Winning the Holiday Weight Loss Battle

I began battling my weight problem two months ago. Yes, my weight problem actually started years ago. But, I hadn't started battling it yet until I finally made up my mind.

I was mentally charged to lose the weight and take it off for good. What I didn't think through were the days ahead. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are that lethal combination of days that make a weight loss program very difficult.

Halloween Trick or Treating brings home a plethora of candies and assorted goods that are so hard to deny yourself. But, I have a daughter. Trick or Treating is mandatory. One month later almost to the day comes a great eating day that has no mercy.

Thanksgiving is the day of gorging yourself to death and sitting miserably on the couch. The day was actually designed for overeating. Not only are you miserable because you just ate more food than you normally eat in a week, but you know you just ruined your diet. You gained more weight in that one day than you lost in the last couple of months working on your diet.

Now, comes Christmas up ahead. That's not just a day of eating. That's an entire month. Everywhere you go, there's a feast all month long because people are trying to have you visit for Christmas and get you out of the way before the day of Christmas finally comes. People want to spend Christmas with their families, so they get their friends to the house earlier in the month and fatten everyone up just to be able to say they thought of you over the holidays.

If you're not prepared to meet with the holiday season, you can feel the urge to quit your diet and waste still more time battling your weight until you reach that picture you have of yourself in your mind. So, get ready. You have to be mentally prepared and you have to make sure your body doesn't get confused.