Hedberg: Battling Bulge At Christmas

This is the time of year people develop a heightened awareness of their daily intake of calories. Not to say people don’t worry about that every other day of the year as well. We’re like day traders on the New York Stock Exchange when it comes to keeping track of the calories we consume and burn. We count how many we take in and then we make deals to exchange them for equal amounts of exercise. We’re obsessed. We eat, we weigh, we feel guilty, we purge and then we go have a steak and a bottle of wine to celebrate our liberated consciences. But around the holidays people are especially calorie conscious, partly because we easily could consume a month’s worth of calories in one meal. And since we are trying to fit into a special outfit for the holiday parties, eating a month’s worth of calories at one setting is not a really good idea/ Kathy Hedberg , Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: What’s your secret for keeping weight off during the hoidays?