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Friday, March 7, 2008

Holiday Survival For Us Fitness Nuts

Holiday survival? Yup, it’s that time of year when everyone is looking for the latest tips and tricks on how to survive the holiday season without adding another six to ten pounds before January turns the corner.

It seems like we want to be reminded of the obvious this time of year. What’s the best diet, who is doing what in Hollywood and which ab machine on TV will turn me into the next super model? In truth, every year around this time we tighten up our belts and start looking for answers to why we don’t fit into the same size cloths we did in high school or before the kids or before that “tragic life circumstance” that made us gain 15 pounds.

The thing is it’s none of the above. We gain weight because we don’t have activity levels that equal our eating levels.

The real deal is that we don’t need to find any new tricks or angles. Keep your cash in your pocket. You can’t pay for results. The basics have been pretty much figured out over the last 50 years of health and fitness. What we need to do is get control of ourselves and our emotions. We need to stop looking to outside sources for reasons to treat our bodies and therefore our minds better and realize that temporary satisfaction is just that. Temporary. Continue Reading »

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