Last night, the world’s sexiest women flaunted their flawless bodies on the runway at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Miami, but staying fit and eating healthy isn’t easy or cheap; payday loans can help you afford a healthy lifestyle. It’s only a week after Thanksgiving, and chances are, you like many others, have started to pack on the holiday pounds and feel guilty for doing so. Watching the tiny, taught bodies of Victoria’s Secret models like Heidi Klum and Adriana Lima in her million-dollar bra only makes your guilt and your self-esteem worse. Of course, no matter how much you work out or how healthy you eat, you will never look like a long-legged Victoria’s Secret Angel. However, exercise and a healthy diet are extremely important. Affording every day expenses during the holidays is already tough, but affording to eat right and stay fit can be even more challenging.
Your Perfect Body
Supermodel Marisa Miller
Most models claim that they don’t exercise or eat healthy food. For some models, this is true, and for others, it is not. The models from the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, however, say that they work out regularly and adhere to a strict diet weeks before the show. Don’t worry that viewers saw Marisa Miller chowing down on a Krispy Kreme backstage in the hair and makeup room. Regardless, it is undeniable that models were born beautiful and born thin. You too, were born beautiful and born with a certain body type. You may not be able to strut your stuff on the catwalk or change your body type, but there are steps you can take to achieve your perfect body.
The Seasonal Seven
The average weight gain between Thanksgiving and the New Year is seven pounds. Most people are interested in losing weight—not gaining it. There are many aspects of the holiday season that make weight gain seem inevitable: shorter, darker days, added stress, holiday parties with holiday goodies, increased alcohol intake, and the ever-intensifying desire for comfort food. Not to mention, when the temperature drops and the weather turns frigid, your body instinctively stores fat in an attempt to keep you warm.
5 Habits for a Healthy Holiday
With so much working against you, it’s a struggle not to gain weight during the holidays, but you can avoid the Seasonal Seven. Here are five easy tricks to keep the pounds off this holiday season:
• Enjoy holiday food in moderation. Avoid overindulging on holiday treats. By all means, go ahead and enjoy your favorite holiday goody, but have one—not three. The same is true for holiday beverages. Not only will passing on that extra glass of eggnog save your gut, it can save you from doing something silly at your company holiday party.
• Keep a food journal. Most people are completely unaware of how many calories they actually consume during the holidays. Keeping track of what you eat and drink will help you maintain perspective on your daily food intake. Remember that it takes about 3500 calories to make a pound. 3500 calories may not sound like a lot, but after a few cookies, a few drinks, a plateful of hoer d’ oeuvres, and a typical holiday meal, you have more than surpasses the 3500 mark.
• Be active for TWENTY MINUTES each day. Play with your kids, walk your dog, do jumping jacks, anything. The cold weather makes your body pack on the fat, but the cold weather also helps you burn calories faster: if you exercise when it’s cold outside, you will burn more calories because your body has to work harder to stay warm.
• Chew gum. If you love to cook and bake, try chewing gum while you’re preparing the food. Chewing gum will prevent you from snacking on those high-calorie goodies and you won’t get fat licking the last bit of brownie batter from the bowl—you know you’ve done it. You can also chew gum at a holiday party to avoid eating all those fatty snacks that don’t really taste that good anyway.
• Relax. Taking time to enjoy yourself during the holidays is so important. You probably spend too much time worrying about foolish things like what you’re going to wear to a party or how you’re going to survive another encounter with the in-laws. Too much stress causes an increase cortisol, a stress hormone, and cortisol has been linked to belly fat. Santa is cute with a belly, but you’re not. So make sure you get in some good ol’ rest and relaxation.
The Cost of Health
The tips listed above are easy and free, but you know that staying healthy isn’t easy and free. Gym memberships are one of the first things to go when people decide to trim their personal budgets. However, a gym membership is more like a personal investment; staying fit now will prevent you from numerous (and costly) health problems in the future. Buying healthy food at the grocery store can also take a toll on your checkbook. The value menu at your favorite fast food restaurant is cheaper and more convenient, but your butt and thighs will hate you for it later. Then you can never be a Victoria’s Secret model! All jokes aside, getting your perfect, healthy body by eating right and staying fit is well worth the cost. Payday loans can help if you’re having trouble paying for those healthy groceries, or any other bill for that matter. Payday loans can help take the weight off your shoulders and your hips.




After the holiday’s I always start the new year with a few extra pounds due to all the holiday grubbin! I think short term loans are great for this time of season because if your anything like me there’s always something unexpected poppin up. Just knowing that they are there for me to use when I need to takes enough weight off my shoulders!
This really helped me see eating those extra cookies at the holiday party really adds extra pounds to my tummy. This year I will try these tips and see how my tummy looks after Christmas, I want to look good on New Years, I never know what I’m going to be doing on that night!
First of all, I will never, EVER, purchase a bra for more than $100 let alone a million dollars! Are people actually that crazy?! That money could be going to the millions of people around the world who are in desperate need of emergency funds. They are not as fortunate as we are here in America. If we want something, we go out and get it. If we don’t have the extra money to cover the costs, we obtain a payday loan. (Man, I’m still stuck on that million dollar bra!)