097: My Dry Holiday

When was your last real true holiday? One where you shut off work and didn’t bring a laptop and truly went on vacation? It’s difficult to do that but so rewarding when you do. I want to share my experiences from the three weeks I just spent in Thailand where I did just that! I even took the work apps off my phone. I felt incredibly liberated. The parameters I set around food added to the good feeling. Usually when I go on holiday I set gentle guidelines for myself in terms of food: I’ll stop eating when I’m full, I won’t overeat, and I’ll make sure to drink all my water. I achieved this and more.

Let me first say I’m not a real alcohol drinker or a late night partier. I had my party time in my youth but now I want to feel healthy and rested on my holidays. I’m also a bit picky about alcohol but I like to indulge in bold red wine, whiskey, and single malt scotch. On our first evening in Bangkok, we went to a rooftop bar and enjoyed a meal with a gorgeous martini. But halfway through, in spite of how delicious it was, I suddenly decided I didn’t want it. I didn’t want the alcohol. This aversion to alcohol just seized me through the whole vacation and I went with it; I ended up having a dry holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it. And what I realized was how empowered I felt in being able to follow my body and take a stand against what the norm was. I want to share that with you, all the revelations I had on my holiday. So join me on this journey.

About host Michelle Tubman:

Michelle Tubman is an emergency physician in Alberta, Canada. She is also an overweight woman who has struggled for decades with her own weight and body image. She has spent her adult life constantly battling the urge to overeat with her desire to be thin and healthy. As a physician she understood the nutritional aspects of a healthy diet, but having the knowledge wasn’t enough to produce the changes she wanted in her body. And so she pursued extra training in life coaching, nutrition coaching, the science of habit formation, and eating psychology. And this is where the magic is. There is so much work that needs to happen on the inside before we can see changes on the outside.

Michelle founded Wazya Health to help successful, professional women who, after years of dieting, understand that optimal weight and health is more than calories-in-calories-out. She wants to help women listen to that quiet voice inside that tells them there’s deeper work to be done when it comes to weight and body image.

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