I recently discovered that 90% of people’s weight gain happens during December and then they just struggle to get it off over the rest of the year! CRAZY!
I understand and I totally get it, every year apart from this year I have always been someone that took two weeks completely off.
I would booze most of the days, I would eat as much as I wanted to, I would skip workouts due to hangovers… I looked forward to doing this year too but with the gyms closing new clients starting I ended up working a lot – but I liked it!
During this time of the year there is so much going on there is a build up with the whole stress, the excitement, time off work and once these all climax you are just left with the meat sweats, 2 foot of Toblerone and enough cheese to feed everyone ‘in case’ they all pop around.
We are in limbo and the excitement is dying down a little…
During this time, I have noticed that there are a few consistent barriers that crop up, let me know if you have noticed anything else that happens at this time of the year.
Social – everyone else is doing it. During the festive period it is like a fight at school, no one really wants to watch but no one wants to stop it either…
Environment – everywhere you go there is food, snacks, treats, drink… there is deals and prices that you cannot afford to not buy, adverts that make your mouth water and your partner came off a couple days before you and they have been able to have a couple drinks at night too.
Tradition – any bank holiday in the UK is allocated time to be drinking more than you need but Christmas seems to be the time of year that you eat as much as you can, cook as much as you can and you spend a little more than normal.
But our society has already doubled its spending, calories consumed are nearly doubled and a high percent of us are already eating more than we should so what is different??
In our time, Christmas was about getting together, giving a little, saving up, splashing out a little on all the trimmings but these things either happen too often or we are all too busy now.
The feeders – these people are needing to get some sort of assurance that the box of roses they tanned the night before is alright so bring in another box for you all to share…
I could keep going about this and hand out my conspiracy theories about the food industry, but I will stop myself from putting you off your next meal.
Thanks for reading
Thom