For many of us, once December 1st arrives, all diet and exercise bets are off ? stringent 
calorie control is quickly replaced with the chosen mindset or perhaps excuse that calories do not count during the festive season. If the holiday period lasted just a few days, this would pose no issue when it comes to weight control ? while we may gain a kg it could just as quickly be worked off in a few extra gym sessions and an active Summer. The issue though for many of us is that Christmas tends to extend to a 4-6 week, with parties beginning late November and continuing through to mid-January. With research suggesting that adults can gain as much as 2kg over the Christmas period, here is your best guide to using the holiday period to work for you rather than against you when it comes to weight control.
It may surprise you to hear that it is mindset we approach our diet and exercise commitment with that determines the control we keep over our weight, holiday period or not. If we make a mental commitment to not be gaining weight; to enjoy one meal off rather than 4 weeks? worth of meals, to exercise every day no matter what and to compensate with a few days of lighter eating when we have overdone the calories, far fewer of us would have weight issues at all. On the other hand, if we give ourselves permission to overeat; to binge rather than enjoy special high calorie treats, to skip the gym for no other reason than laziness, to approach each diet decision we an ?on? or ?off? a diet approach, then constant cycles of gaining some weight and then working unsustainably hard to get it off will be your life weight story.
The best advice I can give you if this food or exercise behavioural pattern sounds familiar, is to simply stop. Acknowledge that these have been patterns of your past and commit to a more rational approach this Christmas, and one that is also conducive to weight control. Accept that weight control comes via daily food and exercise decisions that add up to the weight we maintain long term. Aim for these lifestyle decisions to be largely good ones, and for occasions in which these decisions may not be the best, for whatever reason ? a few drinks at a Christmas party, a special dessert, your favourite Christmas sweet treats, simply get back on track with your very next decision. This means eating a little less when you have overdone things, doing a little more time at the gym and learning to take responsibility for your own food and exercise decisions on a daily basis ? Christmas or not.
Once this commitment is made, the next most powerful habit you can adopt over the next 4-6 weeks, especially if you have worked hard this year to get your weight under control already, is to keep weighing yourself, at least once each week. Checking your weight on a regular basis is the easiest way you can keep an eye on what is going on, which also allows you to cut back should you start to see the numbers creeping up. So powerful is regularly weighing simply because as we all know, when it comes to weight control, prevention is so much easier than the work required to get it off once it has arrived.
Reference: http://bodyscienceblog.com.au/2012/general/surviving-the-party-season-with-your-weight-intact/
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