Summary: ----------------------------------------<br> ♦ Food, Diet and the Holiday Season ♦<br> ----------------------------------------<br> It’s the Holiday season and time to start fretting about diet and weight gain, right? Not so fast. Healthy diet psychology celebrates and embraces food during the Holidays.<br> <br> ♦♦ “What you resist, persists.” ♦♦<br> <br> • Food has been part of holiday traditions for hundreds of years, spanning both time and cultures; it is included in the happiness of the Season.<br> <br> • Resisting food during the holidays is silly. It just needs to be managed.<br> <br> • Proper diet psychology is about “managing celebration.”<br> <br> • This isn’t the time of year to wage war against yourself.<br> <br> • Scott suggests “…a time to embrace” from Ecclesiastes chapter 3, 1-8 includes the embracing of food in its proper time:<br> “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…”.<br> <br> • Scott made a practice of scheduling a two-week-long break from diet each year during Christmastime.<br> <br> • If the Holiday season has no importance for you, then go ahead and stick to your diet.<br> <br> • A free mind doesn’t mean total hedonistic approach to food indulgence… the free mind is an adult mind.<br> <br> • The Cycle Diet is a diet of inclusion, not exclusion; you can live [and maintain a great physique] in a world of food abundance.<br> <br> • The Cycle Diet allows for refeeds. These can be built into the program.<br> http://thecycle.diet/<br> <br> • Lean into food during the holidays rather than fighting it as fad diet gurus would advise.<br> <br> **Get an entire module of "Food Freedom" as a Free Email Course. 100% Free. No Credit Card Required.<br> https://foodfreedomcourse.com/free/<br>
