Cam Wallace

How to Enjoy December Without Piling it on

You’ve got 101 things lined up and no plan. Here’s the game plan.

December’s fixtures

  • Works do (A)
  • Christmas market (A)
  • Christmas Eve (A)
  • Your mum’s roast (A)
  • Boxing Day (H)
  • Hogmanay (A)
  • New Year’s Day (H)

I’ve been in the position of gaining a stone or two over Christmas and spending the first few months of the new year trying to undo it all.

So this is the exact process I use with my 1-2-1 guys. Do your future self a favour, follow the guide, and save yourself a tonne of work next year.

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What’s in the guide

Every December a lot of folk ask what’s the point, pile it on and spend the first few months of the year trying to get back to where they are right now. That sounds shite, so don’t do it.

  1. Find your number.

    Work out your maintenance calories, the number you can eat a day without gaining or losing any body fat.

  2. Bank it.

    Save a set amount a day and spend it on the day you’ve got something on. Exactly what it says on the tin.

  3. Handle the last-minute stuff.

    Plans crop up. Here’s how to reverse the banking and even out the rest of your week.

  4. Track a meal out.

    From Nando’s to wee Davey’s pub, when you can’t exactly go into the kitchen and scan the barcodes.

  5. Survive the Christmas market.

    You won’t find ‘Big German Sausage’ on your tracking app, so here's what to do instead.

  6. Deal with the chippy.

    Your local Chinese or chip shop ain’t on the app either. There’s a way round that as well.

  7. Keep things in check.

    Simple guidelines for socials, the gym, your steps and the bevvy.

  8. Get through the big days.

    Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day go untracked. Here’s how to set yourself up for them.

A Christmas market stall at nightA burger and chips laid outA chip shop tea and a Chinese takeawayDrinks on the bar at a Christmas night out

The calorie bank

Tap the day you’ve got something on. That’s 2,300 a day at maintenance, with 300 banked on the other six days. As long as the weekly total’s the same, you’ve got nothing to worry about.

6 days at 2,000, plus 1 day at 4,10016,100

Plus the planner

Stick your details in and it works out your maintenance and weekly calories. Pick the days you’ve got something on, and it gives you your calories for each day. Went over on an unplanned night out? Put that in and it evens out the rest of your week.

Cam’s 1-2-1 clients

The same process I use with my 1-2-1 guys, producing results like this time and time again.

One of Cam’s 1-2-1 clients, before and after
Another of Cam’s 1-2-1 clients, before and after
A third of Cam’s 1-2-1 clients, before and after

Do your future self a favour

Follow the guide, and save yourself a tonne of work next year. Get the guide and planner now.