Ok so we are embarking on what I like to call Hell Week, I believe you call it Thanksgiving. This is the time of the year where all my clients seem to fall completely off! But this year will be a little bit different if you follow the CF4L holiday tips. Trust me when I say you can still enjoy this time of year without putting on 5-10lbs that will take you all next year to work off.

1. Fasting- Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner is usually eaten earlier in the day because we don’t work that day. Why not just take the day completely off. Yep no eating that entire day until you sit down for your holiday meal. Drink a lot of water during the day. The body can process about 700 calories at once. Excess calories tend to be stored and can turn to fat rather quickly.

1. Alcohol- Most of the time holidays fall on a weekday and we don’t have to work the next day, so we feel that is the perfect opportunity to drink a lot of liquor. Wrong! Alcohol consumption quickly adds extra calories, offers little health benefits, and will leave you with unwanted pounds that will take all year to get off. Alcohol suppresses the central nervous system. When alcohol is added to a meal less fat is burned on average which causes more fat to be stored by the body.

1. Be Active- On the holiday be active, start the day off with a 30 min. walk, then after dinner do another 30 min walk. That is 1 hour of cardio, and that will actually help offset at least your desert that day. An one hour walk can burn anywhere from 200-500 calories.

1. Holiday not Holi-month!- Just eat one dinner, one day and move on. To many times we try to re-live thanksgiving all the way up until Christmas. We bring thanksgiving dinner for lunch, then go home and eat the dinner again and do this day after day until all the food has been consumed. What we don’t realize is the affect this has on our body.Thanksgiving dinner is on average 3,000 calories and 300 grams of fat