Summer is here, Summer is here! Like many of us you are now only thinking of two things :Summer Events and Summer Holidays. I know that you know all about how to deal with Summer events so this Blog is about Summer Holidays or more accurately your body and summer holidays:Most of us in this industry work long hours and our diet consists mainly of the “two C variety” : Canapé’ and Champagne , neither good for the figure but both great for the mood.
After much searching and exploration through the leaning tower of paper I like to call my filing system. I found an article about how managers could motivate their employees to lose weight from back in January. Hooray! Unfortunately at that time, I was probably too busy finishing off the Christmas office party leftovers to notice that newsflash and now, here we all are, fatter than ticks, preparing for all the summer party’s and the annual migration somewhere hot with a book, a towel, best friend and a roll of fat so large it may need its own seat on the plane. I may be speaking of myself here 
But it’s never too late to become a loser, and I’m sure that’s a sentiment likely to be endorsed by Gillian McKeith the internationally acclaimed Holistic Nutritionist who looks at things most dogs would turn their nose up at. But I remember she did a talk about “ Achieving a Healthier Workplace One Employee at a Time.”
It is Mrs. Gillian’s contention that an enlightened employer can lighten up his workforce with a “corporate wellness program”. While I am less sanguine about getting over-stressed, underpaid worker bees to “just put down that jelly donut and come out with your hands up”, our Gillian certainly has a plethora of facts to demonstrate that the fat in our systems is doing more than clogging our arteries.
Parliamentary report estimates that back in 2001 the Cost to NHS was £2bn. The cost now to the UK economy is £7bn (3.5 times greater) and if nothing changes the cost of Obesity could cost the NHS in England as much as £6.3bn a year by 2015 if no effective action is taken, the government has said. Scary numbers, though, of course, it all depends on your definition of obese. [My definition doesn’t rely on a bunch of complicated statistics. In my world, an obese person is defined as anyone who is fatter than me.] Not to mention the expense of the recalls to remove the Pizza Hut pizza boxes from all the offices around the country from all of us that work late.
Being a PhD, Dr. Gillian is smart enough to realize that getting employees to shape up takes more than scary statistics. She offers some tips for the caring, cost-conscious manager to utilize in trimming the fat around the office. I’ll share a few to help you get started:
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