Holiday Weight Loss Tips

The holidays have come back again. It is around this time of year that most people gain the most weight. Some may say how can someone gain so much weight from two days out of the year and they are almost a month apart? It might be because of that and the fact that you're not exercising. It could be because of the weather or the fact that this is the busiest time of year. Well, I am a big guy who has lost a waist size in a couple of days during my mid-terms and work without doing much.

I am naturally a lazy person. I am still overweight and far from my goal. I have been for years. I have tried diets and they don't work for me. Exercise is not my favorite thing to do in the world either. But I lose the most weight this time of year. I love the cold, I love the snow, and I love the thing you can do this time of year. I am the most active this time of year, if you haven't guessed already.

Here is how I lost the weight. First and foremost I changed my eating habits. I used to eat light meals and heavy snacks, late at night and then go to sleep. I had to stop that. To help build my metabolism back up to where it need for me to lose a lot of weight as fast as my body can I had to start eating three square meals a day; breakfast, lunch, and dinner with maybe two or three snacks. That stabilized my metabolism quickly. Now I can eat whatever I want but in smaller portions compared to the portions I had before. But most of the time I eat salad, cereal, and soup. It sounds like torture but those foods are high on my favorite foods list. Having even smaller portions of each can make for great snacks. I get all my nutrients for the day while I get to eat my favorite foods. This is what I like to call tricking my body into dieting. I do so by never ever calling it a diet. My body hates that word. Now that my metabolism is where it needs to be it will be easy for me to lose weight while I go through my daily activities.

Next, I take the stairs more and I park my car further away from stores and things of that sort (unless I'm in a hurry). I go to the mall and just aimlessly walk around until something catches my interest. Just little things to keep me moving my feet. Every morning I do a quick work out to (1) wake my body up and (2) get my blood pumping. Other than that I go paintballing, lazertagging, Wii playing and drumming on Guitar Hero or Rock Band, and plying in the snow. If I had the chance I would commute to the slopes to snowboard.

I have tested this method for three years. It works. One year I lost close to twenty pounds in one holiday season. It might not work for some but it definitely works for people like me.