Avoid Pigging Out on Football Sundays

Now that the football season is here again, I know that I’m going to have to ramp up for having more willpower since we happen to be the gathering point of all our football watching friends and also we happen to always buy lots of chips, dips and appetizers, on top of a “meal” food like pizza or some other ridiculously fattening fare that makes you think of football sundays. 

Oh, and pile on the beer or other alcoholic beverages that are bound to be consumed and you have a recipe for unavoidable weight gain every start of the NFL season.  At least that’s how it works for me and my fiance. 

We almost always put on weight during the football season, however I’m determined to not do it this time.  It seems like that one little day of pigging out nonstop leads to a barrage of eating badly and wanting MORE MORE MORE.  More fat, more sugar and more heavy, stick to your thighs good.  Sure, it tastes great while you’re eating it, but it leads to a bigger overall appetite, a slower pace mentally and physically, and countless Mondays hung over from drinking on Sundays.  Not a good combo, my friend!

So, my strategy this time is to actually do what I always do, which is work at my “other job” for half the time on Sundays that people are here, which will inevitably keep little paws out of the cookie jar, so to speak. And by cookie jar, I mean keep it out of the endless bowls of chips, pretzels, fattening sour cream based dips, cheesy surprises, sauerkraut balls, mini pigs in a blanket, and all the other good, greasy fare that tends to go with those fun football sundays.  There’s a huge part of me that loves the whole ritual, but my body definitely does not appreciate it in the end. 

I looked at pictures of myself after football season last year, and my face looked puffy and unhealthy, and that made me really think about what I was putting into my body.  Not just on Sundays either, it’s because it’s a domino effect, and it always ends up trailing out into the whole week, or at least into Monday and Tuesday. 

That adds up to a lot of calories and a lot of careless meal choices that can’t be reversed except with a lot of discipline and dieting for the next several months.  If you’re a victim of football sunday overeating, take my advice, sit out at least one part of the day, and join the rest of the buffet in the evening, so at least you won’t be eating all day long and be able to stop the unstoppable inertia of overeating.