The cookies are coming, the cookies are coming!

Before we learned Grandmommy is coming for Christmas this year (she promises to do the baking), my son asked me with a woeful expression “Um, mom, are we going to have any cookies this Christmas?” And because I delight in torturing my children I said… “Why no! In fact, let’s make it a completely sugar-free holiday! Maybe we should do gluten-free.  Heck, let’s go for vegan!” Poor kid, said he felt like crying… I guess he didn’t find it quite as a funny as I did (gotta make procrastination a little entertaining)!

While I actually do always aspire to expand my understanding and experience of healthy eating, and have in fact enjoyed periods of only gluten-free and sugar-free foods – I do not ever desire to celebrate the winter holidays without spritz, or fruit and nut stollens, and… Christmas morning mimosas. Because I’ve been working with USANA Health Sciences for close to five years now and have shifted my family’s lifestyle considerably, I’m happy to say my infractions are far less gluttonous then days past. My cravings have less power over me than they used to, thanks to following a mostly low-glycemic lifestyle and participating in regular 5-day RESET programs.

This post-holiday-foodocalypse  I’ll be at it again…reclaiming my body with RESET that is, January 9 thru 14, and as usual I’d love company. And THIS time (because I get bored easily) I’m planning lots of extra fun special activities! It is actually a rather clever notion – that setting boundaries for ourselves can be made quite pleasurable. I really don’t wish to feel deprived when I eat, so I will explore with friends how to enliven my shopping list and recipes for the week. So that my joy is not limited to meal time, I’m planning fun extras like going out to lunch, dancing, and game night!

If you’d like to participate and don’t live in Austin, don’t worry – I’ll make suggestions and provide resources for you to create a fun week of reclamation for yourself. Better yet, gather your family, friends & neighbors and do it together where you live. I guarantee that will be much more fun and add to your long-term commitment to your fun & health in 2011!

Check out all the juicy details and register at Eventbrite.

I’d love to know, what are some fun ways you make boundaries pleasurable? (with food or otherwise)?

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