So here you are slim, fit and amazed by the results of your Senior Walking Fitness Programme. You have enjoyed your Mediterranean diet and don’t even miss the high calorie junk food you once ate. You are basking in the knowledge that at long last your diet is good for your heart. Then out of the blue, or very nearly so, along comes Christmas. What to do? How to maintain your fitness and your new found healthy lifestyle?
I will tell you exactly what to do. FORGET IT. Take a break. Then start over again in the New Year. On 1 January (or if you are Scottish 3 January) off you go, walking into the next year with a smile on your face. You will have put on a few pounds, but no matter, you will soon lose them.
You are keeping fit and happy, not fit and miserable, so enjoy Christmas along with everybody else. That’s what I’m going to do.