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What To Do About Those Pesky Post-Holiday Pounds
Buy a scale and use it.
I’m surprised there isn’t a horror movie called “Getting on the Scale: The Reckoning”.
I’m not a fan of diets (which don’t work — only behavior modification works). But after a week of eating everything in sight even vaguely related to Christmas (this includes Starbucks sugar bombs in their special Christmas cups because everything is better in a Christmas cup — extra whip), I’m going to need a little…let’s call it, self-discipline.
Step One: Get on the scale every day.
Everything you read tells you not to get on the scale every day.
You know who says that? A thin person.
Thin people also say, “I cut back when my clothes start feeling tight.”
Your clothes give you the gift of 10 extra pounds before they start cutting off your circulation. The next stage after “my clothes feel a little tight” is buying new clothes.
Get on the scale — Every. Single. Day. That’s the only way to know when the barbarians (those sneaky extra pounds) are storming the castle walls… or whatever it is barbarians do.
