I'm not sure what my son is trying to tell me.
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This whole mindset is wrong. Let's heap all kinds of guilt on a single day's consumption.
The Math Alone: If recommended caloric intake were 2000-2500 calories per day, then 4500 calories on one day amounts to over-eating 6-8 calories per day over the course of the year. Meanwhile, 2600 calories amounts to 100-600 calories per day. An extra 6-8 calories per day is not enough in itself to amount to an entire pound of extra weight. Parking at the back of your work parking lot might make a bigger impact. Meanwhile, an extra 100-600 calories per day would require 10-60 minutes of additional moderately intense exercise to offset. The Societal Guilt: Scientific research and some recent dietary plans provide better specifics, but we are built for some degree of feast and famine. As hunter-gatherer civilizations, we could have endured days of minimal nourishment only to gorge ourselves when a food source was finally found (killed). We even celebrate the fast/feast cycle in many religions. A Last Comparison: All of this hand-wringing over a 4500-calorie day or 4000-calorie meal is much like thinking that working out really hard for two weeks of the new year will make you healthy. Many New Year's Resolutioners probably work at such an intensity under that mindset that they ruin exercise until they've forgotten it for an entire year. Thanksgiving isn't the problem: It may not even be a symptom of the problem. Equating a single occurrence or action with a habit is. It's a generalization. It may not be the worst offense of generalization, but it's still generalization.Check out this video on YouTube: