Welcome to How to be a Holiday Hottie, Holidash's inside scoop on keeping your figure during party season! Every Tuesday, diet and fitness guru (and total hottie) Fitz proffers tips to stay slim and trim through the holidays, and inspires you to face the new year in top form. You can read all the Holiday Hottie posts here.

What the hell is it with people gaining ten or more pounds during the Holidays? Yeesh! I think someone needs to write the song, "All I want for Christmas is a big fat ***!" Crazy. Okay Hotties. This is not your path, and I'm going to tell you why.

You, my friends, know that the holidays do not qualify as every day between mid November and early January. If this strange theory were true, we would refer to them as the HoliMONTHS. And this is clearly not the case, now is it?

Look, as your personal fitness expert, I find it my responsibility to be insanely honest with you and do whatever it takes to get you through this festive season looking and feeling as hot, sexy, confident and happy as you can. It all starts with a reality check, and now it's time to follow up with some strategy.

I want you to enjoy your special holidays. So let's figure out how many you have. I believe, no matter what religion you subscribe to ... there are only three. Three! (Jewish people, don't even consider downing pastries every night throughout Hanukkah.) On these three days I encourage you to cautiously (not recklessly) indulge in a favorite dessert or alcoholic beverage. Enjoy a bit and then move on. Thanks!

Treat every other day in between your three favorites as just any other day. You know what that means. You get in a vigorous workout and eat wisely on a regular basis. Holiday Hotties do not have cocktails and plates of hors d'oeuvres at every party they attend. If you did that in March, you'd blow up. If you do that in December ... you'll blow up too (and I don't mean explode).

You have my full permission to whip it up (a little) during legitimate holidays. On the rest of the days ... you don't. In fact, I bet you don't even need my permission. Why? Cause if you're the Holiday Hottie that I believe you are, you're already on the ball. You may have even set out to lose a few pounds before the New Year. But we'll talk about that next week.