Oh the dreaded month of December. The month when you undo all your gains with overeating and overindulgence. Or is it?

All we keep seeing in the media and fitness articles is how you need to control yourself this Christmas so you don’t pack on the kilos.

These articles and news stories tell you how you need to “control your portions”, or switch to “low-fat gravy” and be disciplined where you’ll be tempted to stuff your face with stuffing, roast potatoes, cakes and desserts.

Well, I have a different opinion on this.  In fact, why should we restrict at all?  After all, it’s only 1 day per year. Why not just eat as much as you want?

Seriously, 1 day of feasting out of a full year is NOT going to make or break the results you’re getting with your fitness routine, as long as you make sure a massive feast like this is a VERY rare occasion.

Even if you decide to feast on every holiday that you celebrate throughout the year, this is still only going to be 5 or 6 feasts per year.

That’s only about 1 feast every 2 months… nothing that is worth worrying about in terms of your fitness results.

What I’m talking about here is having a weekly “cheat day”…

Now keep in mind, I would consider a normal weekly cheat day to be a step below a Xmas day feast in terms of calories… but the fact remains that OCCASIONAL overeating can actually have surprising benefits to revamping your metabolic rate via the leptin hormone response (this triggers your body to “crank up” your metabolism again if you’ve been restricting calories previously).

My main point is that I think it’s crazy to sit there on Xmas day or any other holiday for that matter and try to restrict yourself too much when these holidays are really only a few days out of the entire year. Just make sure to get your normal healthy diet back on track the very next day.

So go right ahead and eat as much as you want… Just be sure you make it to the gym the day after for a SUPER high intensity resistance training workout.

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Feast hard, then train hard!