Ep 98- How to Evaluate Your Eating Habits from 2025

December 25, 2025

Before you set another goal for 2026, you need to understand the eating patterns you repeated all year.

Today I’m going to teach you…

• Why you continue to not hit your eating, health, and weight goals year after year

• How to eliminate any shame about where your eating habits are right now

• 6 powerful questions to help you learn from your past year of eating

Before Setting New Goals

It’s important to pause and look at the eating patterns you repeated throughout 2025. Most people skip this step and jump straight into new goals, which is why the same struggles with food tend to repeat year after year.

Evaluating your eating habits helps you understand what actually happened, instead of guessing why things didn’t change. Without this reflection, January often becomes another reset that starts strong but fades quickly.

Why Evaluating Your Eating Habits Matters

This time of year is powerful because it allows you to reflect before you plan. When you don’t evaluate your eating habits, you tend to set vague goals like wanting to eat healthier or stop binge eating. Those goals rarely work because they don’t address the patterns that created the problem in the first place.

Looking back gives you clarity, reduces frustration, and helps you create goals that are grounded in reality instead of hope.

This Is Not About Shame or Failure

If evaluating your eating habits brings up guilt or judgment, that’s normal, especially if you’ve dieted before. But this process is not about what you did wrong. It’s about gathering information so you can change what isn’t working.

Where you are right now is neutral. It’s not a personal failure. It’s simply data about your relationship with food.

Shame doesn’t create lasting change. Compassion does.

The Key Questions to Reflect On From 2025

These questions help you learn from the past year so you don’t repeat the same patterns with food again.

• When did eating feel easier this year and why?
  Even if it was brief, there were moments when food felt calmer. Looking at what was different during those times shows you what actually supports your brain and body.

• Where did you grow, even if you don’t see results yet?
  Growth always happens before results. Noticing urges earlier, stopping a binge sooner, or setting boundaries instead of restricting all count.

• What eating or binge patterns showed up repeatedly?
  Everyone has predictable patterns, whether it’s nighttime eating, stress eating, or sugar cravings. Naming them helps you interrupt them.

• What was the biggest lie your brain told you about food?
  Thoughts like “I’ll start tomorrow” or “I already messed up” feel true but keep you stuck. Identifying them weakens their power.

• What did you try this year that didn’t actually work long term?
  Awareness is helpful, but if something hasn’t changed your behavior, it’s important to notice that.

• If next year with food looked exactly like this one, how would that impact your life?
  This question creates clarity and urgency by showing the long term cost of staying stuck.

Turn Insight Into Action With the Worksheet

Reflection alone won’t change your eating habits. You need to write this out so your brain can actually process it instead of spinning in circles.

That’s why I created a guided worksheet to help you work through these questions in a clear, supportive way. It includes space to journal, bonus reflection prompts, and helps you connect the dots between your patterns and what needs to change next.

Even spending 10 to 20 minutes with this worksheet can give you more clarity than another year of starting over.

Download the worksheet and take a compassionate, honest look at your relationship with food in 2025 so you can move into the new year with clarity instead of frustration.