A Thanksgiving Week Eating Strategy

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Happy Friday!

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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. With it coming up next week, I thought I’d share an eating strategy in preparation for the Thanksgiving feast.

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Let’s jump into this week’s Fit Tip Friday!

🔎 In This Fit Tip Friday

Inside you’ll find:

• A Thanksgiving week eating strategy

• The average amount of calories an American eats on Thanksgiving

• 55 healthy Thanksgiving recipes, 7 of the weirdest dishes that get served on Thanksgiving, and more

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Tip: A Thanksgiving Week Eating Strategy

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If you’ve ever heard fitness influencers claim that their programs “help you lose weight while eating burgers and pizza”, I’m about to tell you the secret.

Knowing this little piece of information can help you prepare for the Thanksgiving feast.

It’s called flexible dieting. There are different variations of this method, but here’s a basic one that uses only calories as a variable.

Your “TDEE” (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) is the estimated amount of calories your body burns each day. If you eat, on average, 500 calories below your body’s TDEE, you will lose about a pound a week (on average).

Let’s say my TDEE is ~2,500. If I wanted to lose a pound during the week of Thanksgiving, I’d target an average of 2,000 calories per week.

Which means I can play around with my daily totals, as long as I hit my weekly average target. Here’s what I’d do for the week of Thanksgiving:

• Monday - 1,800 calories

• Tuesday - 1,800 calories

• Wednesday - 1,800 calories

• Thursday (🦃) - 3,000 calories

• Friday - 2,000 calories

• Saturday - 1,800 calories

• Sunday - 1,800 calories

For the entire week, this averages out to about 2,000 calories. And I get to enjoy the Thanksgiving feast with some pecan pie on Thursday, as well as a bit more room for leftovers on Friday.

Hope this serves.

🔎 Finds/Resources This Week

Here are some of my favorite finds/resources this week.

The average amount of calories an American eats on Thanksgiving Day (more)

Other finds

• 55 healthy Thanksgiving recipes worth adding to your table (more)

• The best (and worst) Thanksgiving foods for your health (more)

• How the Turkey Trot became the most popular race in America (more)

• How many steps do you need to burn off Thanksgiving dinner (more)

• Why you should take a walk after that big Holiday meal (more)

• 7 of the weirdest dishes that get served at Thanksgiving (#7 is crazy) (more)

👍 Thanks for reading!

Can’t help but share this Psalm heading into the week of Thanksgiving. The Lord is good!

I’ll see you next week. I hope you and your families have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

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Be strong,

Don

P.S. My face when I see anything Christmas out before Thanksgiving Day