Quattro’s 90-Day Challenge, Day 87, 11/26/09
Good News for Holiday Dieters
Today is Thanksgiving! Tomorrow is the official start of the Christmas season. During this time of the year, many people start worrying about putting on extra pounds with all the goodies that are around. If you are one of these weight-conscious people, I have some good news. You don’t have to worry. In fact, you can easily loose pounds during this time of year. I’m here to reveal a secret that weight loss companies like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers don’t want you to know. And that secret is that Christmas calories don’t count!
It may hard to believe at first, but through the magic of Christmas, Christmas calories really don’t count. Say you stop at Jack in the Box for lunch while you are doing your Christmas shipping. You have a Jumbo Jack fries and an eggnog shake. You may feel guilty about your extra calorie intake, but you guilt is probably misplaced. The burger and fries will make you fat, but the countable calories from the eggnog shake equals zero – that’s because it’s a Christmas food. So if you want to feel satisfied with your lunch and not add to your calorie intake, skip the burger and fries and have two eggnog shakes!
So here’s a simple weight loss plan for the holiday season: for breakfast, have some scrambled eggs and a bowel of Christmas Crunch. We already covered lunch at Jack in the Box. And for dinner, have a nice soup or salad, then as many Christmas cookies and pies as you want! You can also have cheese spreads with crackers, beef sticks and cheese logs. Eat all you want because they don’t count! The Swill Colony catalog is full of foods that don’t count.
There is one danger I must warn you about. A few people have taken it too far and have eaten nothing but Christmas food. In doing this, you can actually starve to death because you are not taking in any calories that do count. And you may not notice because calories that don’t count will still leave you will feeling satisfied. So just like any other diet plan, moderation is the key.
So how can this plan help you control your weight during the rest of the year? Simple, just stock up on tins of Christmas cookies and popcorn, keep some Christmas pies in the freezer, and have some candy canes and truffles in your cupboard. Then during the year, when you start to feel a little but chunky, work those into your regular diet. I’d mention fruit cake, but nobody ever eats those.
So here’s to a slimmer you by 2010.
Sorry Jenny Craig,
Dennis Cherry
