Best Holiday Advice for Not Packing on Extra Pounds: Ignore Holiday Advice for Not Packing on Extra Pounds

NoDiet-WeightLoss.com advises those trying to watch their weight over the holidays to ignore conventional dieting wisdom. Rather than obsessing about food and intake, NoDiet-WeightLoss.com advises individuals to use the period to count their blessings and reinforce their self-images. All the focus on what people consume only goes to the symptoms of weight gain, not the causes.

Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2007 -- The holiday grinches are working overtime to try and get overweight people to moderate their consumption of food and drink during New Year's celebrations. But NoDiet-WeightLoss.com, a blog dedicated to helping people lose weight without dieting, says "ho, ho, ho" to the well-meaning advice.

"Asking people to obsess about their holiday consumption as a means of getting them to reduce their holiday consumption is akin to asking smokers to spend the holidays thinking about smoking cessation," says Dean Rotbart, founder and editor of NoDiet-WeightLoss.com.

NoDiet-WeightLoss.com believes that the vast majority of diet and exercise advice addresses the symptoms of overeating, not the cause. "Most people don't overeat because they are slobs or lack willpower. They overeat because they find pleasure and comfort in food that they don't find elsewhere," Rotbart says.

Holidays, Rotbart says, are particularly stressful because "they tend to magnify all the disappointments and losses we've accumulated during the year."

"It is a wonderful life and those who are overweight need to embrace the fact more than others," Rotbart believes. "Rather than focus on what you eat -- or don't eat -- holiday revelers should practice counting their many blessings and learning to again feel good about themselves just as they are."

Because NoDiet-WeightLoss.com is a new site, those who want to post their own experiences and suggestions will have to do so in one of two ways. 1.) Comment directly on existing posts. 2.) Or, email Rotbart at dean@youherenow.com and permit him to post for you.