You work too hard all year to be healthy and fit to let the Holiday season set you back. Or perhaps you have big goals for yourself in 2021 and you would like to get a jump start on your endeavor to be healthy and fit in the New Year. I hate to see people work so hard and get tripped up by all the office parties, happy hours, unhealthy foods and the never-ending cookies that literally show up at your door from very well-meaning neighbors.

In an effort to help out, I compiled some tips and tricks to help you stay on track and maintain your healthy lifestyle in a time of year that’s symbol is literally a fat guy. Sorry Santa, these tips are for you too!

This is a big question, maybe the biggest and the most impactful question you could ever ask yourself. You have your goals, and things that you desire in your life and at times you work towards them, At times things are flowing and moving in the right direction. You are focused, feeling good, confident, full of energy and have a love for life. Maybe you want to loose weight or go after that dream job you have always wanted. You decide to go after it and your doing great, until……..

The following is something 100% of my clients have heard me say time and time again. I work with so many amazing people with the majority being female. They are rock star mom’s, kicking ass in the work world, running a household and tending to their families. They make time for everyone, friends, kids, husbands, they even find time to do volunteer work and help those less fortunate. These amazing women would drop anything and everything for the people in their life. The only problem is that they put themselves last or sometimes not on the list at all.

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in” Ernest Hemingway

This quote speaks to many of us as we recall hard times we have been through in our lives. It may bring up pain or discomfort. It may make us want to hide in shame because we have faltered at times in our lives and were less than perfect.