Jane and I both gained back 6 lbs, over the 3 days of Christmas, and have one week to trim up before New Year’s. I’ve observed that there’s weight gain, and then there’s ‘binge weight gain’, —and if you don’t let B turn into A by going ahead with the binge, you can get away with it. <\/p>\n
Each of us gained 6 lbs. We went back to virtue on Monday: Wednesday morning and we were back down 2 lbs. By Thursday we should be down another 1 lb. By Friday, we have another two-day binge on spaghetti, Russian Tea Cakes (beg Jane for THAT recipe—melt in your mouth little balls of sweet buttery nuttiness) and fresh hot bread and butter with Champagne…<\/p>\n
That’ll probably put on 2-3 lbs, and THEN we start the long haul into spring. We’ll be on the straight and narrow for months, and peel off the ‘soft’ 6 lbs, —by my rule, the second 3 of that will be much harder, by reason of having let it ‘sit’ unlost for a week—and once we’re both into the good zone again (Jane is one inch shorter than I am, and I’m a consistent about 10 lbs heavier than she is when we’re both in the good zone)—<\/p>\n