Super Bowl Sunday’s Pigskin Pigout: A Day of Gluttony 2nd Only To Thanksgiving 
Have you heard that Super Bowl Sunday ranks as the second highest day for overeating in America, second only to Thanksgiving?
In fact, as ABC News puts it, it’s the Pigskin Pigout full of Super Bowls Full of Gluttony day!
Wow, that’s a Big Day of Overeating! Which is not a “good thing” if it makes you feel bad about your out-of-control, overeating behaviors, especially if you also had high hopes about losing weight when you made a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight.
The Day of Gluttony second only to Thanksgiving does not bode well for losing all the weight you want to either. In fact, each of these days that comes up can easily serve to set you back further and further rather than leading you easily towards where you want to be.
You’re not the only one though, millions who made a New Year Resolution to lose weight already abandoned it by January 15. It’s just too hard to do a 180 degree turn around after a full holiday season of unaccountable eating, overeating, and emotional eating galore.
Super Bowl Sunday’s Pigskin Pigout: A Day of Gluttony 2nd Only To Thanksgiving
And now… after those New Year Resolutions to lose weight are in the past, here we are on Super Bowl Sunday which really, is the ideal binge eating day. Why? Because it’s a Sunday and Sunday’s are the last supper eating days of the week, to ramp up for the “fresh start” on Monday.
So it’s a triple whammy:
- Super Bowl is on a Sunday, the day of the week all last supper eating goes down.
- Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest binge eating blowout day of the whole year, second only to Thanksgiving.
- Super Bowl Sunday is the milestone that shows you your New Year Resolution to lose weight is kaput and all bets are off for the rest of the year: it’s back to that “status quo” of “I’ll start again Monday” every week.
There’s a huge problem here however, if you want to lose weight. Do you see it?
If it’s not clear, all of this is a big cycle that feeds itself and leads nowhere except to the land of Somedayville and Tomorrowland, those places you can get stuck in a lifetime while you hop from holiday to holiday and excuse to excuse all the while your weight loss goals get further and further away into the distant, faded future that feels impossible to reach out and touch the longer you stay stuck in this cycle of overeating.
Hey, I totally get it, I’ve been stuck there before too. But how will you ever lose the weight by living like this? Living like “I’ll Lose weight AFTER the [fill in the blank]” while there’s always always always something else to prioritize and place your weight loss goals “AFTER”.
What Can You DO If You’ve Pigged Out on Pigskin Pigout Day?
Here’s something important to look at: Exactly how many days are there throughout the year when you “give in to gluttony” because you have the excuse of “It’s my birthday!” or “It’s Thanksgiving Day!” or, “It’s Super Bowl Sunday!!”
Now of course, if you feel really good about overeating on these or any days throughout the year, then you don’t have much need for this article because….you feel good about how you eat and the body you live in!
However, if you are like most who feel desperate to break the shackles of longstanding struggles with food and your weight, then each one of these days that comes around when you engage in gluttony just because it’s “Super Bowl Sunday” or “It’s the weekend!” (hey, there are 52 weekends in a year!) then perhaps this is something for you to look at. IF what you truly desire for yourself is a permanent solution to your ongoing struggles with overeating, overweight, and self-sabotage.
What’s very exciting is that all of this CAN be turned around. How? By getting a weight loss mindset. Once you have that (mindset is 90% of your problem, or solution!) then you’ll never again tell yourself, “It’s Super Bowl Sunday so I might as well Pig Out on Pigskin day!” because that’s not how a person with a weight loss mindset even thinks.
When you have a weight loss mindset you enjoy the day. If you love the Super Bowl then you enjoy all parts of it. When you have a weight loss mindset Super Bowl Sunday is no longer about the FOOD. Instead it’s about the fun, the experience, the people you are with, the engagement, and the game!
Otherwise, as long as you continue living with an F.A.T. Mindset then Super Bowl Sunday, Thanksgiving Day, Saturday night, vacation time, ANY day or event that you associate with food and overeating will continue to cause you stress and anxiety. (Not sure if you have an F.A.T. Mindset? Grab my FREE E-course to discover the answer!)
Besides your own struggles with your weight, overeating, and self-sabotage, it is quite interesting that Super Bowl Sunday equals “Let’s Pig Out” on the same scale as Thanksgiving Day. It’s a good example of the associations that so many make with events and food, this one being a hook-up or association between Super Bowl Sunday and a free-for-all day of overeating.
What about you – what is your association with Super Bowl Sunday? Are you dreading it because you don’t want to give in to gluttony, or are you looking forward to it?
If you’re looking forward to it is that because of the game, the commercials, half-time, or because of the food?
Do you associate Super Bowl Sunday with eating whatever you want while watching the game with family and friends, or do you not care about the game day at all and therefore have no concern that you’ll be overeating?
Or maybe you’ve planned out healthy snack alternatives for the day because it’s so easy for you to do without any struggle or force?
Go ahead and leave a comment with what this day means to you. Do you agree with ABC News, that’s it’s the second largest “Pig Out” day next to Thanksgiving? That Super Bowl Sunday is a royal day of gluttony?
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I ate way too much during the Super Bowl this year. In hindsight, I know it was a nervous habit. I kept snacking and drinking beer because I was nervous about the outcome. However, this only happens when my team (the New England Patriots) is in the game. Last year during the Bears – Colts game I didn’t drink any beer and barely touched the food.
Hi Mike,
It sounds like you can relate to the talk that Super Bowl Sunday is a huge eating day, and at the same time, you brought up a good point about emotional eating – many people do have strong emotions attached to the Super Bowl, and if they’re emotional eaters it would follow that they would overeat during the game. Thanks for commenting and making that connection, I didn’t really think about the emotional eating tie-in before.