I hope that you will be able to enjoy the holiday with people that you love, with a minimum of travel hassle, and some fun activities.
My advice for how to enjoy Thanksgiving eating is - chow down, chow hard, go big or go home. Notice all the ways this impacts you. How will you feel tonight? How will you sleep? How will you feel tomorrow? How will your clothes fit? How does the gastric napalm of Thanksgiving affect your GI business for the next couple days, and your appetite?
Hopefully, the impact will be minimal. If not, take note! It will help you teach the UCM what you do and don't want.
If the idea of bathing your brain, nervous system and blood vessels in a hyper-sugar fest isn't appealing, after you feast take a long, enjoyable walk to help your system burn off that extra sugar it will be struggling to manage. If you can train hard, that's fine too, but I never want to work all that hard I fill my gut with sweet, tasty crap ... which I will!
Anthony Colpo and others like to say the equivalent of "a calorie is a calorie, so fat gain/loss is just a matter of not eating too much, and/or moving more." They also like to say "I'm smart and you are dumb because you can't see the very clear science I see that proves this is true."
Well, I think days like today reveal how they have no clothes. Why? Because you can test for yourself the impact on blood sugar of eating the high sugar treats that characterize the Thanksgiving feast, and it won't be pretty. If you test, you are likely to see hours of elevated blood sugar. I don't think there are too many folks who would say that's not an issue for health if it becomes a long term pattern. If you chose to, you could also test the alternative: eat an equivalent amount of calories as moderate protein and high quality fat to see the impact on blood sugar. I'm betting it'll be far better than in the sugar case.
In other words, the "calorie is a calorie" argument is not important for most of the folks that need to change how they eat. What they must do is stabilize blood sugars - regain the body's natural glycemic control. You can most easily do that via carb restriction.
There are too many blessings in my life to dig into here, but one is the chance to explore learning, teaching and helping my readers - thanks!
My advice for how to enjoy Thanksgiving eating is - chow down, chow hard, go big or go home. Notice all the ways this impacts you. How will you feel tonight? How will you sleep? How will you feel tomorrow? How will your clothes fit? How does the gastric napalm of Thanksgiving affect your GI business for the next couple days, and your appetite?
Hopefully, the impact will be minimal. If not, take note! It will help you teach the UCM what you do and don't want.
If the idea of bathing your brain, nervous system and blood vessels in a hyper-sugar fest isn't appealing, after you feast take a long, enjoyable walk to help your system burn off that extra sugar it will be struggling to manage. If you can train hard, that's fine too, but I never want to work all that hard I fill my gut with sweet, tasty crap ... which I will!
Anthony Colpo and others like to say the equivalent of "a calorie is a calorie, so fat gain/loss is just a matter of not eating too much, and/or moving more." They also like to say "I'm smart and you are dumb because you can't see the very clear science I see that proves this is true."
Well, I think days like today reveal how they have no clothes. Why? Because you can test for yourself the impact on blood sugar of eating the high sugar treats that characterize the Thanksgiving feast, and it won't be pretty. If you test, you are likely to see hours of elevated blood sugar. I don't think there are too many folks who would say that's not an issue for health if it becomes a long term pattern. If you chose to, you could also test the alternative: eat an equivalent amount of calories as moderate protein and high quality fat to see the impact on blood sugar. I'm betting it'll be far better than in the sugar case.
In other words, the "calorie is a calorie" argument is not important for most of the folks that need to change how they eat. What they must do is stabilize blood sugars - regain the body's natural glycemic control. You can most easily do that via carb restriction.
There are too many blessings in my life to dig into here, but one is the chance to explore learning, teaching and helping my readers - thanks!
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