Holiday Weight Gain

My friend Maryanne and I dieted before the holidays in full anticipation of stuffing ourselves silly over several days. We started back in November with the South Beach diet, suffering by cutting out carbs and sugars. This ended abruptly almost 2 weeks later with an argument over cup cake consumption. She totally cheated. I felt so betrayed.

Anyway, I am a firm believer in gorging yourself at Christmas time. With a hearty cry of "First World Yo!" I demand seconds of stuffing and turkey and consume gravy as if it were a beverage! As you may or may not have noticed I'm an all-or-nothing kind of girl. If I diet, I diet. If I gorge I gorge. Moderation is for those who love their livers and kidneys, and I have no love to spare for my internal organs.


When I worked in a movie theatre it always blew my mind how contradictory people would be. They would order the extra large popcorn with extra butter layered throughout to be washed down with a diet coke. The irony of this consistently slapped me in the face. Did people honestly think that they cancelled each other out?

I bring this up because while I was at Starbucks today (I'm sorry my Barista Pals! I was desperate! I wasn't in my own mind!) I ordered a delicious delicious Non-Fat Peppermint Mocha. What blew my mind is that they still asked me if I wanted whip cream on it. When I asked them about it they said that's how people usually like it. Non-fat with whip. Contradictory Craziness. But because it is the holidays I'm willing to forgive this wishy washyness. After the new year...there will be no tolerance.

This holiday season I hope everyone takes the opportunity to enjoy what they have. MC y'all!