Ask A Geologist: Easy Ways to Lose 5 Pounds for the Holidays

Dear Sweet Geologist,
What is a good way to lose 5lbs before Christmas? I want to look fab for my office party and my dumb MIL.

Five whole pounds? 5? Did you leave off some place value on that? I can accidentally lose five pounds in a day.

Personally I think you should just get some spanx but here are some other tips to get you looking fit and fantastic in no time.

5. Put your purse on the floor before you get on the scale.*

4. Weigh yourself with wet hair one day and dry hair the next. Or at night after dinner one night and in the morning before breakfast the next.

3. Change the tare on your scale.**

2. Take off your shoes.

1. Whatever. Just tell people you lost 5lbs. No one cares. Have you seen you? You're the hotness. Go watch this:





* Back in college my friend Anna and I would work out together at the Turner Center a few times a week. Mostly we would just go to the gym and be weird. One day, after about a month of "working out" Anna got onto the scale. She was SO MAD. She yelled, "I'm up like eight pounds!" We sat there for a minute trying to figure out what had happened and then I realized that she was still holding her purse. I think about that almost any time I get on a scale.

**Nerd.