Stop Worrying about How Much Weight You’ll Gain Between Christmas and New Years.

You hear all these stories about X,Y,Z gaining 10lbs last year and Uncle Don is going to tell you how if it wasn’t for this time of year he’d still be at his “playing weight”.

You’ll read all these articles about:

“How to keep off Holiday Weight Gain”

“How Not to Get Fat this Holiday”

“Skip the Cookies and Eat some Carrots”

“Quick Workouts to Keep Christmas Cookies Fatness at Bay”

and other assorted BS.

These are mostly people parroting what they hear and see and the media doing what it does using scare tactics to feed into the over-inflated fears of holiday weight gain.

A local LA Fitness gym’s claim that the “Average American will gain 15 pounds in the next 10 weeks” may be designed to jump-start new year’s resolutions, but 10 Investigates found it’s not even close to accurate.- Noah Pransky, WTSP

Truth is:

Worrying about how much you eat and how little you work out during the next week is like,

Pissing in the Ocean and Worrying about the Rising Tide. 

It’s one week a year.

You CAN’T POSSIBLY DO THAT MUCH DAMAGE to your fitness and physique.

At best you’re going to gain a pound or two of body mass.

If that.

Yeah, the scale will read 4, 5, 10 (if you already have a high body mass) pounds heavier at some point, but unless your pounding grandmas fruitcake 24/7 and washing it down with wine, it’s mostly water weight due to glycogen binding water, water retention from increased sodium and yeah, maybe a tiny bit of fat gain.

But not as much as you think:

Despite our worst fears, the average American really only puts on one pound during the holiday season- Stanford  <—like, the University

You’re bloated.

Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t try to eat right and exercise.

You should.

Those things might just be really important for your body and health overall.

But at the same time,

Life Happens

These are busy times for busy people.

Don’t obsess over that stuff for the next week or so but be mindful…

Eat a salad with your cookies.

Try to get in a workout or two.

Come January 2nd, assuming your hangover is gone, get back on the horse.

Trust me, by then you’ll feel like such a lazy fatazz you’ll be dying to get back into your routine.

Until then, sit on the couch, watch the Go Daddy Dot Com- Big Fat Belly- St. Petersburg- Beach City Classic-KFC lunch box- Shrine Bowl sponsored by the Sunshine coast board of tourism…

And eat the damn cookies, revel in living like the other 90 some percent who don’t give a damn about their health for a few days.

See How Shitty it Feels.