Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Although I certainly don't endorse extreme gluttony and complete debauchery on the American

holiday feast of Thanksgiving, I highly doubt that you plan on completely

refraining from that extra helping of mashed potatoes or an overflowing ladle full of gravy,

especially if you're anything like me and you like to just let go and live every now and

again. Well, last year I tweeted on Get Fit Guy's Twitter page at

Twitter.com slash get fit guy that the average American eats about 3,000 to 3,500 calories

during Thanksgiving, and that's 14,500 jumping jacks. Well, thankfully, there are faster and more fun ways to burn calories from the turkey extravaganza.

So today, you're going to get four quick and dirty tips to enhance the speed of your post- Thanksgiving calorie burn.

And now on to my four ways to burn Thanksgiving calories fast.

My first tip is the six-minute trick.

While an after-dinner stroll certainly doesn't burn many calories,

although it's better than doing absolutely nothing at all,

a recent study that I'll link to over in the show notes at quick and dirty tips.com

proved that a brief six-minute

exercise snack before a big meal is a time-efficient and effective way to improve blood sugar

control after that meal. The study showed that an intense six-minute walk, like walking up a really

steep hill or on an inclined treadmill, 30 minutes before a

big meal, significantly improved glycemic response to that meal. And since surges in blood sugar

can lead to big deposits in belly fat, this is great news. Not going anywhere near a hill or a treadmill

this Thanksgiving? Well, no problem. You can also

...