Not One Ounce. The 8-Week Campaign to Survive
Holidays -- by Will Clower, Ph.D., www.fatfallacy.com November 12th Eating preparations in run up to Thanksgiving.
The turkey tsunami hits on 3rd Thursday in November. It comes complete and replete with piles of potatoes, pies, sauces, stuffing, and all 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 problem?
The problem is volume, pure and simple. Eating a trough full of anything will make you overweight and unhealthy; and typical Thanksgiving meal is normally served with a forklift. Name one thing on this planet that you cannot overconsume, to make it become bad for you.
Short term problem After Thanksgiving, most people have to be rolled away from table to recover on couch for a solid hour of college football. Obviously, if stretch receptors in wall of your stomach are screaming at you stop, Stop, STOP, you have added far too many calories at that meal. In addition to terrible feeling of being completely stuffed, you have simply added to your expanding horizons.
