose protein + fiber, and wait 20 minutes, your craving will subside! ✅ When a sugar craving hits all of a sudden, your blood sugar is probably dropping, per holistic nutritionist Elissa Goodman. “To keep your blood sugar balanced, eat a healthy amount of protein and add more high-fiber foods, like beans and legumes, to your diet, along with complex carbs. This will give you the fuel you need without the blood sugar spikes.” If you’re craving chocolate specifically, you likely may be deficient in magnesium. Eat more almonds, flaxseed, edamame, quinoa, or black beans to increase your magnesium.

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Ugh when your adult children think is funny to send food through the mail as jokes . One son birthday gifts were 4 cakes and 3 pies. He waits till Christmas to pay the brother back and sends live main lobster 🦞🦞🦞🦞 🦞 now how do you explain to you 2 1/2 year old granddaughter it’s okay they aren’t pets they are breakfast. Also one had not made it in the delivery so she was sad 😔 with that as well. Also Struggling with the food we had to eat not the best food choices and now I have a migraine 🤦🏼‍♀️ Motherhood is never a dull moment

TAKING ACTION: ✅ Even with it being a holiday week, everyone has at least one small win to celebrate today! Drop yours below. Remember, wins are wins—no matter the size! 🎉 Happy Friday, friends! We made it through Christmas, and today is the day when we celebrate physical and/or mental wins. It’s the day we get to celebrate YOU! 🎉 We’ve talked about it before, but oftentimes in our health journeys, we get stuck in the “all or nothing” mindset. This is applicable concerning our failures and wins, as well. Allow me to give you a couple of examples: 🥳 We do the work it takes (both nutritionally and physically) to get us to where we want to be—and then we stop. We experience success, and then we stop doing the work it took to get us there. The problem is, success is not final. It’s not a destination; therefore, every time we stop, we’re creating another dip in the roller-coaster. Don’t let the holiday season be the reason you stop! 🚫 We stumble or fail along the way, and instead of making the next decision a positive or healthy one, we throw the entire day away. This often leads to more and more missed opportunities. We view the act of failure as crippling, or often fatal, when in reality, it isn’t. Stumbles aren’t fatal. A few holidays aren’t fatal. Staying down after we stumble is. The problem with these different scenarios isn’t within the actions themselves. The problem is in the brain—in your mindset. It’s the “all or nothing”, “black or white” thinking. Neither success nor failure is permanent, so we shouldn’t treat them that way. The result of almost every action is temporary. You can’t stay there because if you do, you won’t grow. When we fail, we should own it, learn from it, apply what we've learned, and move forward. When we win, we should own it, learn from it, CELEBRATE it, and move forward. ➡️🎉