Fitness and Nutrition Experts Share Tips On Giving Up Your Favorite Foods
I just read a very good article By Caroline Dohack-McCrary this morning which is basically a compilation of tips from Fitness and nutrition experts where they share Tips On Giving Up Your Favorite Foods in an attempt to stay on track with your diet during the holidays .
This article dispels the myth that over-eating for a few days is enough for you to pack on the pounds.
Caroline Dohack-McCrary reports that both Scottie Rawlings and Jen Talaski agree that it is not impossible to maintain your weight and stay on track during the holidays without giving up your favorite foods.
” First, it’s time to abandon that “all or nothing” mentality. A single day of indulgence won’t blow your whole year. As Scottie Rawlings pointed out, that 5- to 10-pound holiday weight gain doesn’t occur overnight. Rather, it accumulates during that period of time between Halloween and Valentine’s Day, said Rawlings, a registered dietitian and diabetes educator at Cosmopolitan International Diabetes and Endocrinology Center.
Jen Talaski, a trainer at Anytime Fitness, seconds this. It takes 3,500 calories to put on a pound of fat tissue, she said, meaning you would have to eat 17,500 to 35,000 calories in addition to what you usually eat in a day to put on that much weight. The numbers on the scale the Monday after Thanksgiving can be misleading, though, and for this reason Talaski advises people against weighing themselves immediately after the holiday.
“What they don’t realize is that a lot of giving food is very salty, so they’re going to make you retain water. It is impossible to gain 5 pounds in one day even if you’ve been gorging yourself,” Talaski said.”
So there you have it friends, no need to feel guilty for not sticking to your diet during the holidays, there is absolutely no need for you to go through the festive season without your favorite foods.
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