Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!
It's the Holidays! If you're like EVERYONE, yesterday you feasted on healthy things like turkey and vegetables and unhealthy things like pie, ice cream, rolls, whipped cream, candy and everything in between. The guilt you experienced is likely directly related to your scale and your clothing size and indirectly related to the relative you like least because she's always skinnier than you and says no to fabulous desserts, walks away and makes it look easy!! Last night you swore your gluttony would not continue through the weekend and undaunted you poured your first cup of coffee with fierce resolve. It really was the refrigerator's fault... the weakening, the backsliding, the ultimate undoing but boy that pie sure tasted good for breakfast!!! Mine was apple, with two kinds of ice cream and whipped cream on top. Is this really about dieting? You have to wonder don't you?
Here's the deal. I am a successful dieter, meaning I once had a lot of weight to lose, I lost it and I've kept it off - for more than six years! I'm also a health professional so I know a bit about biology and what goes on under the covers so to speak. Like everyone else I've ever known, I've struggled with various weight issues through my teen years, into my child bearing years and on through my mid life when I finally got it right. Along the way I learned a lot about what to do and what not to do and it's that I hope will help someone else succeed because it sure is great when you lose weight and keep it off. And yes, there is pie and ice cream in your future but there's a lot of hard work first, no lie. If you were looking for magic there are plenty of "lose 16 pounds in five days" diet sites out there. Wanna get into that holiday dress? You'll need to look elsewhere. This is the wrong place for you.
If you've got 5 - 10 lbs. to lose you can't kid me. You know how to eat right and balance your intake or do most of the time so unless it's been 5-10 lbs. for 20 or 30 years I probably can't help you. More than 15 - 100, I think you're in the right place but you'll have to decide if it's what you really want. If you have more than that to lose you have serious weight issues, you likely also have health issues and while everything I'll try to share here may help you, it's very likely you need help that's interactive and includes face to face assistance. TRUTH # 1 - Until the day you decide that you really want to lose weight and keep it off, no diet on any website, in any kitchen, designed by any nutritionist or ordered by any physician will help you. You and only you are in control of your weight and that's the honest truth. It doesn't mean you have to journey alone.
So what' s the " Holiday Preparation diet" anyway? Well this is the diet you're going to use to prepare you to undertake your last diet and your first truly successful weight management strategy. To help you like EVERYONE else your real diet will need to start on January 1st just in time for your annual New Year's Resolution to lose weight. In the meantime between now and then there will be parties, family gatherings, goodies in the office, and well meaning friends bringing you treats. Or maybe your downfall includes those grocery store end cap displays all tempting your tastebuds and filling your nostrils with that delightfully seductive smell of sugar and spice and everything nice...not to mention, gooey, chocolaty and oh so buttery rich. My advice to you is simple. Finish your leftovers, enjoy your friends and relatives, eat what you love and enjoy it but check back here. I'll try to keep your December full of tips to prepare you for what's coming January 1. Understand that your main work until year's end is to decide if you really want to lose weight next year. I'll give you until December 1st to let it percolate in your brain. By then if you think you want to consider a serious effort you'll check back in through December and get ready. On December 31st you'll need to make a real commitment to saying goodbye to your old ways and I'll do my best to help. It really is up to you. In the meantime there's a glass of wine with my name on it and I bet it would go really well with some of those leftovers! Gobble, gobble...'til next time.
HV13
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