Eating preparations in the
run up to Thanksgiving.
The turkey tsunami hits on the 3rd
Thursday in November. It comes complete and replete with piles of potatoes, pies, sauces,
stuffing, and all the 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 the problem?
The problem is volume, pure and simple. Eating
a trough full of anything will make you overweight and unhealthy; and the 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
x
After Thanksgiving, most people have to be rolled away from the table to recover on the
couch for a solid hour of college football. Obviously, if the stretch receptors in the
wall of your stomach are screaming at you stop, Stop, STOP, you have added far too many
calories at that meal. In addition to the terrible feeling of being completely stuffed,
you have simply added to your expanding horizons.
Long
term problem
Your stomach is completely adaptable,
and responds to what you put in it. If you put it too much food, you are simply training
your stomach to receive more and more food at the next sitting. This long term problem
comes back at you down the road by increasing your tendency to overeat in the future. Just
as you can train yourself to eat smaller over time, you can train yourself to eat and
overeat gigantic portions.
Now what do we do?
Begin preparing for T-day now.
Put away your large plates and replace them with the medium sized ones. When you do this,
you will put less on your plate than you normally do, and you can begin to train your body
to expect less food in the long term. Make that amount last through the entire meal (about
20 - 30 minutes).
When T-day does arrive, you will
eat on your smaller plate, consume less food, and be the only groan-free member of your
family on the post-dinner couch!
About The Author
Dr. Will Clower is the award-winning author of The Fat Fallacy and founder of The PATH
Curriculum, The PATH Online, and Newsletter.
