Holiday Weight Gain is a Myth

Let’s Crunch Some Numbers

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Every year, I see articles about how to avoid holiday weight gain. Some of them even focus on a single holiday, as if you could put on pounds just from Thanksgiving dinner. Well, let’s think about this and see if it really adds up.

A pound of fat contains 3,500 calories. In order to gain a pound of body fat, your body has to store this many…