Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, people can expect to gain up to 9 pounds if additional weight.
It's because they did a lot of muscle building workouts, rather they fed their appetites with the fully available foods.
We're talking about the multiple servings at Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving leftovers, the Christmas office party, other function holiday parties, getting together with friends, staying indoors more, the Christmas Eve party, Christmas day party, the days off doing nothing, new years party, new years drinking, and some more days off doing nothing.
What a terrible thing to be doing to our bodies! We are literally heaping junk on top of junk on our bodies and expect to have a newfound ambitious goal to lose it all off in the next month.
Yeah, and my name is Oprah.
You can, however, help maintain your physiological sanity by making decisions today that will keep you motivated for the next month.
I can testify that these past two days have been great.
I started my 31-day challenge yesterday morning and have logged in two GREAT clean eating days with three cardio sessions.
I would not have done this if I didn't start my "31-Day Challenge.
" It was something that I conjured out of thin air, yet it was something I decided to do and am staying accountable to everyone I have told (i.
e.
you, too!).
So think about where your biggest enemy lies in this next month.
Is it that rum cake on Christmas day (where you usually can't stop eating it).
Or is it simply grazing on everything you see at every party you go to? Whatever it is, call it out, look it straight in the eye, decide you will not be subdued by it until next year (next month), and believe it.
Not only that, but tell others about it.
Tell yourself about it every day.
I have made a decision to tell others about this 31-day challenge daily so that it is fresh on my mind, even amidst temptation and late night cravings.
Everything starts in the mind.
All of your spoken words, actions you carried out, and what your eyes see.
I'll even include what you hear, because you can hear and not listen...
:) So if you're ready to avoid the dreaded weight gain this holiday season, take these action steps:

• 1.
  Decide that which is your worst eating habit for the next month
• 2.
  Decide to not have any of it for the next month
• 3.
  Come up with a name for this new decision (i.
  e.
  "31-Day Challenge" works fine)
• 4.
  Tell others about your new decision, but call it by the "special" name so it sounds official and interesting.
  (FYI, I had members at the YMCA want to sign up to the same 31-day challenge that I'm doing, and I told them to visit my blog for more details.
  I can't wait to see them again!)

Until next time, strive to be fit these remaining days of December.
Mark Bojovic, CPT