Feeling a little apprehensive about the festive season? It’s not just one day, is it? The celebrations seem to start in early December and go on… and on. Your calendar fills up fast – often with events you’re not even excited about!

And let’s face it, most of these involve endless food and drink, which can take a toll on your waistline, sleep, and overall wellbeing in just a few weeks.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. I’m sharing some of my best tips and tricks to help you keep on track, so that you sail through the festive season, without piling on the pounds, disrupting your sleep or triggering those pesky hot flushes.

Tune in for all my best advice on navigating parties; smart buffet choices; surviving Christmas dinner; mindful indulgence, and hangover hacks. This episode really is a must to help you cope with the festive season!

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Show Notes

Find out more about how nutrition supports your health in Jackie’s latest book The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish

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Check out Jackie’s other books: Va Va Voom: The 10-Day Energy Diet and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go

Biography

Award-winning nutritionist and author, Jackie Lynch is the founder of the WellWellWell nutrition clinic, where she specialises in women’s health and the menopause. Keen to break the taboo about discussing the menopause, she launched the popular diet & lifestyle podcast The Happy Menopause. It’s been shortlisted for the 2021, 2022 and 2024 International Women’s Podcast Awards.

Her latest book, The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish (Watkins, 2020) is a symptom-by-symptom guide to managing menopause symptoms through diet and lifestyle. It was Highly Commended in the 2021 Health & Wellbeing Awards for the Wellbeing Book category.

Jackie is also the author of Va Va Voom; The 10-Day Energy Diet (Headline, 2017) and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go (Nourish, 2016). Jackie’s advice features in a range of national media. She has also appeared as a guest expert on radio and TV, including Channel 4’s Superfoods.

Jackie’s nutrition clinic won Menopause Nutrition Clinic of the Year in the 2021 and 2022 London & South-East Prestige Awards.

From 2011-2022, Jackie was the Chair of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, the renowned training provider for accredited nutritional therapy in the UK. She is a Fellow of the British Association for Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine and a Member of the British Menopause Society.