just a little bit tired of the "how are you plannig to eat in the holydays" post?

malavika413

This makes me happy that Thanksgiving is healthy at my house (none of us like Thanksgiving food) and that we don't celebrate Christmas.

MyChocolateDiet

no

karyabc wrote: »

MyChocolateDiet wrote: »

Okay karyabc, I guess you're right. I can just eat my regular amount of calories on Christmas. The only thing I feel I HAVE to have on Christmas is gingerbread cookies, so I'm pretty sure I can fit those into my cal goal. Probably just replace my daily french toast & bacon breakfast with a coffee and eggs breakfast. That should make room for me to have gingerbread men later. I'll try your way this year. Let's see what happens.

hahahaahaha i thought you were being sarcastic!! anyway, nice! hope it goes really well, i'll be trying to do the same thing.

no i wasn't even though i could see why you might think that. but yeah, I'm a little over stuffing my face with everything in sight on christmas. i feel like I do this at thanksgiving and those foods are special and whatnot to that holiday but christmas is just a slew of random sweets and foods I could pretty much get anytime. with the exception of the gingerbread cookies. i plan to have those.

MyChocolateDiet

^that's weird? how did I top post AND bottom post? does this mean I'm bisezual?

Kalikel

Think it's great that people think about it and plan for it. Some will make the choice to treat it as any other day and others will indulge. The diet isn't over because you have pie on Thanksgiving. If you gain a pound or two that week, you can re lose them the next.

It's great that people share strategies, ideas and jokes about it.

kenyainez

And the end of the day, it's just life. When the holidays are a wrap in most of the world, in New Orleans, Mardi Gras will be well on our heels. It's not just one day, depending on how you celebrate it you can parade every day or every weekend. Especially the weekend prior to Mardi Gras. From that Thursday to that Tuesday it's filled with parades, mardi gras balls, cook outs on the route, or grabbin' some Popeyes while you're walking down St. Charles Ave catching every parade for that day. Not to mention, the Super Bowl is right before that, so somebody somewhere will have a party with some not so healthy food items. After that, crawfish fest, french quarter fest, jazz fest, and a festival nearly every weekend; not to mention birthday parties, weddings, office parties, or gatherings filled with food and laughter just because. During the holidays or throughout the rest of the year, we simply have to learn balance. Make a decision if you're gonna log, eat at a deficit, not go to the event, or just to or say to hayul with it, I'm not counting a dayum thing and I'm going completely in! You have to be focused on your goals and be mindful about what you're doing and determine whether or not this will hurt you and knock you off course. There's never going to be a stretch of time when nothing fun is going on so just have a level of self control to know what you should or should'nt do and you'll be good.

Linnaea27

I do have to agree that it is maybe a little obsessive-seeming, all the posts on how to get through the holidays, but I feel somewhat the same way as for me it's not just one/two days, as others are saying. I think worrying about it too much is not great. But I am worrying about it somewhat because we have:

My family's Thanksgiving
My fiance's family's Thanksgiving (Saturday)
His family's Thanksgiving leftover dinner (Sunday/Monday)
Leftovers brought home from my family's. . . .
Then December gatherings
Then his family's Christmas
My family's Christmas
And my fiance's birthday!

Eeek! For some of these things it is easy to control food quantity. For the actual holiday meals, not so easy (especially at my fiance's family's house, because his mother serves everyone for some reason and she overfeeds us all; I am going to try to prevent this this year!).

I am hoping for early snow so I can do some xc skiing. Or not-too-cold weather so I can do an hour run on the Thanksgivings!

mlrtri

I don't want to come off as rude, but I think it is best not to assume you know what people are thinking. I know I have come up with guidelines on how I am going to hopefully successfully stay on my weight loss course during the weeks surrounding the holidays that are full of pitch ins, large meals, extra goodies, etc. I am not looking for justification for overeating, I don't plan to overeat, and I don't think it is a bad thing for people to share their ideas. That being said, everyone is allowed their opinions.

MysteriousMerlin

Not everyone has the same amount of control. For some, having just the one day of overeating is fine. For others (like me), it just starts a downward spiral throughout the season.

randomtai

malavika413 wrote: »

This makes me happy that Thanksgiving is healthy at my house (none of us like Thanksgiving food) and that we don't celebrate Christmas.

970Mikaela1

Hornsby wrote: »

I'm going for 30K calories on Thanksgiving day and Christmas day.

Both days together? Or 30000 each day? Either way, I'm cheering for ya! At thanksgiving I'm planning 4 5000 calorie days.

rererangi03

Xmas when at functions or around people where food is a thing, im just going to make sure i eat no more than my maintain amount of calories.
At least then i will not get any bigger.

Lumpy52403

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQXjauCxx8

karyabc

mlrtri wrote: »

I don't want to come off as rude, but I think it is best not to assume you know what people are thinking. I know I have come up with guidelines on how I am going to hopefully successfully stay on my weight loss course during the weeks surrounding the holidays that are full of pitch ins, large meals, extra goodies, etc. I am not looking for justification for overeating, I don't plan to overeat, and I don't think it is a bad thing for people to share their ideas. That being said, everyone is allowed their opinions.

hi! no you didn't come off as rude, i understand and respect your opinion

SteveMFP123

I'm going to eat what I want on Christmas day, it's one day of the year and I'm not going to worry about weight loss for 24 hours, if that means I lose no weight for the week so be it.