Thanksgiving Day can get more decadent than you expected.
Let’s face it: Everyone blows his or her calorie budget every now and then. Do
you need to worry? Is that old dieter’s saying, “a moment on the lips, forever
on the hips” really true? And what should you do next.
The good news is, one meal is not going to ruin you if you
eat sensibly and exercise regularly the rest of the time and get back to your
routine. You need to eat 3,500 calories to gain one pound of body fat, so it’s
unlikely that a single overindulgence will show up on the scale.
No one is perfect in their eating habits. What we have to
learn is that we are giving ourselves permission to do this, and as soon as
it’s over, we should go back to the eating plan we normally follow. This does
not give us permission to continue to overeat and binge.
