Holiday Strategy - red light & green light days
At a WW meeting years ago in S Hamilton, MA, our fantastic leader, Mary introduced a great way to manage ourselves through the tempting Holiday season.
I really liked it and found it effective, but can't remember specifics. It went something like you count all the days between Thanksgiving and New Years, then from those days, you mark the heavy eating/drinking days as green days, I guess, and then the rest are red? Maybe it was just psychological, so that when you saw the percentage of red to green, you'd see it wasn't that great a number, and it would keep you from feeling like a failure, and throwing in the towel? I believe the preplanning would help w keeping some control on those green days and knowing that you would most likely not gain if you did the plan on the red. Maybe that was all there was to it, but if there are other specifics that anyone knows, I'd appreciate reading your post to fill in the details. Thanks. Wren
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