I recently read that the average holiday weight gain every year is seven pounds. I thought for sure that this couldn't be true because by this reasoning I'm 27 years old. Just by going by my added holiday weight I should weight 189 pounds. Gladly I don't. By the time I'm looking for the best wrinkle treatments I want to weigh close to the same as I do now and I won't pumpkin pie get in my way.
So I went on a search for the truth and found a lot of people quoting the random number 7 or 5-10 pounds. This 2007 article in the NY times says that the average holiday weight gain is really only one pound on average. However, if you are already overweight you are more likely to gain five pounds during the holidays. So if you average it out, you really might not be the one gaining weight on the holidays.
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