Get Back on Track After Easter (Even When You Don’t Feel Like It)

Still face-down in a pile of chocolate foil and regret? This episode is your post-Easter slap back to reality (with love, of course). I’m dishing up the real reason you're stuck in the “start again Monday” cycle — and spoiler: it’s not just the chocolate bunny’s fault. If you're a woman over 30 trying to lose weight, stop emotional eating, get motivated, and actually stick to your healthy habits, this episode is your jam. We’re diving into food guilt, weight loss mindset, self-sabotage, and the secret psychology behind why “getting back on track” feels so damn hard. It’s time to put the bunny down and remember who the heck you are. Let’s go, babe!

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 What is up your gorgeous, fabulous creatures? Welcome to a brand new week of the Easter. Of the Easter. What is up your gorgeous, fabulous creatures? Welcome to a brand new week of the Losing It podcast. We are fresh off the tail of the Easter weekend, and if you are feeling like much like most of us, if you are feeling like Easter through a good night into your weight loss progress, I promise you, babe, you are not alone.

So what if I told you that the real problem over the weekend wasn't chocolate? It wasn't even the binges that you had, it's what's going on underneath it. I'm gonna talk to you today about why it feels so hard to get back on track after any sort of holiday. And by the people who do get results are the ones that are willing to walk straight through that discomfort.

Like those hot coals. What was it that Tony Robbins used to make people walk over? You would not find me walking on hot coals, but I can tell you the real changes that you need to make, they're not always cute and it's not always motivating. It's not gonna look like a Pinterest quote, but it is gonna be you versus the chocolate bunny, and it's your time to win.

You are not addicted to chocolate. You are not what you're addicted to is the pleasure that you currently think that you're giving yourself and possibly permission. So this is what's really interesting about these particular times of year that we give ourselves permission to eat Christmas, Easter.

Hanukkah. Most emotional eaters don't realize that it's not. The food itself, or in this case, the chocolate that they're hooked on. It's the psychological permission that you give yourself at those times of year. It's like the holiday becomes a kind of socially acceptable excuse to stop trying. I mean, come on, everyone's indulging.

It's just a few days. I'll get back to it on Monday. But what you are really, really chasing in those moments is the sort of temporary relief of not having to. Quote unquote, be good all the time. Well, I was so good today with my food. Oh, I was really bad today with my food. This is a bullshit way of thinking that we really need to stop.

But if you are finding that giving yourself that permission to eat feels like a break from self-control, then that can become really super dangerous in the long term because you are almost like flipping a light switch on and off, on and off. Now I'm doing good, and now I'm practicing looking after myself, and now I'm not.

Now I'm not giving a shit. And all that's going to do is secretly reinforce the idea that food, junk food especially equals freedom. And you looking after yourself or just making smart, savvy food choices is pressure. I. That is some bullshit. That's like we always think, oh, I need to eat some vegetables. I should eat some salad.

Well, no, you don't have to, but what you could do is just start giving yourself consistent, conscious freedom with your food so that you're not totally reliant on outside permission from bullshit made up holidays to be able to let go and feel relaxed around. Food. Half the time you don't even want the food you're eating.

You just want relief from having that pressure to perform. I gotta be good. I gotta make sure I get all my steps in. Gotta make the right food choices. But what you really want is permission to let go, and that is something you can give yourself anytime of the day. Because letting go doesn't mean eating all the food in the universe.

Letting go means you give yourself permission to make choices that you actually feel good about. Follow my eating codes. We eat when we're hungry. We don't eat when we're not. When we do eat, we stop eating at 80%. This is just fucking common sense. The danger of you giving your power away to a calendar is that, like I said, you're gonna reinforce the narrative that you have to eat a certain way at a certain time, and you really don't.

I mean, you really don't. You can have chocolate bunnies anytime of the year. I know you can because I did the research and you can buy them online when it's not Easter. So what you wanna do is create an internal permission slip. You want balance all year round. You don't need this on off light switch situation.

That is some serious bullshit. The second way you're gonna start powering forward now that Easter is over, is to recognize that this post e Easter hangover isn't guilt. This is complete and total identity confusion. Now bear with me here after a binge or any off track weekend, it's what it feels like.

Most of us as females, we feel really guilty, but what's actually happening is underneath. We have a sense of identity dissonance because before Easter, Easter, you were becoming this strong, empowered version of yourself, and then boom, you revert back to an old version of yourself that quite frankly, you were trying your hardest to escape.

The discomfort isn't just physical, it's emotional, fucking whiplash from breaking your own trust. With the version of you that you were trying to become, you were promising yourself that you were gonna do better and you weren't making better choices until this Easter weekend popped up. And then, like I said, emotional whiplash.

Okay, well I'm not gonna be that version of me anymore. I'm gonna go back and be the old shitty version of me that I actually was trying to escape. So when you are returning to your old eating patterns very often over these Easter weekends or holiday weekends, it can feel like a total betrayal, not just of your diet, but to your future self.

So you wanna reconnect really as quickly as possible with that new identity, not just the weight goal. It's not just about getting back onto the bathroom scales and setting new numbers and new goals. It's about getting your head back in the game with. Who you wanna be, how you wanna be living as that person.

And now what would it take to make that happen? Use that identity gap as fuel, not shame to recommit to the goals that you had. You are not stinging from the overeating that you did this weekend. You are stinging from the identity clash. You were becoming this incredible new version of you and the binge that happened over the weekend reminded you of the old one.

