How Intermittent Fasting Can Help Balance Overeating During The Festive Season

With the good, happy and merry times just ahead, some of you might be concerned about where their weight might end up after eating all the cookies, Christmas pudding and of course mom’s traditional and not to be missed Christmas dinner turkey.

Delicious food is all around you!

Food is delicious and plenty this time of the year and we can not and, to be honest, we don’t want to refuse it. After all another year has gone by and the family has come together and all you do is eating, chatting, eating, visiting old friend from the area, eating and as if that wasn’t enough there are also lots of sweets for in-between eating.

And now, step on the scale!

But who wants to step on the scale afterwards? Well, you will have to face your fear of having put on weight, and for a reason! Wilhelm Busch once said „Nothing is harder to bear, than a few good days in a row!“ and there is probably some truth in it.

So, how do we fix that now?

Well, if we boil it down to the basics, we have created a huge calorie surplus over the Festive Season and to keep our weight, or rather to bring it back to where it was, all we need to do is to balance it with the same amount of calories in a deficit. The good thing is that usually the weight comes off easier if you tackle it right away, before it had time to get comfortable at your hips so to speak.

Here is your fix:

Intermittent fasting can help you here as with this method you are able to create a huge calorie deficit in a short time, so it is ideal to balance out our Christmas calorie surplus. With intermittent fasting all you do is you eat one day just as normal and you do not eat anything at all the next day (fasting), then again you eat the next day followed by fasting. So, you only need to fast for one day at a time. You can do that, can’t you?

Intermittent fasting is good for balancing calories

If not, maybe you can fast until the late afternoon, having one meal then and fast until the next day’s afternoon. The exact scheduling is up to you and there are many variations of intermittent fasting.

But if you can manage 2 or 3 fasting days within the week after Christmas, you should be back to normal weight wise. Although this is nothing I would consider to do over a longer period of time, as I rather believe in generally changing to healthier eating habits, intermittent fasting is a good way to balance calories from occasional overeating.