Protecting Your Progress: The Holiday Goal That Actually Works - Paul Oneid
Published on: 05/10/2026
Every year around this time, I have some version of the same conversation with clients.

Every year around this time, I have some version of the same conversation with clients.

I had a coaching conversation recently that stuck with me. A client who is sharp, driven, the kind of person who runs a business and a household and still shows up wanting to get better, was frustrated with herself.

You told someone, maybe a coach, that you were tired. Twelve weeks later, you're on a new program, a supplement stack, and 300 fewer calories a day, and you still feel exactly the same at 2 pm on a Tuesday.

I'm a nutrition coach. I'm 15 weeks pregnant. And I haven't tracked a single gram of food in almost two months. I went into this pregnancy fully planning to. I had the whole picture in my head…