Crept up on you did it? It was the Turkey's fault was it? Come off it, you went over the top at Christmas and there's no other excuse! Let's just hope you stick to this year's New Year's resolution.
Unfortunately I fall under this guilty category of chubsters myself. It wasn't until I was quaffing my 3rd helping of Christmas pork that a member of my outspoken family stated that I had become "festively plump".
I've battled with weight for as long as I can remember. I struggled with it a lot as a teen, finding it almost impossible to shift the excess padding until my late teens when it started to drop off. I became quite trim and healthy and even physically fit for a change. However, since then it has come and gone, usually depending on the time of year, and it tends to yoyo, making clothing an absolute nightmare.
Like most people during the winter I become less active, and the cold weather tends to make one crave food as some sort of warming comfort, not forgetting mother's monstrous Christmas snacks! This year's showing of The Great Escape was more or less completely drowned out by the rustling of packets and the clanking of plates, needless to say I brought an extra 2 inches around the waste into the new year.
I generally don't diet as a rule, I just wait for nature to take its course, and when the warmer months come around I know it will slip away. But I'm making a bigger effort this year, trying a few new things to speed up the process, as I'm sure millions of people all over the globe are.
The internet is a great place to start, with a massive resource of nutritional information and exercises to try out. But I think if you have the commitment and you're willing to give it a real go then why not try entering a program?
Doing it solo is all well and good if you've got the head for it. But I tend to be quite undisciplined, and old habits die hard. When you have the guidance of a weight loss program it makes it all the more easier for people like me. With set menus, timing, exercises and general hints & tips it's a much smaller headache to drop the pounds. Of course there's usually a fee, but it's usually quite a fair price and in my opinion it's definitely worth it.
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