- New England Journal of Medicine study found our peak time of year
- Researchers discovered waistlines are slimmest in October
- We start to swell at Thanksgiving, continue until New Year’s get-fit kick
- But results of that do not start to show until April, then we yo-yo in summer
Mia De Graaf For Dailymail.com
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Grab your bikini, wear that dress you’re waiting to fit into, and if you want to flaunt those legs – go for it.
Now is the best shape you will be all year, according to a new scientific study.
But it won’t last long.
Researchers at Cornell University collaborated with Tampere University in Finland to analyze wireless weigh-ins of 3,000 people in three countries.
Their study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found your figure is at its peak at the end of September and October.
Now is the best shape you will be all year, according to a new scientific study
In the US, waistlines begin expanding around Thanksgiving.
The trend among the 1,781 American participants indicated a weight bump of 0.2 per cent during Thanksgiving.
They swell to their peak at Christmas and New Year’s – adding another 0.4 per cent of weight – before the annual get-fit drive kicks in.
But the effects of our detoxes, new-found gym memberships, and diets do not show until around April.
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And for the next few months we are torn between beach diets and all the indulgences of summer – calorific cocktails, sunny brunches, and Fourth of July barbecues.
It means things don’t really level out until October. And at that point, we are in our prime.
The trend among the 1,781 American participants indicated a weight bump of 0.2 per cent during Thanksgiving.
The study used scales that sent data over a Wi-Fi connection rather than requiring participants to self-report or visit a testing site for weigh-ins.
The researchers also analyzed yearly weight patterns of 760 German and 383 Japanese participants.
Researchers at Cornell University collaborated with Tampere University in Finland to analyze wireless weigh-ins of 3,000 people in three countries
Similar to their American counterparts, those in Germany weigh the most around Christmas, while those in Japan weigh the most during Golden Week, four major holidays in the spring.
Each country also showed a peak in weight gain at New Year’s.
‘Everyone gains weight over the holidays – Americans, Germans, Japanese,’ said Wansink.
But, he said, an annual holiday ritual repeated at the start of the season could go a long way.
‘Instead of making a New Year’s resolution, make an October resolution,’ Wansink said. ‘It’s easier to avoid holiday pounds than to lose them after they happen.’
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