Have you ever felt like it was impossible to eat like a normal person during the holidays? With Halloween upon it, it's the start to the 2025 holiday season. It's a time of anticipation, joy, and excitement, but also pressure, unrealistic expectations, and exhaustion.

There's a story that tends to come with the holiday season around indulgences with food.

The idea that

-this is someone's only chance,

-or that the holidays won't be the same without a particular kind of food,

-or that eating too much or drinking too much don't matter,

tend to abound.

It throws most of us into a black and white space with food and the holidays. Either you eat well and are miserable emotionally or you fully embrace hedonism and feel like crap physically.

This week's pod is all about expanding the concept of eating w ...