 Alright ladies and gentlemen, so today we are going to be talking about how to get and stay lean during Thanksgiving. Hey, it was Endude Nation, what's going on ladies and gentlemen, Dan Whitmer here today and I wanted to shoot this video, do it a little different because Brenda and I are always playing around with different camera techniques and we're trying to make these videos as high quality as we possibly can, so I thought we'd do a little experiment where we switch to vlog style and just kind of set the camera up and go as opposed to you know hooking the mic up and getting all intense with it, it's just easier we can shoot more videos and give you guys more information and more content if we can shoot these and get these out faster. So let me know if you guys like this style of video or if you're like oh my god the audience sound bad Dan go back to the old kind and you know we'll consider it, consider it but this is pretty nice, not going to lie just set the camera up and go. So here in the United States and Canada also I found out in the Netherlands it is Thanksgiving tomorrow so if you are someone who celebrates Thanksgiving and I did not mention your country please let me know because I didn't know other countries celebrated Thanksgiving. So guys typically around the holidays that gives people a lot of excuses starting with Thanksgiving, they go home for Thanksgiving or they have a big family meal and then that kind of starts this domino effect of just eating crappy food and then blaming the reason why they can't get fit on the fact that it's the holidays. I would get fit but like I have to eat like a whole pie every day because it's the holidays. Yeah I was going to go to the gym but then like you know my buddies were like dude you're never home we have to get wasted for the whole month. So I'm in Austin Texas right now and I'm going home to my girlfriend's parents place in Atlanta Georgia my girlfriend's parents they are really good cooks so I'm pretty excited to stuff my face. So guys how do you make the holidays a win-win where you get to eat delicious food but at the same time you still stay on track to your goals of getting lean. In this video I'm just going to share a few tips that Brandon and I implement around Thanksgiving around Christmas but pretty much even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas you can use the tips that I'm about to give you in any life circumstance where you know that there's a day where you're going to be consuming a lot of food. So it could be a festival that you're out with friends and family it could be a birthday it could just be a family gathering it could be a holiday that we here in the United States don't celebrate that you do celebrate so tell me actually tell me which holiday you celebrate where you in your country eat a lot of food and then let me know which country you're from tell me the country that you're from wait tell me the country that you're from in the holiday that you typically consume the most food as the first tip that I typically do is on a regular day of eating remember your ability to get lean and stay lean is totally dependent upon calories and macronutrients that is the biggest contributing factor to how you're going to look so during the week I eat in a calorie deficit I don't on the weekend so my week my weekday calories are somewhere between 2,500 and 2,700 but since I know that I'm going to be consuming a ton of food tomorrow I cut back on my calories today I'm also cutting out most of those calories in carbs so I'm lowering my carbs because I know that tomorrow I'm going to be eating a lot of rich indulgent carb carb rich food another thing guys intermittent fasting so Brandon I always talk about intermittent fasting we have a video on it right here if you don't know what it is be sure to check that out if you already do then you know that Brandon and I typically break our fast every day around 2 p.m. but today Wednesday I'm breaking it around 4 or 5 so I get a little bit you know a couple more hours just to ensure that my body is burning that stored fat that it needs to before I have my feast tomorrow now in terms of working out guys it's super important to get a very strenuous full body workout in either the day of or the day before your feast basically when you eat food there's one of two places it's going to go to your muscle cells or to your fat cells so if you don't do any kind of working out beforehand and you go to eat all that indulgent food tomorrow most of that food is going to be stored by your fat cells because the food goes in and looks at your muscle cells and it's like well they weren't really doing anything so they don't really require any energy therefore we can just go and be stored for energy that needs to be used at a later time but if you use all the muscles in your body including resistance training or weight training and a very high intensity workout beforehand then when you go to eat all that food tomorrow your body is basically like dude I need nutrients and it will go more of that food will go to your muscle cells as opposed to your fat cells so if you want to get some weight workouts in before you hit Thanksgiving dinner check out our gaining muscle course which is linked below here focused on just eating one or two humongous meals don't graze because when you are grazing you are constantly filling your body with food and glucose so your body is constantly like oh I have to go burn that fuel because this person keeps putting food into my body now instead of doing that just eat two big meals so that you can eat indulge feast have a good time and then be done with it so your body can get to work burning those calories and minimize the damage that you would experience the next day up to a week after that big meal so I fly into Atlanta Thursday morning and then we'll probably eat around five maybe like four five p.m. so I probably will not eat up until that point I'm gonna stuff my face feast like crazy it's gonna be amazing then I'm gonna rest for an hour or two and then I feast for dessert I'm talking yeah I might have I might have three or four pieces of apple pie what's it to you what's it to you it's fine because my muscles are accepting some of that glucose and they're being rebuilt junk food can work for you if you eat it at the right times after an intense workout and lastly guys alcohol I am someone who openly consumes alcohol in moderation I enjoy it with friends and family and if you do that's fine too if you don't drink don't worry about it you don't this part does not apply to you if you do drink don't go off the rails guys it's okay to have fun and enjoy a few drinks with family and friends but don't sabotage your weight loss and getting lean goals because you get super drunk and then eat a bunch of food so guys alcohol is kind of a double whammy not only does it give you additional calories but it's a toxin so the body wants to get rid of it as soon as it enters your body so for example when you eat food without alcohol what typically happens is the body starts to burn that food food comes in the body starts to burn the food so I can get rid of it but when you drink alcohol the body shuts down whatever it's doing or burning at that time and says hey we have alcohol in our system it's a toxin it's a poison we need to get it out let's make sure we burn it out of the system so you can imagine what happens when if you are eating food and drinking alcohol essentially you are keeping all that food to be stored probably most likely as fat because your body has spent so much time burning off the alcohol before it can start burning the food from the Zen dudes to your friends and family we want to wish you guys a happy Thanksgiving and remember use these throughout all the holiday season and also this doesn't just necessarily apply to the holidays guys you should be using these tactics to make sure that the food you're eating is yes delicious but also working for you rather than against you if you like this video go ahead and give it a thumbs up below followed by a subscribe to get free week whoa so guys go ahead and subscribe if you would like to get lean and sexy with the jump rope and you'll buy