Damage Control: How To Undo The Damage Of A Large Holiday Meal

There’s no doubt about it, this coming holiday season, there is going to be one or more occasions when you do eat a little more than you should.  Even if you are watching your food choices and trying to aim to choose healthier, with so many options available, if you have a little bit of this and a little bit of that, it will add up.  You’ll usually end up taking in a good 200-600 calories more than you normally would, depending of course on the specific food choices you make.

So how can you undo the damage done by a holiday meal so that it doesn’t have such a negative impact on your body weight?

Let’s go over some of the main points to remember as far as damage control goes.

Perform Weight Lifting The Next Day

The first thing that you can do to practice damage control is to get into the gym and do a weight lifting session the next day.  Many people tend to gravitate towards cardio training after a high calorie meal, but this isn’t really the most ideal way to go.

Weight lifting is what will use up excess carbohydrates in your system far better than cardio training, so will help to remove the excess calories that you consumed.

Plus, weight training will help to elevate your metabolic rate for the hours after the session is completed, therefore will continue to help remove any excess fat that you may have burned off.

Cut Back On Your Carb Intake For Two Days

Second, also make sure that you cut back on your carb intake for a few days as well.  You cannot reduce your protein consumption on the days following an indulgence as protein is required to maintain your lean body mass.

Fat can be reduced slightly, but it’s best not to reduce this too much either as that will only cause higher levels of hunger to occur.  Fat is a nutrient that will help provide some hunger control while reducing your calories, so will make maintaining a reduced calorie intake in the coming days much easier. 

Don’t Starve For Days Straight

Finally, the last quick tip to help you recover from a holiday meal indulgence is to make sure that you aren’t starving yourself for days straight.

If you all of a sudden drop your calorie intake way down and keep it there, this may also signal to the body to start using up muscle mass as a fuel source.

This is precisely what you don’t want, so use a more gradual approach.  Bring your calorie intake much lower for two to three days and then adopt a more moderate calorie intake after that.

If you follow these quick tips, then you should have no problem reducing the damaging effects that the holiday meal you just took in had on you.  Consider using Phen375 as well, which will help to boost your metabolic rate so that you can burn more calories 24/7 the day after an indulgence.