A client describes how a weight-loss coach turned vague goals like "eat until full" into concrete plans for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. The coach provided strategies for staying at the table without overeating and helped manage post-holiday weight gain.
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Well, to that point, right, it's like, it's easy for me to say, it's so easy to stop eating when you're full. It's so easy to ask yourself, how do you want to feel after this meal? There's— it is easy, but there's all the stuff that comes in that complicates that. And that's where working with a coach like you is so helpful because we worked through a lot of the things that we talked about today. We worked through the sitting at the table and not eating while other people are eating. We worked through our Thanksgiving plan and our Christmas plan and our New Year's plan and all of that. We worked through, like, actually over Christmas I ended up gaining some weight and we worked through that. Like, there's— it's simple on paper and then our brains make it real complicated with all of the circumstances of our lives. So, um, yeah, having someone like you to work with makes that process so much easier because you have an unbiased third-party support to walk you through what is going on. And