It may NOT be the Holiday eating making you fat!

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas on the horizon, many of us begin to think about how much weight those big meals will cause us to gain.  But what if...it was NOT the big meal on that important day that causes us to gain the weight?

I've recently been talking with many people who were not aware that eating too few calories can cause you to pack on the pounds, almost as easily as when we eat too many calories.

The problems arise the day AFTER a big meal when many people decide to starve themselves to counteract all the calories consumed the day before.

Let me show you what I mean here.  

When we consume that awesome Holiday meal, we are at the Feast Response on this diagram. We are eating MORE calories than our body can metabolize.  When I don't eat enough calories the next day or next few days, I am then at the Diet location. Too few calories send my body into famine response and my body begins to hang onto every single calorie I eat. THE METABOLISM SLOWS DOWN.

The challenge arises when we go back to our normal eating patterns and our metabolism has slowed down from the previous decrease in caloric intake.  Add in stress of the Holidays and you have a perfect storm of weight gain!

This year after your feast, don't fast, take a walk or start a new family tradition of an aerobic activity to burn off some of those extra calories. Try drinking 2 glasses of water before you begin eating your feast for an added assistance in maintaining your healthy weight.

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