I was reading an extremely concerning piece that said that your average Australian will gain between 3.5 and 6Kgs during the December and festive period. With some people (including professional athletes) gaining up to 10KG. This is an enormous amount of weight to gain in just a couple of weeks and the strangest thing is that most don't find the fact that they put on weight weird, they find the fact that anyone would be training and restraining themselves over this period to be weird.
Gluttony and greed is essentially something that has only been around a relatively short space of time and probably really only from the Edwardian times.
Why do we find it acceptable to over indulge over the festive season? Being someone who has done so in the past, I can only say that it may have something to do with human greed and the fact that if it is there, we should eat it. Sometimes it is pure boredom to - what shall we do during the holidays? How about we eat and drink until we explode?
Socialising this festive season around something other than food will go a long way towards keeping your weight down. Keep the portions small, go for walks, go for runs, keep up the swimming or the gym but for heavens sake don't be idl or you will regret it again in January.
Running together (while eating reasonable portions) stride for stride on a life changing ride! -- Sean Muller
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