24/12/2025
I thought I had it all figured out….
Until I decided to shift my pillars of progress for Christmas. Changing my markers of success and the things I’d track between Christmas and NY. Because tracking or keeping an eye on certain things can be a helpful tool.
But when it starts to become neurotic, controlling and you feel you can’t trust yourself without that “tool”…
It becomes more problematic. Less healthy.
You won’t catch me logging into my fitness pal on Christmas Day (I’ve defo done that before) and panic guesstimating calories I’d eaten…or asking my clients to send me screenshots of what they’ve had (unless it’s the most stunning potato pic of their life).
💡 Here are some tips for tracking some of the things we might be tracking instead, from a veryyyy low pressure perspective.
Remembering these self check-ins and tools are there to help, not to control. They should be things that positively add to your day; not taking away from, add more pressure or creating negative self expectation!
📱 One sentence per day in your notes on your phone.
🎅 A diary, note book or a fancy new journal Santa kindly brought.
✅ Write yourself a few checkboxes.
🎨 Symbols or emojis can be a fun, quick way to do it. Or even colour chart.
🎙️ Voice notes to yourself, from yourself.
🪙 Coins or adding something physical to a jar.
You’re allowed to enjoy Christmas without measuring yourself and your worth by calories, numbers, steps or %’s. Your worth isn’t a number, and it never was. You’re also an adult, so making your own decisions and spending your time making the next few week what YOU want.
Not what someone online tells you that you should, could or need to be doing.
Sleigh your day, your way x
