The madness of Christmas goodies!

What do people look forward to at the holidays other than people and presents?
FOOD!!!!
For generations Christmas has always been synonymous with goodies like cookies and Christmas cakes. Over the years more and more yummy snacks have become staples of the holidays. Things like nuts, chips, cheese, crackers and of course chocolates to name a few are placed out for everyone to eat.
At one time I am sure the treats were mostly for when company came over or to feed Santa after he put the presents under the tree.
Many people look forward to all the goodies and eating them!
So why is it that this time of year I find more and more people are trying to unload their surplus of them?
I myself started a diet last Monday and in the process rid my house of any left over snacks.
Some of my coworker's snacks arrived at the office after the holiday and on Sunday my neighbour wanted her husband and I to watch football and eat up the rest of their snacks!
It seems everyone looks forward to them, eats too many of them over the holidays (myself included) and then tries to shed them as an evil scourge in the new year!
We all know what those goodies do to our wastelines and yet every year we overindulge. If only we had the common sense to stop the maddness before it begins, we would not have this problem every year. It didn't help my cause that family members did not make it to help eat the goodies due to a snowstorm.
–Until then,
Ken