Christmas Day is going to be a diet free zone
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fitfabforties wrote: »I bring my scale to Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner....weigh everything.....no gravy, no dessert, no bread
that is just wrong on so many levels..
I am sure the rest of the people at the gathering just love that....
my mom would whoop my *kitten* if I whipped out a food scale at thanksgiving dinner and started weighing everything....0 -
missiontofitness wrote: »Weightwatcher72 wrote: »OnlyChristmas day mind you
But to be fair Turkey, roast tatties (in trex), boiled veggies and a couple of trimmings aren't going too overboard. Christmas pudding I avoid anyway as I don't like it, and favour a cheesecake or something similar instead.
I've got about 9 people coming over so I'll be stuffed if I can be bothered weighing and counting calories / WW propoints on that one day as well
Boxing Day everything turns to normal
Who's with me?
What is this...diet...you speak of?
Thanksgiving and Christmas are easily going to be 2k+ days for me. My grandma makes the best chocolate truffle for Thanksgiving, and Christmas is where my stepmom makes a giant prime rib. You bet your behind I'm filling up!
Luckily I'll build a big enough deficit during the week through intake and exercise of those to cover them.
only 2000?????
Thanksgiving I will at least hit 5000.....0 -
I did really well last Thanksgiving and Christmas ... and expect to do well again this year. I didn't deprive myself of anything but before I had something I asked myself if I really wanted it or was just going along mindlessly popping food into my mouth. It was the first year I hadn't over-indulged in appetizers so I had room for the main meal and a small desert afterward. I didn't worry about the calories however, because I knew I was eating more food than normal, I just concentrated on how my tummy felt ... the deal was to not overfill till it hurt! Actually, the deal was to still have room in my stomach for digestion.0
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missiontofitness wrote: »Weightwatcher72 wrote: »OnlyChristmas day mind you
But to be fair Turkey, roast tatties (in trex), boiled veggies and a couple of trimmings aren't going too overboard. Christmas pudding I avoid anyway as I don't like it, and favour a cheesecake or something similar instead.
I've got about 9 people coming over so I'll be stuffed if I can be bothered weighing and counting calories / WW propoints on that one day as well
Boxing Day everything turns to normal
Who's with me?
What is this...diet...you speak of?
Thanksgiving and Christmas are easily going to be 2k+ days for me. My grandma makes the best chocolate truffle for Thanksgiving, and Christmas is where my stepmom makes a giant prime rib. You bet your behind I'm filling up!
Luckily I'll build a big enough deficit during the week through intake and exercise of those to cover them.
only 2000?????
Thanksgiving I will at least hit 5000.....
I know right?? I think I will hit 2000 with alcohol alone :P
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missiontofitness wrote: »Weightwatcher72 wrote: »OnlyChristmas day mind you
But to be fair Turkey, roast tatties (in trex), boiled veggies and a couple of trimmings aren't going too overboard. Christmas pudding I avoid anyway as I don't like it, and favour a cheesecake or something similar instead.
I've got about 9 people coming over so I'll be stuffed if I can be bothered weighing and counting calories / WW propoints on that one day as well
Boxing Day everything turns to normal
Who's with me?
What is this...diet...you speak of?
Thanksgiving and Christmas are easily going to be 2k+ days for me. My grandma makes the best chocolate truffle for Thanksgiving, and Christmas is where my stepmom makes a giant prime rib. You bet your behind I'm filling up!
Luckily I'll build a big enough deficit during the week through intake and exercise of those to cover them.
only 2000?????
Thanksgiving I will at least hit 5000.....
I know right?? I think I will hit 2000 with alcohol alone :P
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melimomTARDIS wrote: »How many feasting holidays do we really have in the US? Halloween (candy),Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, 4th of July.... am I missing one?
5 days/meals. I think its the day to day stuff that throws us off course, not the holiday dinners.
Exactly! I didn't get overweight from holiday eating, but from eating like it was a holiday everyday!
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It's not what you eat between Christmas and New Years, it's what you eat between New Years and Christmas!0
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I'm definitely going to eat my favorite foods in moderation (ham I'm looking at you & homemade macaroni salad), but I'll skip over the foods that I'm not that wild about or could eat any day of the week.0
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fitfabforties wrote: »I bring my scale to Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner....weigh everything.....no gravy, no dessert, no bread
that is just wrong on so many levels..
I am sure the rest of the people at the gathering just love that....
my mom would whoop my *kitten* if I whipped out a food scale at thanksgiving dinner and started weighing everything....
OMG, go momma! +10 -
So glad dont need to worry about thanksgiving (live in the uk) christmas day is enough for me! lol0
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Ah the holidays. Working it retail, it has been weeks of staring at Halloween candy since September began. We have the Christmas stuff starting to come out though most is on the super high shelves waiting for the space when we move out the Halloween stuff. Will have extra candy on the shelves till after Easter.
However, I live in a different state than all of my family and I'm working close on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas day (yeah, we're open all day Christmas this year, unfortunately). Living alone means not much cooking either though I'm thinking of making a pecan pie for Thanksgiving so I can bring it to work and others will eat it instead of me. So, I just have to make sure I don't buy too much candy and I'll be just fine. mmm chocolate0 -
Only thing that I worry about is drinking. As I have lost quite a bit of weight I will need to discover my new limits. I may actually have more food for a couple of days in advance.0
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I ate what i wanted last Christmas day, was lovely. However Boxing Day onwards i was ill and didn't eat much of anything. Tonsillitis saw to that!0
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I will try to be mindful, but I also will be eating things that may not fit on a normal calorie day. In fact, I expect there to be a week around each holiday where I go up to maintenance calories just so that I can enjoy the treats and the leftovers. It helps that I can't have booze or chocolate though since that means less stuff for me to go crazy on! My cousin and I are already planning on what we are baking for Christmas!0
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I'm going to enjoy the holidays AND try to keep excess calorie consumption to a minimum. I've been looking at how I can reduce calories from some of my mainstay holiday side dishes. The turkey dressing will just have 1 stick of butter, rather than 2. It won't make any difference in taste, since everyone usually covers it in gravy. Same with the mashed potatoes; less butter and half and half and more milk and a tad of chicken stock. I'm not telling my family- so we'll see if they even notice. I'm roasting some Brussels sprouts with olive oil and Parmesan rather than stewing them in heavy cream and butter.
Since this is THE way I'm going to eat for the rest of my life, I don't see any benefit in 'taking a day off' from mindful eating. Sure, I'll have pumpkin pie and probably eat a bit too much. But it sure isn't going to be a 'free for all' just because it is a holiday.0 -
Christmas is just my Dad and I so no big blow out and I don't cook enough to have days and days worth of left overs. We'll probably have cold seafood for entree and then hot roast, either pork or lamb with roasted veggies for mains and plum pudding for dessert with vanilla bean ice cream. I don't buy chips/ dips/ lollies etc "just in case" someone drops in as no one ever does
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