We have answers!

The Holidays are over. All that food and drink. All that candy and cake. You fear the bathroom scale. You even throw a towel over it to hide this device of sheer terror. You know, though, you must get a reading off the scale. You do the pinch-flab test, but you need more than that. You need a weight reading. Do you think you could have your other half or roommate or friend get on the scale and you take their weight reading as yours. A psychic weight, so to speak. Hell no!

You get on the scale — do or die — you see your current new year weight and you almost die. Good Gawk Almighty! You’ve got do something and do it now!

You call around to the gyms in your area and go on a introductory tour of one. Treadmills, bikes, reclining bikes, speed bikes, stepping machines, ab machines, then the programmed machines, the weight lifting room. Hard work. Very hard work.

You don’t sign up for anything and leave in a cold sweat. There gotta be some easy way to lose weight. There is! And here it is:

When you go to use the elevator, push the button ten times.

When you need to open a difficult bag of chips or peanuts, don’t use scissors or a knife to open the bag. Struggle with it until it pops open.

When brushing your teeth, switch hands and exercise your left hand instead.

Lie on the floor before the TV and without a pillow, lift your head to watch the set. Do for 5 minutes.

Put your cell phone upstairs, then when it rings, you don’t answer it. The worry about who called will take off some excess weight.

Put your pants on backwards and walk around for 10 minutes.

When at the mall, find the directory with its map and ‘You Are Here’ and trace with your finger along the different paths and imagine yourself running them. Losing weight is all in the mind.

The above are just a few ways to lose weight the easy way. Make sure you exercise every day.

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