{"id":245791,"date":"2025-12-22T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:57:12","slug":"festive-food-fear-how-to-take-a-more-mindful-forgiving-approach-to-your-annual-christmas-over-indulgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245791\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive food fear: How to take a more mindful, forgiving approach to your annual Christmas over-indulgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhy do we throw all our good work out the window to eat and drink everything in sight at this time of year, before flagellating ourselves for it in January? Here\u2019s how to break the cycle&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Megan Roantree wants us to be kinder to ourselves this festive season. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9a6ffae1-7468-4ea1-ade9-9e4c39af31a1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Megan Roantree wants us to be kinder to ourselves this festive season. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of my core memories of Christmas each year is just feeling a bit sick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ll have had brown bread and smoked salmon for breakfast, along with a handful of Roses and some Pringles, and while we\u2019re opening presents and welcoming visitors, I\u2019ll have laid out a stylish-looking cheeseboard which I\u2019ll absolutely demolish while absent-mindedly yapping about New Year plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why do we throw all our good work out the window to eat and drink everything in sight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,23,6796],"class_list":{"0":"post-245791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115763101408630825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}