Many people will tell you to “take the holidays off” if you’re trying to lose weight.

On the surface, it sounds fine, right?

“Stop worrying it about it for November and December. Eat the foods you love. Enjoy yourself. Then start losing weight again in January.”

Simple enough…

As long as you actually DO that, and as long as you don’t OVERDO it through the holidays.

It’s not at all a question of can you do that. It’s a question of WILL you.

A TON of people these days are addicted to sugar, or addicted to food in general.

So telling them to “go nuts’ over the holidays is like telling an alcoholic to go nuts with booze over the holidays.

If you’re likely to go off the deep end, binge like you’re demon possessed, and gain 40 pounds over November and December, well, that’s a SERIOUS weight jump that’s gonna take you way more than two months to get back off.

People who tell you to “do what you want” through the holidays are probably either:

1) Projecting (meaning, telling you what they want to hear/want to do), OR…

2) Don’t have food or sugar addiction (meaning, they’re like social drinkers – they enjoy alcohol from time to time, but aren’t alcoholics).

The choice, as always, is yours.

All I ask is that you be honest with yourself.

If you suspend all healthy habits and food management for the holidays, WILL you get back on track on January 2 and lose all the weight you’ve gained?

Or will you just end up kicking the can down the road and gaining back even more weight?

If you know, deep down, it’s the latter, then act accordingly.

Instead of suspending all food management and healthy habits, make small tweaks that’ll let you indulge without gaining weight.

Keep getting on the scale, keep drinking your water, and be very selective about which foods you eat. Make Code Red versions of them.

You can also choose to stay on track through the holidays, get the weight off, and enjoy more food flexibility next year.

Bottom line: If you keep doing what “fat you” wants to do, you’re gonna stay fat.

Find a NEW way forward for the holidays – one that at least keeps your weight the same, so that you don’t have 40+ pounds to drop when January 2 rolls around.