Article by Anne Elliott
What is Christmas to you? A time of festive jollity, family and friends, presents under the tree and wall to wall parties? Or perhaps it’s preparation stress, concern about the cost, overindulgent rich foods, wall to wall television and expanding waistlines. As ever reality is usually somewhere in the middle.
However, for many people who have done their best to stay active and worked hard to maintain a healthy weight, Christmas can be a terrifying tunnel of concern that you will undo all the good of the previous 12 months, after all everything is stacked against you; time pressures mean you can’t get to the gym or exercise class, guests and family arriving mean you have to be the hostess with the most-est, an onslaught...