I write this short article for the benefit of those who, reading online, would like to remedy the fact of having eaten too much during the holidays, but do not know how, and worse, often find drastic solutions online.

Solutions that, if the subject has already experienced many diets, does not have a good relationship with food but a conflictual relationship, and has already experienced episodes of nervous hunger, are absolutely not good.

In facebook groups and forums dedicated to nutrition or fitness, we often read about people who go into paranoia for having gone astray for a few days

The saying: “it is not on holidays that you gain weight, but on all other days” is true.
If we have good eating habits, a good metabolism, and a good level of activity all year round, the holidays of Christmas or Easter won’t affect our weight. People who don’t worry too much about what they eat or will eat at parties tend to eat more. Worrying about it means adding stress to the whole thing.

Those who have good habits easily return to the same ones because, in fact, they are used to them.

But there is also another reason: the days following the binges, the body tends to burn more the next day, if we are normal weight subjects. We are not talking about a big metabolic advantage, but about 100 or 200 more calories that are burned thanks to diet-induced thermogenesis. 

This peculiarity is the basis of many cyclical diets, which exploit the “post recharge” period (of food) to increase metabolism despite the subsequent restriction . It will therefore be enough to treat the holiday sneak as a recharging period, and eat less from the next day with some stratagem to resolve the issue and go back to doing your own activities. How to do it? Here are some suggestions.