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Our Athlean-XX for Women Nutrition Plan recommends eating 5 – 6 smaller meals per day instead of 2 – 3 large ones.  To many women that can sound like a lot, and some might just ignore this recommendation if they’re trying to lose weight.   Most women have been told their whole adult lives that weight loss is a simple equation of calories in, calories out.  So, we believe that the fewer calories we consume, the more weight we’ll lose.  In an attempt to eat as few calories as possible in the course of each day, we commit several errors.  We try not to eat anything until lunch.  We don’t eat anything after 7:00 p.m. either. Most women end up eating only two real meals per day.

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For those of us charged with doing ANY cooking this Thanksgiving – whether you’re taking a dish over to someone else’s place or hosting turkey day in your own home – we wanted to provide you with some healthy, clean eating alternatives to traditional Thanksgiving dishes.

Most people’s idea of Thanksgiving involves overeating and on this one day of the year, we may be tempted to eat double or triple the calories we usually do.  However, Thanksgiving IS the biggest eating holiday of the year, and even if you’re paying attention to your diet, you should still be able to enjoy it. It IS possible to make a number of tasty casseroles, dishes and desserts a little healthier by playing around with ingredients.

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Thanksgiving simultaneously inspires  fear and excitement in those of us who are working on our diets.  It’s a holiday centered totally around eating the best of what the final fall harvest has to offer.   Some of the foods on the Thanksgiving table are ones we only eat once a year and look forward to.  However, according to the Caloric Control Council, the average American consumes 4500 calories and 229 grams of fat on Thanksgiving.  While you might be more measured in your eating habits, it definitely gives you a sense of the amount of dietary damage that can be done on this one day in the year.  For some Thanksgiving can be a catalyst to an entire holiday season of eating gone wrong….6 weeks of overeating, sweets and fatty foods, leaving us a few pounds heavier come the first of the year.

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