Are the Holidays Giving You a Headache?

No need to sacrifice holiday merriment for management!

A couple of weeks ago, I surveyed my Instagram audience to see what they found to be the hardest part of managing diabetes during the holidays. Here’s what they said:

• Keeping track of carbs while grazing on holiday treats

• The fear of missing out on the fun and all the food

• Anticipating the time when food is served (not knowing when to prebolus)

• Guesstimating on carb counts

• Not knowing what’s in homemade foods

• Lack of planning around what food will be served

• Unpredictability on timing

• Lack of a normal schedule

• Family members not understanding or making rude/insensitive comments

• Keeping a balance with indulging on treats

• All the extra treats and unfamiliar foods

Any of these feel familiar? And these are only some of the typical headaches that people with diabetes deal with around the holidays.

Only 31% of my audience said they felt pretty prepared or very prepared for the holidays. How about you?

How do you think it would feel if instead you…

• Confidently navigated dosing strategies for a wide variety of food

• Calmly and firmly responded to intrusive questions and comments

• Compassionately made space for own needs and self-care

• Created a flexible plan for diabetes tasks that didn’t feel like it was usurping your precious time with family and friends

• Could really, truly believe that you could have good BGs AND a good holiday, and that a higher A1C in January was not inevitable.

If this sounds like something you could benefit from, I’ve got some good news!

Introducing… Holidays without the Headache!

This mini-course officially opens on November 14, but you can grab the presale price starting today for just $37! Inside the course, you’ll find:

• 5 modules that cover the top holiday headaches:

  • any lingering limiting beliefs

  • communication and boundaries with family & friends

  • unknown ingredients in homemade food

  • unpredictable timing and quantities

  • stress and interrupted schedules.

• Fillable PDF worksheets, handouts and scripts so you can build your own custom plan for navigating the holidays and creating solutions that fit your life.

• Two live coaching calls with me, on November 21 and December 12. Call will be recorded!

Presale is open from now until doors officially open on November 14, and then you can enroll at the full price ($97) until December 31 and then doors will close for good until next year. But if you enroll, you will still have access to all of the material to review and revisit whenever you want!

For those of you who are paid subscribers to this newsletter, you will get a 10% off coupon good until enrollment closes.

Paid subscribers also have access to special edition newsletters (including the self-compassion part 2, which was delayed due to vacation and this course, but is coming out this week!), as well as access to upcoming virtual meet-ups with me.

This is just the first course that I am producing as a part of The Diabetes Help Desk. A longer, more robust course and coaching program on my 7 step process for pattern analysis and management will be launching in the New Year. Paid subscribers will also receive a coupon code for that as well!