Do you want to be the Pudding or the Fairy this Christmas?

It’s that time of the year again. Time to forget you’re dieting, time to ignore the diet book, time to eat all those delicious little extras that mean so much - on your waist, your bust, your hips, your thighs!!!

Why do we lose all reason at this time of the year?
Why do we think we can eat everything in sight
and it won’t affect our weight?

Yes, we know it only comes once a year, thank goodness, but do we really have to make it last from the second week in December to about the 4th January! Parties, meals out with friends, buffet dances, office lunches and drinks, you name the food and we consume it! The lights are flashing, alarm bells are ringing, and do we listen - Oh No! We carry on cramming that sausage roll or pork pie into our mouths just as fast as we can.

It’s still a while to the big day and already that waist band feels just a little tighter than the last time we wore the skirt. Is it our imagination or are the buttons bursting open on our blouse? What sort of dress did you promise yourself this Christmas, a slinky little number in red? If you carry on eating like it’s going out of fashion what sort of dress do you think you’ll end up wearing? A little black dress or a very large black sack!

Please remember how hard you have tried to lose weight over the last few weeks or months. Please don’t spoil it now. A taste on the lips, inches on the hips. If you put on that extra half stone in the run up to Christmas Day, you’ll feel miserable and depressed. Don’t give up now, picture yourself in that special dress.

Fairy Advice!
We know you’ll eat extra calories over Christmas Day and Boxing Day, everyone indulges themselves. However Christmas needn’t last for three weeks. Be careful when you have meals out and stick to what you know you can have on your diet. If you must have a glass of wine with your meal make sure it’s out of your treats. Only go up to the buffet table once. Avoid the pastry items, have lots of salad and rice dishes, a piece of chicken without the skin, or slice of ham. Food that won’t spoil your weigh-in. Leave the puddings and gateaux on the table and get dancing. That will be a good way to burn off those extra calories. If you need to pretend that you’re having an alcoholic drink have a low-cal tonic with ice and a slice of lemon or a wine and tonic spritzer. These types of drinks will last much longer. Try to avoid all the crisps, nuts, peanuts and party nibbles around at this time of the year. If you can’t resist them, don’t buy them. There will be so many other things that the children can and will eat. They probably won’t notice that you haven’t bought any peanuts!

Enjoy yourselves and get back to your healthy eating plan just as soon as you can. Christmas and Boxing Day last for 48 hours, not three weeks!