Logging on thanksgiving?

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  • healthy_hermione
    healthy_hermione Posts: 64 Member
    i'm not logging because it's so hard to guesstimate how much i ate lol. so i just logged my breakfast and am just going to assume that i went over my calorie limit for the day.
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    I logged thanksgiving. I know that a lot of people reason not logging by saying that it's one day a year and that it's the other 365 that make you gain weight, but I look at it like this: Yes, thanksgiving is "only one day". But so is Christmas. And Halloween. And New Year's. And your birthday. And the neighbor's cookout. All those "just one day"s add up to a lot of days.

    Besides, it's pretty easy for me to log in holidays anyway. I can't eat wheat or milk (unless it's lactose-free), so that eliminates most potluck dishes for me. I just ate a baked sweet potato and some raw veggies at dinner with my extended family, which was easy enough to log, and are a better meal when I got home.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,098 Member
    Strawblackcat wrote: »
    I logged thanksgiving. I know that a lot of people reason not logging by saying that it's one day a year and that it's the other 365 that make you gain weight, but I look at it like this: Yes, thanksgiving is "only one day". But so is Christmas. And Halloween. And New Year's. And your birthday. And the neighbor's cookout. All those "just one day"s add up to a lot of days.

    Besides, it's pretty easy for me to log in holidays anyway. I can't eat wheat or milk (unless it's lactose-free), so that eliminates most potluck dishes for me. I just ate a baked sweet potato and some raw veggies at dinner with my extended family, which was easy enough to log, and are a better meal when I got home.

    Easy for me to log, too. Just copied and edited last year's Thanksgiving. The only difference for the main meal was the type of wine and the rolls, which I made using a different recipe from last year, and I had already entered the recipe while the dough was rising. For the apps this year I only had one that is always on our Thanksgiving menu (turkey liver "pate" -- actually more like chopped liver), so I deleted the others from last year. I did have to swap out last year's apple pie for this year's cherry hand pie.

    Admittedly, lots of estimating involved. Came out to about 1500 for the main meal, and about 2900 for the day, which still leaves me on course for a small deficit for the week.
  • wrenak
    wrenak Posts: 144 Member
    I feel like a failure. I got my food last so I didn't hold anyone up, but I weighed (they had the scale set out for me knowing that I would). I put everything on my plate that I wanted, in the quantities that looked good to me, and logged their weights. I ate everything on my plate. I was comfortably satisfied, but not stuffed. I'm not even at my minimum for the day! I used to be able to pack it away like a champ. *sigh*
  • incisron
    incisron Posts: 550 Member
    I wasn't planning to eat more than my calories today, as we don't even celebrate Thanksgiving. When I heard my mom was making chicken, baked mac n cheese, potato salad and possibly dressing, i wasn't certain of the calories in the mac n cheese or chicken and decided at first I'd just look up the recipe mom was using for dressing and try to choose between a portion of mac and 800 something calories of dressing, my fave foods. In the end, i just had a portion of all three dishes (mom didn't have cornmeal for dressing :( ) plus desserts and probably went over. A little annoyed with myself, but just hope i do gr8 tomorrow.
  • ZeXea
    ZeXea Posts: 168 Member
    I actually decided to log it, for fun, see how much i ate how fat ill get. Welp, my meal came to like, 1700 calories? LOL
    Really not bad at all. I thought I would honestly hit 3000 for the day.
    Pretty pleased with myself, I enjoyed that meal immensely! :)
    Happy thanksgiving everyone!

  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    It's actually pretty funny now that I think about it. I can't eat (regular) bread or rolls, but I love making it, and I'm really good at it. My family always has me make them since everyone loves them, and I'm more than happy to comply, but I can't enjoy them myself. :D Oh well, more calories for me, I guess!
  • mdoljansky
    mdoljansky Posts: 35 Member
    Logging on had literally stopped me from over eating.. Although not over drinking
  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    blambo61 wrote: »
    blambo61 wrote: »
    I will pre log, here goes - 10,000 calories. Think I'm being too conservative? I can only hope that I can get that much in me. It's a Holiday for Heaven's sake. Enjoy and feast! You may gain 3-5 lbs of food weight but probably less than a lb of fat weight. 3 days from now, you will be back where you were (unless you keep feasting) IMHO.

    I'm upset, my shrunk stomach has probably only gotten in 3k cals today, I cant eat much more.

    Mon before thanksgiving 220 lbs. Sunday after thanksgiving 223lbs. Two days later 220lbs.
  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    blambo61 wrote: »
    I will pre log, here goes - 10,000 calories. Think I'm being too conservative? I can only hope that I can get that much in me. It's a Holiday for Heaven's sake. Enjoy and feast! You may gain 3-5 lbs of food weight but probably less than a lb of fat weight. 3 days from now, you will be back where you were (unless you keep feasting) IMHO.

    Went up 3 from mon before Thanksgiving to Sunday after and back down where I started today.
  • dalielahdawn
    dalielahdawn Posts: 141 Member
    "It's only one day" lmao.
    So is Christmas, New Years, Valentine's, my birthday, anniversary, family visiting. And others. They're all just one day, alone. But they add up. Sure I went over by double what I usually do on thanksgiving, but I logged it and factored it in the rest of my week. I came out 2 pounds lighter that week, just like every other has been for now.
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