We've got Thanksgiving coming up.
We've got holiday parties coming up.
We've got a lot of chances to fulfill on that statistical 10 pounds that the average American gains over the next two months.
Of all the gifts you give and receive this holiday season, don't give yourself the gift of 10 pounds of fat. It has no gift receipt. You can't return it.
But my clients always get leaner over the holidays.
They enjoy themselves at holiday parties, and they show up to those parties looking leaner and hotter than they did before.
How do they do that?
I'm glad you asked. There's three steps to getting rockstar hot over the holidays:
#1) Pick Your Battles
Pick six to eight days over the next two months as free days. Eat what ever you want on those days.
In other words, anyone who tells you to keep your meal plan tight on Thanksgiving is a complete idiot.
If you don't plan in some free meals, you'll fall off the wagon completely.
#2) Keep it tight the rest of the time.
Psychologically, we plan in free days so that we can stay on plan the rest of the time.
It's not the Turkey Day pig out that makes people fat.
It's when you feel like you "blew your diet" on Thanksgiving, and then you pig out for a week, or a month, or straight through 'til New Years.
Planning to pig out on Thanksgiving is a great strategy for you to keep it tight the days before and after Thanksgiving.
And that's really going to be the key to you staying lean this holiday season.
#3) What about the other holiday parties and get togethers?
In all probability, there will be more than six or eight opportunities to pig out over the next two months?
What do you do then?
That's where the Holiday Fat Loss Black Book comes in.
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As usual good article. Josh the 10 lb gain over the holidays is a myth (prepared to be proven otherwise with cited research). Research in this decade shows that the average gain is around 1 lb and up to 5 lbs in very obese people over the winter. On average 0.8 lbs of that is gained during the 6 week Holiday period of Thanksgiving to New Years Day. The concern of course is that those gains add up over time especially for people already obese.
News article here with links.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/the-skinny-on-holiday-weight-gain/
A more scientific article here
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/news/releases/holidayweightgain.cfm
Read to the end for some of the best data. What is scary, but not surprising, is that the average American gains 0.4 to 1.8 lbs per year. No wonder obesity is a problem.