We do not have to eat ourselves to death to enjoy the holidays. I am including myself when I say this.
I gained 2 pounds just from Thanksgiving Day alone. Finally, I had lost a few pounds and presto, faster than the twinkling of an eye I gained two back.
It’s easy to do. I ate generous portions of ham and turkey, along with derby pie (two pieces), oatmeal cake and sweet potato pie. Yum yum, it was so darn good!
To show for my eating frenzy is some added weight and a high blood sugar number the next day. There are consequences to such pleasure!
If I get into my holiday rut of eating peanut butter fudge, cherry candy and every Christmas cookie that comes my way, I am certain to gain 5 pounds and probably more between now and New Year’s Eve. I really don’t want to look at Jan. 1, 2025, with another resolution that includes spending all of 2025 trying to lose all the damage I did in December 2024.
Thus, I have decided to attempt to lose a few pounds in December leading up to Christmas Eve. I’ll probably blow it on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because my wife is a phenomenal cook and everything she makes tastes so good. Most likely on Christmas Day, I’ll gain a pound or two back if I can really lose it. It’s just scary how I’ve lost it so many times but it keeps finding me. There has to be some kind of device that fat has implanted in me because it keeps finding where I am!
You have to decide for yourself. Eat, drink, be merry and regret it in January, or just say to heck with it and get fatter and fatter. If you don’t care, nobody else cares. It’s up to us individually.
Here’s a question for you. Do you not know of any way to celebrate December other than eating like crazy for an entire month? There are alternatives. Try singing Christmas songs or listening to Christmas music. Watch Christmas movies. Send out Christmas cards. Go to a mall somewhere or Walmart and walk for an hour or so three or four times a week. Call people and wish them Merry Christmas. Take some of those goodies to a local nursing home. Take your tree down and put it back up again, anything but eating nonstop.
It’s your life and your one body that God gave to you. I’m not pointing my finger at anybody because I would have four pointing back at me.
Food is a blessed gift from God. So, enjoy your food and let’s give God thanks for every bite because so many people have so little to eat. There’s another idea: share some of your goodies with the homeless.
My hope and prayer is that our December season will be filled with joy. Enjoy it all, but just know that January is right around the corner. How much do you want to have to lose in 2025? How bad do you want to feel on Jan. 1?
It’s so true that life is short and we should enjoy every day. However, shouldn’t we make some effort to try to make this brief life just a few years longer so we can enjoy a few more holidays? Of course, even if you try to eat healthy and exercise you may still die young, but maybe you will die feeling better.
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