The Chatty Gourmet

So it has been about a month since I have updated you all on my progress with my weight loss and healthy living. It has been an interesting month as well. I have been sick twice and recently found out I need to have my tonsils removed in January. Despite the illness  and the Thanksgiving holiday I have still managed to stay on track. Although, now that I only have a few pounds left to my goal weight it has been a slower process. I have two more pounds until I am at the goal I set for myself at the end of August. I am at a total loss of 18 pounds and feel great. I think I am most excited to know that I have changed my eating habits completely, thus keeping the weight off even without being able to exercise. Unfortunately, due to my knee injury and being sick, yes, I will admit I haven’t been exercising. This was part of my original goal but some times life gets in the way. So hopefully after the New Year and my surgery I will be able to start back up with the exercising and tone up a bit. For now I will continue to regulate my eating to the best of my ability on a daily basis through the rest of this holiday season. One dessert I treat myself to is the ginger snaps here at SHG. They are so good and a great way to enjoy the season.

So we all know that lately I have been keeping you all updated on my current weight loss. However, I have had a few questions of my own. One question that crossed my mind was the effects of splurging every once in a while. For example, right now during the holiday season. Recently I was scrolling through Yahoo Health and found a great article on what a splurge day can actually mean in terms of weight gain. I was surprised to learn that it takes quite a bit of splurging to gain one single pound. According to Heather Hawkins a fitness nutrition coach “It would probably take about a week for a true one-day overage of 3500 (remember, that’s 3500 OVER your daily burn, so we’re talking a 5500+ calorie day here) to convert to a single pound of permanent body mass.”I don’t know about you but this was somewhat comforting to me. I mean a total of 5500 calories is quite a bit of food. So as long as you keep with in your means you should be able to have a guilt free splurge day once in a while. Just remember that the holiday is one day so keep the splurging to that day.