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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 245: Avoid the Trap of the False Choice, and How to Eat Healthfully in the Face of Halloween Candy or Social Pressure

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We discuss why it’s important to avoid false choices, and talk to Whole30’s Melissa Hartwig Urban about eating right when faced with Halloween candy or social pressure. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected]; happiercast.com/238; 774-277-9336. Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/245 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Get tickets for our last live podcast events of 2019 in Atlanta, Charlotte and Brooklyn here: https://gretchenrubin.com/events Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:55.5

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, and human nature. I'm in

1:08.5

New York City and Liz May is a Liz with Kraft, my sister, and sometimes my happiness, Guinea

1:13.9

Pig. That's me, a Liz with Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles. And

1:19.3

Gretchen, I definitely need help with the Halloween family, so I'm excited to talk to

1:24.2

Melissa. Well, speaking of Halloween temptations, I'm

1:29.1

supposed to check in with you as your accountability partner for your number six, your one word theme

1:34.4

for the year. We had one check in and we needed to move it to this check in, so I'm asking,

1:40.6

how's it going?

1:41.6

Okay, well, I did. So the whole question is, how am I doing on my size six goal and also

1:47.4

getting to my A1C of six? I should say about the A1C Gretchen that I said six, but really

1:54.0

it's in the sixes. So six is sort of a general number there. So I got my A1C and it was not

2:01.4

in the sixes. I was so bummed at 7.1. My doctor feels strongly we can, as he said, shave

2:09.5

it for the end of the year. So I will hopefully be in the sixes in our final check in. But

2:14.9

I really thought I was going to be in the sixes. So that was extremely disappointing to me.

2:20.0

And then on the whole size six of it all, I'm still just, I'm going to have to say I'm still

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