How do you stay skinny during the holiday season?
Afraid of gaining weight over the next few months? Did you know millions of people have the same concern of gaining weight during the holiday season? Here is where mathematics can get scary! Trick or Treat!
If you gain 3 pounds every holiday season, without losing it back, guess what? In just 5 years you have successfully gained a solid 15 pounds of flabby, unwanted body fat. As you can imagine, we can play with these numbers all day. What if you on average gained 5 pounds every year from the cookies, stuffings, and strudels? What would happen after a quick 20 years? Ho, ho, ho! You may have great difficulty sliding down chimneys. Rudolph!! I'm stuck buddy help!
So it begs the question how do we intelligently combat the strong tradition of holiday season weight gain?
There is something right about celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas the right way. Decorate the house and make it look like a hallmark movie minus the cheesy romance story. Getting to spend quality time with family and friends. Mix in a little football to watch and maybe some chocolate chip cookies. Good for the mind, but can be a little harsh on the ole waistline.
Preparing for the big meal
Gingerbread houses galore, sugar cookies, turkey (protein at least), dressing, potatoes, yams, salad ( LOL, there is a vegan in the family now?), pumpkin spice everything, canned cranberry (who did this?), and mix in all the other yummies and gummies you can conjure up using age-old secret family recipes.
Before you even know what happened you are passed out on the couch, or floor, or in the kitchen and your eye lids feel like a 600 pound deadlift. You snooze off to someone rambling on asking you the awkward family questions: "so what do you do now?" "how old are you now?" etc. So long pal I'd rather pass out from the extreme levels of tryptophan coursing through my veins. Good talk!
The bloated gut usually awakens you and you feel like you swallowed an elephant whole. Life is good. Stay positive! You got this.
You've got a good grasp of the scenario now and I am sure you have lived through this before. Congratulations! What kind of proactive action steps can we take to minimize the waistline damage and still enjoy ourselves?
4 steps to minimize holiday weight gain
Step 1 is non-negotiable. DO NOT by any means be the awkward one claiming "oh I can't eat that because I am on a diet" nonsense. This is the holidays! Man up. Here is a deep, dark secret reserved for the chosen ones (builders only). NOBODY likes the "holier than thou dieter" as if they are too righteous to dig into the pumpkin pie and sugar cookies. Come on dieting Debra you ain't fooling anyone.
Step 2 is my favorite. Plan ahead and use your brain. Have you ever wanted to buy an item or vacation? You set aside a certain amount every week or month and saved up. After your allotted time in budget prison you could purchase your desired target stress free and without racking up your devil card. I call credit cards devil cards. Get over it. Here is the cool thing about this concept. You can do the same thing for your gigantic feast planned for the glorious day. It is reverse psychology. The good stuff. If you know you are going to eat a lot of food on say Saturday. Then simply cut back and eat less Monday through Friday leading up. You are saving up! This weekly approach is what my helps my readers of Lazy Weight Loss have big time success and still have a life.
Step 3 is no excuses play like a champion. As the big day nears, in the days leading up try to move your body as much as possible. Go on lots of walks. Play tennis. Lift weights like a mad man. Smile a lot. Laugh a lot. Walk some more. Play, play, play! This also helps you create a Calorie deficit. Basically, in a nutshell you want to eat less and move more if you want to lose weight. This same action can help you minimize the damage of an upcoming massive holiday meal. You are basically robbing Peter to pay Paul. This allows you to eat all the goodies guilt free.
Step 4 is for the all-in types. Are you the type of person who goes all the way? You don't dabble, you dominate. You don't have hobbies, only mastery. Your discipline is at an all time high. The word "excuse" doesn't exist in your vocabulary. You are a "can do" type person that will stop at nothing to improve. For you I have an option to consider. If you would like to have the perfect blueprint just for you let's work together and build your very own monthly BBB Personalized Plan.
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A powerful summary
There you have 4 steps on how to stay skinnier during the holiday season. Holiday weight gain is no joke. You've seen the math. It can creep up on you and bite pretty hard. It's sneaky like a copperhead. At least rattlers will warn you a little ya know? Life is short so have fun, enjoy the holidays, and implement our steps to help minimize, if not eliminate, weight gain. Stay positive always. You can do this! Anyone that tries to pee in your wheaties is poison. Sneak away, smile BIG and keep building.
-Beau
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