Ello,
I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Christmas 🎅🎄
That said, Christmas is done.
Family’s gone home.
Group chats have gone quiet.
Tree’s starting to look a bit tired.
But your cupboards?
I bet they’re absolutely rammed.
🍫 Half-eaten boxes of Celebrations.
🧀 Random family packs of crackers you don’t even remember buying.
🍰 Cake shoved into any available fridge space.
🍗 Leftovers that have somehow become default meals.
And on paper, that sounds lovely.
But tn reality, it’s just extending Christmas gluttony for another 10–14 days… on your own.
Christmas food works because it’s shared
Christmas dinner works because:
You’re with family
You’re laughing
You’re sat round a table
The food is part of the moment
Once Christmas Day is over, that context disappears.
Eating your way through tubs of chocolate on the sofa, half-watching Netflix, three days after everyone’s gone home?
That’s not festive.
That’s just a bad habit waiting to happen.
You’re not enjoying it.
You’re just continuing to eat it because it’s there.
Get rid of the food
No, don’t chuck it in the bin.
You don’t need it. But there’s definitely other people who do.
This isn’t me being preachy; this is something I discovered one of my coaching clients does, and now I think we all should.
They took the unopened tubs, boxes of chocolates, surplus food, and donated it all to food banks and shelters. Places where that food actually matters.
You’ve had pigs in blankets across multiple days.
You’ve had the cake.
You’ve had the desserts.
Do you really need to eat the rest… slowly… alone… over a week?
I don’t think so.
Let Christmas end when it’s supposed to, and get back to your normal routine. I promise you’ll feel miles better for it.
Let it finish instead of dragging it into January as a quiet, mindless eating phase that doesn’t even feel good.
Cheers,
Sheep 🐏