The biggest mistake over Christmas I try to avoid is letting all the condiments come into my life again, which give me a shortness of breath, a lack of energy, make me irritable and get my sweet tooth back, plus the inevitable weight gain of course. Making myself and you aware of it is half the battle when we all start buying the “party” food etc in for Christmas.
Tomato sauce, mayonnaise (full, half or reduced fat versions), salt, salad “seasoning” products, salad cream, brown sauce, branston pickle, full sugar pasta sauces, anything under party food banner’s wreck my breathing, anything with added sugar in their product (corn syrup etc).
Also the chickens in indian sauces or ”hot and spicy” chickens get me breathing heavy.
I also find if I have too many days of drinking alcohol, my discipline with food goes out the window and my choices become far more questionable! A familiar pattern for you maybe?
So when does the point come when you say “that’s it I’m starting back after Christmas”! The sooner that point is reached, the more weight you are likely to put on over Christmas for sure, and the harder it is to come back strong after Christmas.
Party food for the most part has nothing to do with quality and more to do packaging of low or NO nutrient food up as something you would be “boring” not to go for! Unless you had a trolley full of “party food”, then you are the biggest stick in the mud there’s ever been and you’re not “enjoying” Christmas! The Ken Barlow of Christmas shoppers maybe!!
Personally I would say that there’s nothing more boring that gorging yourself all of December and drinking nearly every day, then complaining about your heartburn, your clothes never fit you anymore and after Christmas, going on YET another diet. This may be the most boring version of Christmas ever? The time everyone rolls their eyes at you because its like Groundhog Day all over again!
Wouldn’t it be far more refreshing and less predictable this year to keep on buying good food this year right up until new year. Don’t buy all that rubbish and “party food” that you throw out anyway after Christmas. A fresher and more energetic version of you is far more appealing to everyone than the complaining, irritable, boring version of you come January? Is that the case or am I over-exaggerating?!!
Keep having your treats over Christmas, you deserve to enjoy of course you do, but you don’t have to totally destroy yourself from now on in and make the start to 2011 totally miserable!
Moderation works as long as you have your basic foundation in place.
“Hot and spicy chickens” get you breathing heavy, eh Keri?
Bit TOO much information there I think !!!!
All jokes aside, you are dead right about “party ” food.
It was 10 years ago this Christmas that, for the first time in my adult life, I did not put weight on over Christmas. I had spent the summer/autumn training with your good self, and felt AMAZING!!
I am not proud that I ended up letting things slip, but that feeling of wellbeing is indelibly printed on my memory.
It keeps me wanting that feeling again, and I am sure it will return, damn sure!!
How’s everyone doing? Let’s get some messages going here, what’s occuring?
Cheers, Deb xx
time to get it going again debs and look forward to helping you when you feel 100% again ,always great to hear your posts!