Personal Training on Your Birthday? By Scott Hunt At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

We’ve all heard people jokingly say you can’t get fat on your Birthday. Great news! It’s true! Because your birthday is one day of the year, that’s a mere 0.0027% of your year or about 1/3 of a tenth of 1%. If you’ve been great for 300 or so days of the year (not 365 since nobody is perfect), you can afford to enjoy binging on your Birthday- you deserve it, just keep it to ONE day.

Don’t Gain 10 Pounds:

Like the Holiday season where so many people gain as much 10 pounds, knowing how to get back on a lower calorie weight loss diet is the hardest thing for some people to realize. Statistics show that sometimes, dieters that fall off the diet for only one day have a hard time waking up the next morning and starting over. If you are one of these people, then binging on your Birthday may not be any better than binging through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Start Over Tomorrow:

It has been said that if you cheat on a diet, don’t use it as an excuse to go off the diet. Start each day as a new day. Weight usually comes on fairly slowly- even weight gains through the holidays take at least a week to a month to show, in some cases. This is because of the metabolism and fat storage system. The body can only absorb so many nutrients and fat from the foods you eat as they pass through the digestive system and are disposed of.

One Day Won’t Hurt:

One day of high calorie intake will not show major weight gains, no matter how much you eat and drink. It’s the habit of continuing high calorie intakes that is the problem as your metabolism takes a few days to adapt. The main thing is to start back on a lower calorie and healthier diet the next day.

A Pound of Fat is 3200 Calories:

If you eat or drink 3200 calories more than you burn, you will gain a pound. By increasing basic activities and adding an hour of walking, jogging or bicycling to your day, you can burn the extra recommended 1500 calories a week, to avoid weight gain. Of course, it is important to realize that if you burn more calories than you take in, you will lose weight. If you burn an equal number of calories, you maintain weight and if you take in more than you burn, you will gain weight. As you can see, Holiday eaters that gain 10 pounds have eaten 32,000 more calories than they burned, over a short period time.

Birthday Binging:

Perhaps the easiest thing to incorporate into your Birthday binging is healthy, low calorie foods in the early part of the day. This will keep you from over-doing it on the higher calorie foods, drinks and cake. If you keep the 3200 calorie figure in mind, the worst than can happen is that you will gain a pound or two. Just keep in mind that it is a lot harder to come off than it is going on, so avoid over-eating as much as you can, unless you plan to have increased physical activity on your Birthday like going dancing, bowling or swimming. The important thing is to have fun and not worry about gaining a pound or two on your Birthday, as long as you wake up tomorrow with a plan to take it off!

Scott Hunt has been a Personal Trainer for over a decade and has personally taken over 20,000 Personal Training sessions. While his Gold Coast Studio, Fitness Enhancement has done hundreds of thousands of sessions.

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