Perryman Nutrition Column: Be Merry Without Adding Extra Pounds
The following column is written by Shirley Perryman, an Extension specialist in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. The department is part of the College of Applied Human Sciences at Colorado State University.FORT COLLINS - Will you greet January feeling good about how you traversed the round of holiday parties and traditions, or will you be frantically trying to get those extra pounds off in a hurry?
If you wait until January to deal with holiday weight gain, you will likely feel frustrated and wonder where to begin; instead, you can put strategies in place now.
You will invariably come face-to-face with a cascade of diet plans in the New Year. My advice to people is always to think about their weight loss strategy as doing things differently and not as a diet – “diet” is a four-letter-word, in my book. Instead of dieting, you are simply making choices. That’s much less formidable, don’t you think?
They might have been located at the beginning or end of a dirt trail traversed by ox cart, or near a canal on which travellers arrived by boat to take connecting trains. Surrounding the station would be hotels and other accommodation,
"Shaun White [the Olympic gold-medallist snowboarder] was here a few years ago and rode the chutes from the top over and over," said Ken McBride, our companion from the tourist board. In our imaginations, it sounded like Japan's answer to La Grave.