What to do if you overdo

By inkblot
December 29, 2004

There are some tricks to avoid holiday overindulgence

“Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation”

- Ben Franklin

I have this friend, who will remain nameless. Let’s just say that I know her very well. Her problem is that, if the food is there, she eats it. At holiday parties she hovers around the food table; she bakes cookies for friends and gives them the half that remains; on Christmas Day she looks forward to the dinner more than the present opening. Then on Jan. 1 she makes the resolution to lose the 10 pounds she gained over the holidays. Do you know anyone like that?

Holly Scherer, registered dietitian with MFit, part of the University of Michigan Health System, knows that the holidays are especially hard for people to use restraint. “We get barraged with parties and food brought in at work. The food is usually high in calories and sugar. It is the kind of food that is difficult not to eat it.”

But we know we shouldn’t. We know the Christmas cookies, the fruitcakes and slabs of ham and roast beef are full of fat, sodium, calories and sugar. But we do it, anyway.

Farther down in the article is mention of our founding father here at PsychCentral, Dr. John Grohol, and a quote from another book which he authored! (Correct me if I am wrong, DocJohn, as I am getting my information from this article. A search of this site turns up a similar article by you, but mentions a different book by a different author?)