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Due to the holiday coming up, I figured it would be best to post about how to go about dieting on a holiday!
So I bring you...
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DIETING ON A HOLIDAY!!!!
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Drum roll please!
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Step one:...
YOU DON’T DIET ON A HOLIDAY
THE END OF THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DIETING ON A HOLIDAY!
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Seriously, simple as that.
“B-B... B B B BUUUUUT!”🤔😰😯 you say??
Okay! You want an explanation here we go! 👏🏻
Holidays, (the usual major ones anyway) happen only a select time of year, on a select day, very distant from one another.
This is not the time to be focusing on diet, this is the time to:
RELAX....
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SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS
👫👬👭👯♀️🕺🏻💃🏻🕴🏻👨👩👧👦👩👩👧👦👨👨👧👦
(...or ya know, by your lonesome whatever’s cool)
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ENJOY ALL THE YUMMY FOODS...
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(That’s the important super fun part!)
UNBUTTON YOUR TOP BUTTON OF YOUR PANTS AFTER EATING A LOT OF THOSE YUMMY FOODS...
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This isn’t the time to worry or stress over:
“OMG IF I EAT ANY OF THE LARGE CALORIE FOODS ILL GAIN A BILLION POUNDS OF FAT AND NEVER REACH MY GOAL AND KNOCK MY PROGRESS BACK 10+ YEARS”
....No you won’t, you’re FINE!
Given the fact you’ve been in an extended caloric deficit for the last weeks/months, chances are, depending on where you are at, you may be feeling a little. Meh... Possibly drained, fatigued, maybe hungry, maybe weight loss hasn’t been progressing so great lately.
Whatever the reason.
You don’t have anything to worry about.
Because❗️❗️❗️
After a while, our bodies get tired out, they need to refuel, they need diet breaks.
(more so on this subject in my profile in a previous post I made relating to diet breaks, look for the long fun emoji filled post 😉 go to my March 13th post about “diet breaks”)
Continuing on...
In order to gain 1 pound of fat. You must consume, in excess of your maintenance calorie level:
3500 calories
Now, for majority of people, let’s say the “average” person has a maintenance level of 2000 calories (random example) , and in order to gain 1 little pound of fat by tomorrow, they would need to consume total:
5500 calories!
Those who are especially overweight, will already have other calorie maintenance levels that may even be close to that, if they weigh 200lbs (also random example), they may have a maintenance level of around 2800 sometimes even more calories! Which would mean in order to gain one pound of body fat by tomorrow they’d have to consume:
6300 calories!
....Seems like a lot right? 🤭It is! 😯
But it gets better! 🤨🧐
Because, even if anyone did consume that high of an amount of calories for a whole day, that doesn’t mean all of it will automatically go directly towards new body fat!
So get this:👇🏻
🗂📊📈📉The body has many major and minor functions that contribute to the “where and what and when” calories will be utilized/partitioned/processed/& burned off!
📋To list Just a few examples among the many
Such as:
🔥🍱🔥The Thermic Effect of Food:
Which is the amount of calories your body burns/uses to digest food (from macronutrient intake) which can contribute to any excess calories being burned off!
✍🏻👩🏻💻🚶🏻♂️N.E.A.T.:
Which stands for “Non-Exercise Active Thermogenesis” Which contributes to all the little things you do through the usual day that burns calories, such as tapping your foot, typing, brushing your teeth, texting, clipping your nails (the longer the more cals burned! lol jk) and fidgeting, plus many more things!
🏋🏻♂️🤸🏻♀️⛷🚵🏼♀️🧗🏻♂️Physical Exercise:
Especially if you’re doing any type of physical exercise that high amount of calorie intake would even be HIGHER than those previously stated amounts just TO gain any level of body fat! Even more so if doing any resistance/weight training Due to the bodies calorie partitioning towards muscle & refueled glycogen levels.
....So as you can see 🤓
You have nothing to worry about!😌
😥😲 “...”
Oh? You aren’t satisfied with those answers? 😒
Ok, ok, I’ll give you a few options to help you decide how you’ll plan your course for the upcoming holiday...😏
⚫️OPTION 1: You decide to suck it up and refuse to eat anything off your diet plan! Hell you’ve gone this long in a deficit what’s another day going to do!?... 🙅🏻♂️
Ok sure🤦🏻♂️ ...Until you see all the food🙇🏻♂️... Until you smell it, see how everyone else is enjoying themselves around you, and you’re there saying no to everything. Is it possible? Absolutely. But, ask yourself, is it worth being possibly, hungry, annoyed, frustrated to sit through a single day that could be enjoyed without repercussions, maybe causing cortisol levels to rise in turn making matters worse and may lead to possibly binging due to hunger in the weeks/days to come, thusly throwing off your deficit and maybe gaining fat at that point?!! 🙎🏻♂️
(It’s not fun believe me I’ve been there before!)
🔴OPTION 2: You decide to eat. But, the rest of the week you eat less then usual, in order to save more calories for enjoyment on the holiday. Maybe you even decide to weigh out/track the holiday foods to still enjoy it, and continue your deficit, or maybe eat a little surplus.
(Not too shabby of an option, I’ve done this numerous times before... But it isn’t as much fun as...)
🔵OPTION 3: Not giving a crapoola!! You’ve earned this day! You’ve made progress, you’ve done good the last few weeks, you’ve been busting your butt in the gym, you’ve been tracking your dietary intake/weight etc. I say you’ve earned it. You know that the few times a year, overconsumption of excess calories won’t do anything harmful or break your deficit streak! You’re ready to enjoy the day and eat until you’re full! 🙋🏻♂️
(I dunno about you, but like this one. Really sounds like a great idea if I do say so myself, because I said so myself, saying so myself, by myself...Ssssssselfie📲🙆🏻♂️)
Now for the best part....
The most likely outcome of this single day, you end up enjoying yourself and having fun and only gaining a few pounds of water weigh, as well as weight from the, undigested food, poop, refueled glycogen. This is nothing, at all to be concerned with!
⚠️IMPORTANT NOTE⚠️: Ignore the increase in weight the day after!! Just continue with the week. It’s NOT fat! It is a combination of the above issues!
If by some happenstance you gained one measly little pound of fat? Psh, wave it off because as long as you continue resuming your deficit in the subsequent days following, you’ll more than likely burn off that pound of fat and maybe even lose more by the end of the week. At worst, you maintain weight for a week.
You’ll live...
3 options, and a week to prepare...
Here’s a secret 🤫...
CHOOSE OPTION 3!
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