You’ve been told to follow certain “expert-approved” holiday tips so that you don’t eat everything in sight… but here’s the truth: 4 of these popular rules actually make you overeat this time of year.

After 40+ years of my own emotional eating, and after helping several hundred women conquer binge eating using strategies I learned while working as the Chief of Staff for FBI Counterintelligence — yes, really — I can tell you this: your holiday binges are triggered by advice that flat-out makes the overeating worse.

So today, I’m going to break down the four holiday tips you should never follow, and more importantly, the five psychology-based strategies that actually keep you in control around food, even at parties or family gatherings.

If you want a holiday season without feeling gross and spiraling into regret, this episode is for you.

Together, we will investigate:

• Why the most popular holiday eating tips backfire, and the 5 counterintuitive psychology-based plan you can implement that actually quiet the cravings and food noise.
• The four expert-approved strategies that actually cause you to eat more at the holiday parties and gatherings.
• The hidden danger on the crudite board.
• The one macronutrient mistake almost every woman makes during holiday meals (fix this and cravings drop 30–50%).
• The surprising dessert swap that satisfies your sweet tooth without triggering the binge brain (can you guess which dessert made the list?).
• How to build a holiday eating game plan that lets you enjoy festive food without the regret, shame, or starting over in January.
  
  

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▶️ FREE EMOTIONAL EATING PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE - https://pinkfortitude.mykajabi.com/weight-quiz

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Your overachieving tendencies are the #1 reason your “I’ll start in January” plan turns into holiday overeating, and you don’t even realize it’s happening.

There are 3 predictable personality traits that influence every food decision you make. They’re the same traits that have made you successful in your career, but are causing you to feel out of control around food, especially this time of year.

After 40+ years of emotional eating myself, and after helping several hundred women conquer emotional eating with tactics I learned as the Chief of Staff for FBI Counterintelligence (yes, really), I can tell you this. Your holiday binges aren’t random.

In this episode, we’re going to take these 3 personality traits, and instead of letting them sabotage you, I’m going to show you how to weaponize them to your advantage so you can stop binge eating, overeating, and stress eating when life feels chaotic… all without dieting, without starving yourself.

Together, we will investigate:

• The real reason smart, successful women lose control around holiday food, and the 3 hidden personality patterns driving it.
• The silent perfectionism pattern that turns into binge eating behind closed doors.
• How holiday chaos flips your brain into survival mode, and the tiny trigger you never noticed that makes you eat everything in sight.
• Why your overachiever brain goes straight to “all or nothing”… and the microscopic shift that instantly breaks that spiral.
• The sneaky relationship-driven habit (yes, you do this) that makes it almost impossible to say no to dessert at family gatherings.

Connect with Holly:

▶️ FREE TRAINING - THE PSYCHOLOGY-BASED METHOD TO OUTSMART EMOTIONAL EATING IN 10 DAYS - https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/hollybertone

▶️ FREE EMOTIONAL EATING PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE - https://pinkfortitude.mykajabi.com/weight-quiz

▶️ Follow Holly Bertone on Instagram - @holly.bertone

▶️ On the web - hollybertone.com

If today's episode resonated with you, be sure to hit the follow button where you are listening and also tap those 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a great review because it would mean so much to me to hang out with you every week and because it will also help to get this podcast and message out to more listeners!

I just had a week that should have triggered massive binge eating. But it didn’t. If you’re in a season of high stress because of travel, holidays, vacation or even a project deadline, you need to hear this because I want you to steal my exact strategy because one stressful week can unravel every single gain you’ve worked so hard to make.

After 40+ years of emotional eating myself, and after helping several hundred women conquer emotional eating with tactics I learned as the Chief of Staff for FBI Counterintelligence… yes, really… I promise you… you CAN get through the most chaotic, sleep-deprived, travel-heavy week without binge eating… if you follow a specific plan. I’m about to reveal the 5 exact steps I used during one of the most stressful weeks of my entire year, a week that should have triggered a binge, but didn’t.

Together, we will investigate:

• How to stay out of binge-eating mode when stress, travel, and sleep deprivation collide.
• What to eat during high-stress travel days so you don’t end up raiding the airport snack wall.
• The #1 mindset shift that keeps emotional eating from taking over on your busiest weeks.
• The most important question you can ask yourself when you get a craving, and what it does to your brain.
• The 5-step game plan that prevents binge eating during work travel, vacation, holidays, and chaotic weeks.
• How to make calm, grounded food decisions even when your routine is destroyed.
• How to build an stress-proof eating plan that stays solid even when life feels like a dumpster fire.
  
  

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Connect with Holly:

▶️ FREE TRAINING - THE PSYCHOLOGY-BASED METHOD TO OUTSMART EMOTIONAL EATING IN 10 DAYS - https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/hollybertone

▶️ FREE EMOTIONAL EATING PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE - https://pinkfortitude.mykajabi.com/weight-quiz

▶️ Follow Holly Bertone on Instagram - @holly.bertone

▶️ On the web - hollybertone.com

If today's episode resonated with you, be sure to hit the follow button where you are listening and also tap those 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a great review because it would mean so much to me to hang out with you every week and because it will also help to get this podcast and message out to more listeners!