Description: Exuberance in Life, Fitness and Wellbeing
Our active summer ends with Labor Day, the days get shorter and colder and before soon, the ghoulies arrive with their heavy bags of sweet treats to lull us into Holiday bliss until January. We relax in our layered protected casing of a cocoon yet know that Memorial Day is inevitable.
While the studies differ about how much weight we will gain from October until January with some saying 1 lb. and others quoting 7-10 lbs., we all know that, yes – weight gain of some poundage is a ‘thing’ during the holiday season. (Joy, joy…)
Tips and Tricks fly around the internet and in the media on ways to combat this phenomenon. Yes, it is very good advice to watch your portion sizes and mindless ‘grazing’, don’t arrive to a party hungry, cap dessert and sweet intake, limit alcoholic calories, don’t stress eat, drink plenty of water. All these things we ‘do’ exhaustively to ward off unwanted calories from sticking around, yet the key factor to combating weight gain, and conversely facilitating weight loss over the holidays and beyond, reside