Only A Moron “Eats Clean” on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a free day.  Period.  

Scratch that: Thanksgiving should be THE MOTHER OF ALL FREE DAYS.

Don't listen to all of the crazy talk about "how to eat clean on Thanksgiving".  Every year we get 1,000 stupid artciles on how to eat right on Thanksgiving.  Don't do it.   I think that's the kind of advice that trainers give when they are totally out of touch with reality.

Eat right the day before Thanksgiving.  Eat right the day after Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving, you should totally pig out.

I mean Give Thanks.

I mean Give Thanks AND Pig Out.

Free Days Are About Picking Your Battles

The holidays are coming, and the holidays are all about picking your battles.  Some holiday events you may have to eat right.  Most of them you will make free days.  The trick is to eat right between holiday events, and to not have every day be a holiday event.

Examples:

Thanksgiving: Free day

Random Thursday that someone brings in brownies at work: Pass on the brownies and eat clean

Company Holiday Party: Free Day

Walking by a jar of candy canes: Pass on candy canes and eat clean

Look, I think you can get it.  Skip the christmas cookies and all of the crap food that starts showing up around you during the holidays.  Save your free days for the big events with people.

Happiness and Free Days

It's kind of like every time they do a study on money buying happiness, they always find the same thing: Buying stuff with your money almost never leads to any kind of lasting enjoyment or happiness, but buying experiences almost always does.  In other words, the 6 day carribean cruise with your significant other or best friend gets you more happiness than the new car.

By the same metaphor, a free day that's an experience buys you more happiness than a free day that's just a type of food.  In other words, it's more fun to have a free day on Thanksgiving with people you love than it is to have a free day eating donuts in front of the TV alone.

There tends to be a lot of events coming up through the holidays.  Make those your free days.  

And remember – a free day only works in your favor if YOU EAT AWESOME THE REST OF THE TIME.

Thanksgiving as a free day = awesome

Thanksgiving as a start of a continuous free season
that lasts until January 1st = epic fail

Make sure to put really awesome, clean eating days between your free days.  Then you can really enjoy your Thanksgiving.

-Josh Hillis

RKC, CPT, PES, ZMIS

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