Get into character for a healthy Halloween!

Fancy Lady Misfit costume.

It’s Halloween week and posts abound which focus on having a happy and healthy one.

Suggestions for satiety. Prompts for passing on candy. Tips for tossing sweets in favor of raw veggies.

Traditional tips which work, but are *not* how we roll up in herre.

This year we’re taking a DIFFERENT approach to Halloween than we have in (more adult) years past.

We’re joining the kids, we’re donning the costumes, we’re RIDING THE CHARACTER wavvvvve to a healthy Halloween.

My three tips for how getting into character can create your healthiest Halloween ever:

Create a narrative. Costume optional (sigh.)—but narrative-creation is not. This Halloween you’re an actor. What’s your motivation? Challenge yourself as to why youre striving to be healthy tonight? Now consider all areas of your life. What would healthy you/your character eat? How would you dress & how would this reveal to the world how you view yourself? How would you carry yourself/walk etc? For Halloween (perhaps longer?) commit to responding to all scenarios as your ‘healthy self’ or character.
Share your costume-plan. As zany as it sounds, sharing your role-playing plan with support people helps! I (over)share everything with friends. I first shared this concept over 2 decades ago–but then it was intended as a 1 night thing. The subtle shift in how others affirmed the way I saw myself that Halloween kept me on the path to change. Bring your inner-circle into your act-as-if plan. Loving accountability partners have helped me sustain my life-changes for 20+ years.Respond as your character. This week—if youre me next week, too, when candy is on *sale*—temptation abounds. Parties. Treats at work. Halloween can be a healthy living minefield—but not to our healthy character-self. Would our Halloween character skip workouts for couch time? Would costumed-you *really* select a Snickers over socializing and enjoying conversation? Before you respond to *anything* this Halloween ask yourself how your character/healthier self would react. Change your mindset. Change your body. It IS that simple.

In a way, this is how I live the *other* 364, too.

Am I feeling like skipping my cardio? Am I not in the mood to git my PLAYOUT on?

I ask myself what my SUPER-HEROINE counterpart would do.

Am I longing to pass on good whole, clean foods & meal preparation in favor of a fast, processed’y snack?

I ask my self how the dainty Queen would dine.

I act as if….when Im not feeling ‘as if’ pretty much year ’round.

And so–I challenge you.

Join me this Halloween and, if youre up for it, through the next twenty or thirty decades as well.

How will you cruise through candy season, stay in character, & live healthy?

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