Holiday diet stress

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I recently received a comment on one of my holiday stress posts about how to manage your diet/weight loss plan during the holidays. Well let me be fully honest with you...I am a sugar junkie. Yes it is a terribly, horribly bad problem. I am a sucker for cookies, just about any kind, but if they have some type of chocolate then get out of my way I may claw you to get to them.
So what's the big deal about my sugaraholic personality? Well sugar is one ingredient that flares up some of my most unloved health problems, like migraines. And you say, just stay away? Yeah tell that to a starving hyena when you place some raw meat in front of it!
In reality though what works best is to just to stay away from sugar/chocolate, none at all, for days at a time. Like a week. Or more. Eventually I stop craving it. Eventually I actually sleep better and feel better. And then just NOT pick up one of those luscious, delicious chocolately chippy cookies. No cookies at all. No sugar at all. Once I do it's over. And seriously that's just what has to be done with all that junk food type stuff. Once you put a teeny tiny bit in your body your body flips out and does everything it can to get you to eat MORE!
Now how do I avoid it? I beat myself up mentally. I remind myself of all the horrible things that could happen to me if I were to start down that long dark pathway to sugar hades. Yep, I'm always saying be nice to yourself mentally, talk sweetly to yourself. When it comes to sugar, for me, it means WAR. I have to fight dirty. I have also found that chocolate flavored rice milk has no added sugar and can get me through those tough cravings. Is it as good as a cookie, No. Is it nicer to my body than all that crude in a cookie, yes.
So on this topic of holiday stress fight dirty! And Good Luck! I know I need a lot of luck this holiday season to avoid the dessert table...

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