Yes I do!
I remember feeling this way the year I’d lost a lot of weight.
You’ve already developed the willpower with your success earlier in the year and can do it again. You’ve got this as the saying goes!
I was 17/18 when I had my big weight loss, mainly because I just cut all “crap” out of my diet apart from a takeaway every Saturday - usually a curry - and started swimming/walking daily. My mother and I had a battle of wills but I was eventually convinced to eat chocolate, crisps, cake etc at Christmas. I decided as soon as January came to revert back to being super strict again.
You probably won’t have put that much on. I think that first Christmas I was 3lbs heavier than I’d been on December 23rd going into the New Year. By end of January I weighted a 1b less!
Being super strict wasn’t something I could do in the long term. However, I have been able to find the willpower I developed back then to resist overindulging the rest of the year.
I’ve found the following helps me:
Set small and achievable exercise and food “challenges” to get back on track after Christmas. It’s a sort of “give up 1 thing and start doing 1 thing” approach.
I’ve been in the habit of going to the gym at least 4 times a week and plan on continuing this next year. At one point years ago I’d go 6 times a week - madness! I have gone once this week. I’m going tonight and plan to tomorrow as well, so not doing too badly on this score already (assuming I stick with the plan). A lot of the willpower I have gets used on making time for the gym to be honest. It seems to work for me.
Food wise I’ll start cutting out things I know don’t do me any good eg chocolate from the start of January. Easier if it’s not around and I purposely avoid the aisles when I go shopping. I’ll set myself a challenge of not eating any chocolate, for example, for a week. Then I’ll see if I can not eat any sweet treats at all for a fortnight etc.
Exercise wise I set small goals. In the past that’s been anything from gradually increasing how many lengths I can swim in 30 minutes to increasing using heavier weights for certain exercises/ starting a new workout plan.
By mid-January I’ll look to see if I can be stricter about meals during the week.
Around mid-February I’ll be a bit stricter on weekend meals too. I mentioned above my one constant treat when I first lost the weight was still having a takeaway on a Saturday. I still do this now. By middle of February or certainly start of “Lent” I’ll stop ordering chips with the takeaway curry and just have a curry and rice. Saturday would usually be the one day a week I’d eat chips.
Good luck!