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change for your community. Volunteer at I can be a Magistrate.co.uk. Okay. As part of Christmas Podding, he's back, it's Dr. Rongen Chatterdy, and a lot of you have been asking about how to avoid the pitfall of excess and overindulgence during the festive season,. Wongan Chatted.

What are your thoughts?

Okay, I'm so much to say on this, but few thoughts that come straight to mind are,

firstly, be kind to yourself.

Recognise this is a busy time of year, there are certain

pressures. Don't beat yourself up if you overindodge. We're all human doing the

best that we can. That's the first thing I say. Second thing, if you're busy

at work, you're busy with family self, you're busy with work do's, don't forget about movement.

Movement is one of the best ways of de-stressing.

Literally when you're getting stressed out, you are building up nervous energy in your body you're

priming your body to move don't worry about going to the gym don't worry about the spinning

class even five minutes of movement will make you feel better. It can be skipping, it could be

star jumps, it could be a quick run round the block, you know, it could be if you've

got kids it could be kicking a football around in the garden it doesn't matter but

move your body and the final thing I'd probably say is one of the biggest problems

these days is that we don't have any time to ourselves. This problem is often heightened during the festive period when there are lots of competing pressures and competing demands.

Make sure every day, even if it's just for five or ten minutes, you take a bit of time out for yourself, put your phone off, right?

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