And that's what hurts. So that feeling, you can now use that to fuel either sabotage and you can keep eating all week, or you can use it to fuel self-compassion. Oh, I see why I did that. Now I fucking got confused. It really isn't that big a deal. And just do a very quick mental. Reset by asking yourself, okay, what would my future self do next?

This is the biggest thing that I teach eating code number five is to act like the person you wanna become. So if you haven't got my five eating codes yet, you can get them all inside of my free course. Hit the link in the show notes or head on over to kylie ps.com/free course. I break them down over three short videos.

There is five eating codes, and the fifth one is to act like the person you wanna become. That means every day we get up, we ask ourselves. What shopping, what store am I gonna be shopping in? In the shopping mall of my mind today? There's a whole mall up there. And are we shopping in the badass and bougie store, or am I gonna be shopping in the I'm a pathetic loser store.

I might as well keep eating. Whichever store you shop in is going to dictate who you will be and how you will act that day. The thirdly, and lastly, the last and final thing that is gonna decide whether you jump straight back onto your feeling incredible and making progress train this week, or whether you stay in the mode of which I've done.

Every single year in the mode of, well, you know, I did eat all day on Monday, so I might as well just finish off the week and I'll start again. Clean next Monday. But this is how it would end for me. I would then look at the calendar and go, well, now it's also really nearly the end of April, so I might as well just start again on the 1st of May.

So I would eat my way through it the entire half month of April. Like it was just ridiculous. So if you are waiting to feel ready. You are go. I'll just see you here this time next year, and you'll probably be another 10 pounds heavier. It is time for you to start building resilience. Too many of you are waiting until the urge passes or until the motivation comes back, or you feel stronger before you just fucking decide to get on track.

But recovering or moving forward or getting over emotional eating is never gonna be about feeling ready. It's about learning to act. Even when you feel triggered, weak, tired, that's resilience. That's the actual work that we have to do. Too. Many of us as emotional eaters often confuse emotional readiness.

With our ability to perform, and that is what's keeping you stuck. You don't need to feel ready. You are capable of performing, saying no to food, making choices in your best interest, saying no to food when you're not hungry. Making great choices when you are hungry. Stopping at eating at 80% food when you're, when you do start eating, you can do that whether you feel ready or not.

That's not hard because that is being controlled by your prefrontal cortex, not your habit brain. So you have full control and autonomy over your appendages and your decisions, whether you're gonna put food in your mouth or not, and how long you're gonna chew and when you're gonna stop chewing, and when you're gonna stop eating at 80%.

The skill of doing the hard thing, like. Putting the chocolate bunny down even when every single cell in your body is screaming. Just one more is something that you can build over time. All you have to do is start reframing that discomfort 'cause it will be uncomfortable as a sign that you are no longer abandoning yourself.

Sitting around waiting to feel motivated is exactly what keeps you stuck year after year at this time, at this time of year, Easter, after Easter at this time of year, but emotional eating, recovery, moving past it, getting stronger. It's not about the motivation. It's the courage that you choose to step into in that moment.

And when you do, say no to yourself, start looking at that as an act of kindness, not deprivation. Well, I don't wanna deprive myself. You know what you're actually fucking depriving yourself of in that moment when you say no to the food, you're not depriving yourself of the food. You are depriving yourself of feeling like shit tomorrow, being heavier on the scales tomorrow, missing out on the life that you want tomorrow.

That's what you are depriving yourself. So you're giving yourself a gift practice micro moments of strength. These are the small wins that start to rebuild your trust really fast after, on a weekend of off plan eating. So if you think that today's episode hit home and you feel like you're ready to stop waiting for motivation to start hitting you over the head and you wanna start building some real actual resilience, I want you to take one small.

Brave action today, and maybe that looks like throwing out the last Easter chocolate. I mean, that would break my heart. I'd probably rather give it to the neighbor than throw it in the bin. But you could do that. You could go for a walk instead of binging, binge on Netflix tonight, whatever it is to prove to yourself that you can do the difficult things.

Even when you don't feel like it, even when it's not singing sunshine and rainbows all around you and pixies aren't dancing around your shoulders. And if you want that deeper support, join us inside of the Bob Shore Blueprint. That's where we're doing this work together every single day. So babes, I'm gonna leave you today with a journal prompt.

This is something that I am quite big on because I think that journaling is the quickest, fastest way to unearth your own bullshit so that you can see it for what it is. Start poking holes in it and move the fuck on. So you can journal it by asking yourself, where am I still waiting to feel ready before I take action?

And how would my future self act in this situation? Or you can go even deeper by asking yourself, what would it look like today if I stopped needing permission to relax or indulge, and started trusting myself to make empowered choices? At all times, honeys. As always, I'm sending you tremendous amounts of love.

You know the drill. If you wanna come join us inside of the blueprint, just hit the link in the show notes or join us over at kylie ps.com/blueprint. I am sending you love. I cannot wait to see you again in the next episode. Until then, gorgeous ones. Bye for now. Thank you so much for tuning in. Remember to shimmy your bar over to kyliepax.com and join me inside of the bombshell blueprint so you can stop emotional eating and start losing your way.

Now, you'll also find helpful notes and resources inside my past podcast that will help you lose your weight without losing your sanity. I'll see you next week.