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Chris: fat chance!

The proof is in the pudding.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie admitted yesterday that he doesn’t make New Year’s res olutions to lose weight anymore because he never sticks to them.

The 48-year-old rising star in the Republican Party said that he has resolved to shed the extra baggage about 35 times in his life but has only had “varying degrees of success.”

Instead, Christie has found a new approach to New Year’s resolutions.

He said he and his wife, Mary Pat, have started mak ing resolutions to each other.

The couple, who have been married for more than 20 years, will sit down on Dec. 31 and plan what they want to accomplish in 2011, Christie said.

He added that they’ll later compare notes “to see how well we do.”

Christie, who was sworn in as New Jersey’s governor last January after defeating incum bent Jon Cor zine, doesn’t shy away from cracking jokes about his weight.

When he appeared on Don Imus as a candidate in 2009, he told the shock jock he had lost about 35 pounds and now only weighs “550 pounds.”

Exaggerations about his weight aside, Christie said his personal success came after starting a new diet and exercise regime with a personal trainer.

But, he quipped, any weight-loss progress was like “throwing a couple of deck chairs off the Titanic.”

“I’ve tried every other crazy method in the world, but you just lose weight and you gain it back,” he told Imus.

Christie, who was nicknamed “Big Boy” by former President George W. Bush when he was the US attorney in Newark, tries to work out three times a week, a friend told The Post.

“He knows it’s unhealthy, and he’s trying,” the pal said in an October profile of Christie.

The pounds are also a political issue for Christie.

When running against Corzine in 2009, Christie had to endure a commercial from his opponent that used the tongue-in-cheek tag line “throwing his weight around” to suggest Christie used improper influence in avoiding traffic tickets.

Christie responded by calling the ads “stupid” and “silly,” and noted that he had become “numb” to fat jokes.

tim.perone@nypost.com