About this session
The holiday season can bring weeks of dinners, parties, office treats, travel, disrupted routines, alcohol, family traditions, and food that carries emotional and cultural meaning.
Trying to approach all of that with rigid food rules often makes the season harder rather than healthier.
This session takes a more realistic approach.
Participants explore how to enjoy festive food while maintaining the eating habits that help them feel well, manage repeated social occasions, navigate alcohol and disrupted routines, and avoid the cycle of over-restriction followed by feeling that they have "blown it."
The emphasis is on overall patterns, flexibility, enjoyment, and returning to normal routines naturally rather than compensating for celebrations or trying to make every festive meal nutritionally perfect.
What your people take away
- Keep perspective when festive meals and treats become more frequent
- Maintain useful everyday eating habits without rigid holiday food rules
- Navigate parties, buffets, restaurant meals, alcohol, and repeated social occasions
- Manage hunger and energy around travel, late nights, and disrupted schedules
- Enjoy cultural and family food traditions without guilt
- Return to normal eating after celebrations without detoxes, restriction, or compensation
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30 minutes
30 Minutes — Key Points: Keep Your Foundations During the Festive SeasonA focused 30-minute session on three key points from Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season: keep normal meals normal, don't treat every day like the main event and keep some everyday anchors.
- Keep normal meals normal
- Don't treat every day like the main event
- Keep some everyday anchors
Covers 3 of 4 points in Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season.
60 minutes
Enjoy the Holidays Without the Food RulesA practical introduction to festive meals, treats, social eating, alcohol, appetite, disrupted routines, and maintaining perspective across the season.
- Module 1 — Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season
- Live Q&A
Covers 1 of 4 parts: Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season.
90 minutes
Navigate Food, Drink & Social EventsAdds deeper work around buffets, restaurant meals, repeated celebrations, alcohol, travel, appetite, food pressure, cultural traditions, and all-or-nothing thinking.
- Module 1 — Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season
- Module 2 — Parties, Buffets & Social Eating
- Live Q&A
Covers 2 of 4 parts: Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season and Parties, Buffets & Social Eating.
3 hours
Covers 3 of 4 parts: Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season, Parties, Buffets & Social Eating and Travel, Disrupted Routines & Busy Holiday Weeks.
Full day
Build Your Holiday Eating StrategyThe full session combines practical planning, social situations, festive food, alcohol, travel, routines, emotional eating, and post-holiday reset strategies.
- Module 1 — Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season
- Module 2 — Parties, Buffets & Social Eating
- Module 3 — Travel, Disrupted Routines & Busy Holiday Weeks
- Module 4 — Leave the Guilt Behind
- Holiday Eating & Events Planner
- Festive Meal Balance Guide
- Social Food & Drink Decision Guide
- Personal Holiday Wellbeing Plan
- Live Q&A
Covers all 4 parts.
Also available as a 4-week program, for change that lasts. Ask us about it.
What’s covered
Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season
Every length- Keep normal meals normalSkipping breakfast or lunch to "save calories" for a celebration can leave people arriving extremely hungry and make the evening harder to navigate.
- Don't treat every day like the main eventThe holiday season may contain several special meals, but not every breakfast, lunch, snack, and workday needs to become a celebration meal.
- Keep some everyday anchorsRegular meals, vegetables and fruit, hydration, fiber, and familiar breakfasts or lunches can provide useful continuity during a disrupted season.
- Let celebration food be celebration foodHoliday foods often carry family, cultural, religious, and emotional meaning beyond their nutritional composition.
Parties, Buffets & Social Eating
90 minutes and longer- Arrive ready to enjoy the foodTurning up ravenous after deliberately restricting all day can make it difficult to respond to appetite naturally.
- Buffets don't require a perfect strategyBuffets create abundance, variety, and the temptation to sample everything simply because it is available.
- Handle food pressure without dramaFamily members and colleagues may repeatedly offer food, encourage second portions, or comment on what someone is eating.
- Think about alcohol as part of the whole eveningAlcohol can affect hydration, appetite, sleep, judgment, and how someone feels the following day.
Travel, Disrupted Routines & Busy Holiday Weeks
3 hours and longer- Expect routines to changeTravel, shopping, family commitments, school holidays, work deadlines, and late nights can disrupt usual meal patterns.
- Have easy food availableBusy periods are easier when there are a few useful meals, snacks, or ingredients available without much preparation.
- Hydration can easily get forgottenTravel, alcohol, heating, long days, and changed routines can all interfere with normal drinking habits.
- Sleep changes food choices tooLate nights and poorer sleep can influence hunger, appetite, energy, and caffeine use the following day.
Leave the Guilt Behind
Full day only- One meal does not need correctingEating more than usual at a celebration does not require fasting, skipping meals, or exercising to compensate.
- Avoid the "I'll start again in january" effectOnce people believe the season has already "ruined" their healthy habits, they may abandon routines entirely until the new year.
- Don't detox after the holidaysJuice cleanses, detox teas, extreme restriction, and punishing January diets are not necessary responses to festive eating.
- Take forward what actually workedParticipants review which holiday strategies helped them enjoy the season while still feeling physically well.
How booking works
- Book online. Create a free Workbliss profile, then pay with session credits, by card or by invoice.
- Pick a date. Choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or book now and set the date later.
- Choose your expert. Within 3 working days, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date.
- We deliver it. Your expert is briefed on your people and goals, then runs the session live online or at your site.
Questions about Eating Well Through the Holidays
How long is Eating Well Through the Holidays?
Eating Well Through the Holidays runs as 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 3 hours or full day. You choose the length when you book. A 30-minute session covers three key points from Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season: keep normal meals normal, don't treat every day like the main event and keep some everyday anchors. A 60-minute session covers Keep Your Foundations During the Festive Season in full, with a live Q&A. A 90-minute session adds Parties, Buffets & Social Eating. A 3-hour session adds Travel, Disrupted Routines & Busy Holiday Weeks. A full-day session adds Leave the Guilt Behind. It is also available as a 4-week program.
Can Eating Well Through the Holidays be delivered online or in person?
Yes, both. It runs live online, so every office can join at the same time, or in person at your site, in any country.
How do we book Eating Well Through the Holidays?
Create a free Workbliss profile with your work email, then open Eating Well Through the Holidays to see the price for each length and book it. You can pay with session credits, by card or by invoice, and choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or set it later.
Who leads the session?
A vetted Workbliss expert, briefed on your people, culture and goals before the session. After you book, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date within 3 working days, so you can choose who leads it.
Can it be tailored to our company?
Yes. Every session is shaped around your goals, your people and the benefits you already offer, and delivered by experts in your people’s languages.