Thanksgiving Calories & Mini Vacation

How many calories will you consume this Thanksgiving? Dangerous Dave talks about how many most will eat, depending upon your eating habits. Plus, using your weekends like a mini vacation could be beneficial to your mental health.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. Well,
no matter how serious you are about your diet, the
biggest challenge this year is Thanksgiving holiday. Well, you know,
it's impossible to count calories. A new report looked at
how many calories people are doubting to Thanksgiving table. There's
good news and bad news. The average American chloric intake
at a Thanksgiving meal is just two thousand and ninety

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two calories, which doesn't seem that bad. According to dietary
guidelines in the US, adults should consume anywhere between sixteen
hundred and three thousand calories per day, depending upon a
bunch of stuff like your age, weight, gender, and maybe
your addiction to dessert. Of course, the whole day Thanksgiving
number is in a range. If it's your only meal
of the day, no snacking, no leftovers, no booze, then

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you're gonna be okay. Some people aren't kidding themselves, so
fourteen percent of people planning to eat over three thousand calories,
four percent over five thousand calories, and Thanksgiving Thursday isn't
the end of it. The average person eating about twenty
two hundred and seventy calories worth of leftovers, Nearly forty
percent of people said that he lot more than that.
Twenty seven percent said three thousand calories and leftovers, and

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nine percent said five thousand. On the average, Americans plan
to eat Thanksgiving leftovers for three days after Thanksgiving. Eight
percent planned to eat them for at least a week
or more, which can be a little tricky if you
want to stay well a little bit healthier. Deeper in
the two was your weekend so packed it felt like
you didn't even have one? According to the happiness expert,
you may want to get into the mindset of treating

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your weekends like a vacation. Cassie Holmes, a happiness researcher,
wrote the book Happier Hour, How to beat distraction, expand
your time, and focus on what matters most. She ran
a study where hundreds of people were told to treat
two days off like a mini vacation instead of a weekend.
Just thinking about it made a difference. People slept in longer,
had more fun, didn't worry about knocking everything off there

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to do list, just felt a little more in the moment.
It might mean you'll have to spend more time knocking
off some of those chores on weeknights, but she says
it's worth having those extra days where you truly get
time to relax and kick back. If your life is
it's so busy you can't take two days completely off,
she suggests giving yourself a one day vacation over the weekend,
like Saturday off, and cram the chores into Sunday. She

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also said it's not something you want to do every weekend.
It works best if you do it occasionally, like after
a rough week. I know what she's talking about, A
rough week after five days straight to pushing this button?
Who too it again for another episode of Deeper in
the Den with Dangerous Dave light Year.