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Everyone Else Had a Great Holiday and All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt
While it's certainly an admirable goal to try not to gain weight over the holidays... I think I would recommend focusing on something a little more positive like staying on your exercise schedule during the hectic holiday season.
I just don't like the idea of people (mainly women) worrying so much about what they are eating and the number on the scale that they feel deprived or punished somehow over the holidays. Granted, the joy of the holidays isn't altogether about the food and beverages but about helping those less fortunate and also surrounding yourselves with the people you love and who love you.
Well, it was after our Christmas lunch and my mom, sisters and I were in the kitchen cleaning up and my sister said, "I'm eating today but I'm not eating tomorrow." She proceeded to explain that her exercise program that she belongs to (which shall remain nameless) has a holiday incentive program going for not gaining any weight over the holidays. They weighed her before the holidays and they will weigh her after the holidays.
She said she now has to lose 5 pounds in a week (apparently before the final weigh in). This is what these programs can do to women everywhere. It puts them in a place where they are resorting to quick weight loss. If you are losing more than 2 pounds in a week, you are losing something other than body fat such as water weight and possibly muscle tissue. I could just picture all these well-intentioned wonderful people not having their favorite holiday dessert while they watched everyone else enjoy it, or skipping breakfast even though they are really hungry so they could feel "okay" eating lunch, or not eating at all the days after Christmas, and weighing themselves every day and becoming totally depressed if their weight went up a pound or two.
"And anyone who doesn't gain any weight, gets a T-shirt!" my sister explained. To which I answered, "Does the T-shirt say, THIS HOLIDAY SUCKED!"
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I just don't like the idea of people (mainly women) worrying so much about what they are eating and the number on the scale that they feel deprived or punished somehow over the holidays. Granted, the joy of the holidays isn't altogether about the food and beverages but about helping those less fortunate and also surrounding yourselves with the people you love and who love you.
Well, it was after our Christmas lunch and my mom, sisters and I were in the kitchen cleaning up and my sister said, "I'm eating today but I'm not eating tomorrow." She proceeded to explain that her exercise program that she belongs to (which shall remain nameless) has a holiday incentive program going for not gaining any weight over the holidays. They weighed her before the holidays and they will weigh her after the holidays.
She said she now has to lose 5 pounds in a week (apparently before the final weigh in). This is what these programs can do to women everywhere. It puts them in a place where they are resorting to quick weight loss. If you are losing more than 2 pounds in a week, you are losing something other than body fat such as water weight and possibly muscle tissue. I could just picture all these well-intentioned wonderful people not having their favorite holiday dessert while they watched everyone else enjoy it, or skipping breakfast even though they are really hungry so they could feel "okay" eating lunch, or not eating at all the days after Christmas, and weighing themselves every day and becoming totally depressed if their weight went up a pound or two.
"And anyone who doesn't gain any weight, gets a T-shirt!" my sister explained. To which I answered, "Does the T-shirt say, THIS HOLIDAY SUCKED!"
Related Topics:
Technorati tags: holiday, diet, fitness
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