Hi everyone, welcome to this episode of Science versus Bullshit.

So first thing I wanted to discuss was something I had a discussion with a coach about today.

And that was kind of around like falling for this narrative.

And I certainly used to fall for it myself of seeing most of the fitness industry, tell people that, like,

you know, it's okay to just let yourself go over Christmas and it's not a big deal and

people need to chill out. And I get that for some people, that probably is the right message.

Like if you're someone who's maybe borderline, like, disordered eating type tendencies,

feels like they need to track every single

calorie that they consume and they're stressing out about tracking their Christmas dinner or

something. I'm like, yeah, that's probably quite a good message. But for a lot of people,

it's not a useful message and it's not really supported by the data and the data shows that most people

gain most of their weight between November and January. So actually it's a time where you probably

need to be a little bit more aware of the choices that you're making. And that's not to say like

don't have Christmas dinner or stress out about things or avoid having fun or try and be as

on point as you can throughout the whole thing. It's more about actually choosing your indulgences.

And I went into this in a little bit more depth in the last episode that I did. If you haven't

listened to the last podcast, I'd highly recommend that you do because I'm hoping it will kind of

shift the way that you're thinking coming into this time of year. And there's really

interesting studies that show that if you're, what's the right way to frame this? Basically,

if you have less of something, you enjoy it more, which may seem quite obvious to people, but then I think

we don't really think about it with food

but anyway like you know it's not a treat anymore if you're having it all the time so

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