How Thanksgiving Calories Add Up

How Thanksgiving Calories Add Up Dr. Travis Stork: So we’re going to talk about how quick that your meal can add up so take turkey. I love turkey, six ounces of turkey. So I'm going to start my plate with this turkey, six ounces of turkey. Dr. Lisa Masterson: I like the dark meat. Dr. Travis Stork: I’ll throw that on that too then. Dr. Jim Sears: So put that on too then, the drumstick. Dr. Drew Ordon: I love the drumstick. Dr. Travis Stork: So 450 calories. Jillian Michaels: I don’t know how you get away with this. Dr. Travis Stork: And this is the first serving so-- Jillian Michaels: So who eats that much turkey? Dr. Travis Stork: Oh, you eat more than that. You know what? We might just double it. Dr. Lisa Masterson: I'm going to get some stuffing here and some -- I make my own cranberry sauce, raspberries and cranberries but Jillian I would eat that whole leg. Dr. Jim Sears: Stuffing is 400 calories. Dr. Travis Stork: And the cranberry is an extra 200 calories and that’s just a smaller serving. Dr. Jim Sears: And what about your mashed potatoes. You’ve got to make a nice, big lake in there. You go like a little gravy. Jillian Michaels: You would never really eat like this. Dr. Jim Sears: Oh, this is nothing. Dr. Drew Ordon: But you can’t forget the green bean casserole too. I'm going to load up on this. Jillian Michaels: Wait a minute, hold on. First of all-- Dr. Drew Ordon: Here are some for you. You are guest here at The Doctors. Jillian Michaels: Wait a second, holiday should be about enjoying friends and family, not binging. Dr. Lisa Masterson: You're not binging. Dr. Travis Stork: There is a reason why we’re doing this Jillian. There is a reason why. You’ve got candied, sweet potatoes. That’s an extra 400 calories as well so again the point of us doing this Jillian is we’re trying to teach everyone how quickly these meals add up. Guess what the grand total is, before Drew -- the vino? Dr. Drew Ordon: And actually turkey you can do red or white. I'm going to do a little red today. Jillian Michaels: Look at that, that’s going to be one my binge. It’s been a long week. It is the holidays after all. Dr. Drew Ordon: What we’re going to do, we’d finish this. We’d go for one then we’ll come back and finish. Dr. Lisa Masterson: I agree but you know what we cannot hash up this dessert, okay. This is what I'm talking about. Well, pumpkin pie with the velvet, oh yeah. Dr. Travis Stork: So we’re talking before seconds, we’re talking about a meal of 3439 calories here. Jillian Michaels: That’s a whole pound. That’s one pound. Dr. Travis Stork: That’s like two days worth of food. Jillian Michaels: 3500 calories it’s one pound. Dr. Travis Stork: So that’s before four seconds and this is what is happening in your body when you overeat. You sit down for Thanksgiving meal. You're excited. You're going to eat a good meal, right? Well, you start eating food. Boy, this tastes really good. And that food goes down into your stomach where all these enzymes interact with the food. Your pancreas says, “Hey, you know what? I got to take part. I got to break down these carbohydrates, these protein, these fat molecules. Jillian Michaels: Your whole body is working. Dr. Travis Stork: Your liver is saying, “Okay, well it’s time for me to produce bile, other enzymes and here is the thing, all this is happening and you're drinking alcohol. Well alcohol, what it does is it actually can impair the absorption of certain nutrients and inhibit some of the processing of the healthy things you're eating and of course over time what happens? All that food, the excess food, the excess calories it turns into fat within eight hours. Those excess calories will go into your fat cells within eight hours.