NotOneOunce -- The Run-up To Thanksgiving

If you're eating all healthy foods, what's the problem?

The problem is volume, pure and simple. If you put it too much food, you are simply training your stomach to receive more and more food at the next sitting. Just as you can train yourself to eat smaller over ti

The 8-Week turn to Survive the Holidays

Eating preparations in the run up to Thanksgiving.

The turkey tsunami hits on the 3rd Thursday in November. It comes complete and replete with piles of potatoes, pies, sauces, stuffing, and all the rest. When you survey that mound of food, you realize that everything in there is healthy.

If you're eating all healthy foods, what’s the problem?

The problem is volume, pure and simple. Eating a trough full of either will make you overweight and unhealthy; and the typical Thanksgiving meal is normally served with a forklift. Name one thing on this planet that you cannot overconsume, to make it be born bad for you.

Short term problem

After Thanksgiving, most people have to be rolled away from the table to recover on the couch for a solid hour of council football. Obviously, if the stretch receptors in the wall of your stomach are screaming at you stop, Stop, STOP, you have extra far too many calories at that meal. In increase to the terrible feeling of materiality completely stuffed, you have simply supplementary to your expanding horizons.

Long term problem

You stomach is completely adaptable, and responds to what you put in it. If you put it too much food, you are simply training your stomach to receive more and more food at the next sitting. This long term problem comes back at you down the road by increasing your tendency to overeat in the future. Just as you can train yourself to eat smaller over time, you can train yourself to eat and overeat gigantic portions.

Now what do we do?

Begin preparing for T-day now. Put away your large plates and replace them with the medium sized ones. When you do this, you will put less on your plate than you normally do, and you can arise to train your body to expect less food in the long term. Make that ration last through the entire meal (about 20 - 30 minutes).

When T-day does arrive, you will eat on your smaller plate, consume less food, and be the only groan-free member of your family on the post-dinner couch!