Several years ago, the fitness center that I belonged to held a Maintain, Don’t Gain challenge. We weighed in a day or two before Thanksgiving and then again, after New Year’s. We won a t-shirt if our ending weight was the same or less than the beginning weight.
It helped me stay focused on what was important to me during that holiday season, and I think I even lost a couple pounds. That experience inspired my new Maintain Dont Gain program , which begins on Sunday.
Instead of all the sacrifice, all the doing without, all the dessert skipping, gone in a month-long blur of holiday parties, family gatherings and festive food frenzies, this year do something different: no dieting, no depressing sacrifices, just common sense, motivation and fun.
