I was so happy today when I saw a pretty blue box of V-Chocolates had been delivered to my office\u2026then I was a LOT LESS happy when I discovered that my two business partners at REES Capital had gotten to the box before I saw it and the two of them had eaten almost all of the toffee and caramels. I quickly confronted them about eating my present to which they responded, \u201cWe were just trying to do you a favor by saving you from all those calories.\u201d GRRRRRRR<\/p>\n
No doubt calories are a huge struggle during the holidays. I LOVE eating holiday goodies\u2026fudge\u2026toffee\u2026Christmas cookies\u2026there are just so many yummy treats around this season! I love everything except gaining holiday weight. They say people gain an average of 7 to 10 pounds during the holiday season and given that I\u2019m a person who eats far too much over the holidays and who is also morally opposed to exercising (kidding\u2026but not really\u2026) I always end up gaining on the high end of that average\u2026 but I still wanted that toffee!<\/p>\n
And clearly my business partners don\u2019t understand the list of helpful holiday diet tips I choose to live by. I’m not sure who originally came up with these tips but I agree with every single one of them:<\/p>\n
Helpful Holiday Diet Tips<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n -If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories<\/p>\n -If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, they cancel each other out<\/p>\n -If you eat standing up, it doesn’t count!<\/p>\n -STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards<\/p>\n -If you eat the food off someone else’s plate, it doesn’t count<\/p>\n -Cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breakage cause calorie leakage<\/p>\n -Food used for medicinal purposes have no calories. This includes: any chocolate used for energy, cheesecake, and Haagen-Daz Ice Cream<\/p>\n -When eating with someone else, calories don’t count if you both eat the same amount<\/p>\n -Movie-related foods are much lower in calories simply because they are a part of the entertainment experience and not part of one’s personal fuel. This includes: Milk Duds, popcorn with butter, Junior Mints, Snickers, and Gummi Bears.<\/p>\n So to my two partners who ate my toffee I would say “It wasn’t doing me a favor because I was going to eat that toffee standing up, therefore, the calories wouldn’t have counted! So you two owe me a replacement box of toffee!!!”\u00a0 #callout<\/p>\n Have a great weekend everyone! Eat some treats and let\u2019s boost that weight gain average together \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was so happy today when I saw a pretty blue box of V-Chocolates had been delivered to my office\u2026then I was a LOT LESS happy when I discovered that my two business partners at REES Capital had gotten to the box before I saw it and the two of them had eaten almost all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,501,500,46,60,63,11546,15775,15770,15768,2548,15774,3055,1951,7899,15773,15765,15771,3733,15772,15767,72,145,81,15769,15766,6706],"class_list":["post-8670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-beautiful","tag-blessings","tag-calories","tag-candy-bar","tag-caramels","tag-christmas-treat","tag-cookies","tag-drink-soda","tag-eat","tag-exercise","tag-fudge","tag-grrrr","tag-holiday-diet-tips","tag-holiday-weight","tag-lose-weight","tag-morally-opposed","tag-ofice","tag-rees-capital","tag-service","tag-smile","tag-toffee","tag-v-chocolates","tag-weight-gain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}