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What was the hardest part about losing over 100 pounds?

Yeah, I think the mindset piece.

Like, just eat this and don't eat that, and it seems so simple.

But then what do you do when you want to self-sabotage?

The environment itself can make or break a person's weight loss journey.

And I find that there's a big environmental shift in December

with it being darker outside and kind of just gloomier, but you still have the joy of the

holidays. You're off of work. There are more parties. There's also a lot of loneliness and depression

that occurs. Compensate healthily, right? So a lot of people, when they gain 15 pounds in December, come

January, now they think they have to do something so extreme. They think that they have to cut

everything out. They go on these like wild extreme cleanses that are unsustainable, unhealthy. You

bite it, you write it, you drink it, you ink it, you nibble it, you scribble it, but it's without

judgment and you keep moving on. So are you saying the best thing I could probably do to make my environment as conducive as possible,

no matter where I go this holiday season?

I'm Alana Mollstein, registered dietitian nutritionist, and welcome to Ever Forward Radio.

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