Undoing Turkey Day Damage

Hopefully, most of you made great choices for your health yesterday, on Thanksgiving Day. You exercised in the morning, avoided too many appetizers and stuck to only one piece of pie. If you did that, congratulations -- I'm proud of you!

If you went a little nut-so on the nuts and gobbled up several different desserts, though ... it's time to get to work. Weight gain comes as a direct result of consuming more calories than you burn. It's quite possible that you actually gained anywhere from a half a pound to three in just one day. Yeesh!

Your second priority is to force vigorous exercise into each day during the next week as well. Vigorous exercise leaves you huffing, puffing and sweating profusely. Do lots of it.

Diets are dumb, and there is no reason you should have to resort to one because of one day of eating insanity. Having said that, the holidays are a slippery slope and if you don't combat the effects of each random act of overindulgence you commit ... they will pile up, and you will be left with a big old pile of fat!

So, I'm going to help you undo that with two simple instructions. Your first priority is to cut back on calories. This will help you balance out the over indulgences of your feast. Cut between 100 and 300 calories out each day over the next week, depending on how far over you went last night.