BEING SOCIAL

At the time of writing this, we’re just coming off a holiday weekend (Easter). While it’s great to see family and celebrate the reason for the season, a question I often get is: how to handle it from a nutrition standpoint?

This is a good question, as depending on who you ask or what calendar you use, there are anywhere between seven to eleven major holidays in the United States. Throw in your birthday and perhaps an anniversary, that averages out to more than one per month.

While that sounds like a lot, let’s just say that comes out to fifteen days a year. Here’s the good news, there are 350 other days of the year that are normal days. Another way to say this is that holidays make up 4.3% of the year.

There are two things that I want to point out with these numbers. First, if you are on-point 95.7% days out of the year, you are going to absolutely crush your goals. Second, depending on how many of those fifteen holidays actually matter to you, the amount ratio is likely even smaller.

The take home message is this. Unless a holiday falls within weeks of a big goal of something you’re shooting for (like a bodybuilding competition or something similar), if you use good judgement and get right back on the wagon, you’re going to not only still hit your goals, but you’re going create some great memories in the process of being awesome.