Diet, Christmas Holidays & the Weight Gain Connection

Diet Holiday Tips - The Mall & To Market, To Market

One of the best AND worse forms of exercise during the holidays is 'the shopping experience'.  Take Dieter Darcy for example....

Dieter Darcy is out and about - dancing and singing to the peppy piped-in holiday music, bartering with over-priced shoppe-keepers, wrestling with fellow holiday shoppers who want the exact thing she wants - and there is only ONE left - and burning calories like there isn't a tomorrow.  Dieter Darcy is doing SO DIET GOOD!  All this walking and wrestling and fidgeting about is great activity.

Whoops - look at the beautiful cookie shop in the north corner of the mall, conveniently located by Santa's stall (i.e. North Pole).  "Ohhhhhh!"  Dieter Darcy oozes out in glee.  She takes a good gander at the cute little Pecan Thimbles displayed on the sample tray. She thinks, "Hum....a thimble is tiny and so are these cookies. And the nice shoppe keeper has set out samples.  So, yes - I'll have one, but only one.  After all, I am on a diet and I am being Diet Good."

CHA CHING, CHA CHING - 200 calories

"Oh, and look!  A new flavor of eggnog called Grandma's Homemade Nog!  How....how quaint and exotic," she again oozes out in glee.  "I'll try a small 1/2 cup sample."  (Women never ever never resist anything exotic.)

CHA CHING, CHA CHING - 275 calories for that teensy smidgeon of nog!

"Oh la la," giggles Dieter Darcy.  "That was so rich, so creamy.  I best steer away from that before I look like a steer - because if I don't, I might get myself in Diet Trouble with a capital 'T'!"

Dieter Darcy is suddenly startled as one of Santa's Helpers unexpectedly greets her with, "Meeerrrrryyyy  Christmas!" after which, he crams something hard and long into her unsuspecting hand, then he skips off to find the next unsuspected shopper.  Dieter Darcy glances at the long, hard object that looks like a tiny barber pole.  "Oh my!  A yummy candy cane.  Just what I need to get the 'taste of nog' out of my mouth. And I know that the candy cane is fat free, so it won't hurt my diet."

CHA CHING, CHA CHING - 150 calories for that fat-free object.

Dieter Darcy makes her way to the next retail shoppe, feeling great because she just passed the Cinnamon Roll House.  She thinks, "I am so Diet Good!  I just passed up the Cinnamon Roll House, i.e. another roll on my thigh if I had not resisted!" she giggles with glee. (Don't you just love innocence?)

Two hours and a throbbing foot-bunion later, Dieter Darcy makes her way to the last shoppe that she had planned to visit in the mall.  She must have walked at least five miles shopping today.

(Actually, 1 mile.)

She had saved the best shoppe for last - the chocolate shoppe.  As she strolled wide-eyed through the chocolate-covered isles, the smell of chocolate was wafting through her flared nostrils.  Samples here, samples there, with a posted sign that read, "Recent scientific research has determined that dark chocolate can be beneficial to your health. So have a sample of our darkest chocolate and coincidentally our best seller, 'Sinbad's SinGood DARK Chocolate Treasures'.  Filled with nuts too, for that added additional health benefit!"

"Oh wow - HEALTHY chocolate," Dieter Darcy bleats, sounding just like a little lost Diet Sheep.  "I'll have one of these, and oh - more dark chocolate over there.  So tiny, they won't hurt my diet one teensy bit!"

CHA CHING!!!!  CHA CHING!!!!!  500 calories - and it appears that Dieter Darcy's Diet Abacus is indeed broken at this point.

So we can all learn from Dieter Darcy's Dangerous Diet Disaster (5 red D's) that it's great to get out and about to get in some activity BUT resist the samples with all your Diet Might! 

 

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