Thanksgiving.. Are you ready?

CadenDavid

What are some of your plans to prepare yourselves for the feast of the year? Are you going to go nuts and eat all that you can? Or are you going to hang back and nibble?

TeaBea

I plan on eating at maintenance. If that doesn't work out, not a huge deal.

dopeysmelly

It's one day. I intend to eat and drink whatever I want.

cwolfman13

CadenDavid wrote: »

What are some of your plans to prepare yourselves for the feast of the year? Are you going to go nuts and eat all that you can? Or are you going to hang back and nibble?

I'm sure I'll be over calories, but I don't go crazy...I don't enjoy being "stuffed"...it's unpleasant. I will enjoy the day celebrating with my friends and family...it's one friggin' day...none of this is predicated on a singular day.

My wife and I have a 4 year standing tradition of doing the 5K Turkey Trot in the morning...then I will go home and start getting food ready...also, we don't really have much for breakfast on feast days, usually something fairly small...we'll start putting appetizers out around 1 and eat at 3 or 4...so basically I'm eating one large meal with some appetizers and a very small breakfast...no biggie.

And really most of what we're having is pretty healthy...I'm the cook...but really, we're talking about some lean poultry, several veggie options...some potatoes and sweet potatoes...pretty healthy...just don't go back for a gazillion helpings...just because it's a holiday doesn't mean you need to stuff yourself until you're sick.

hawkmancody

Going to be havin smoked turkey:D but beings as I intermittent fast I'll have plenty of calories for the meal

CooCooPuff

I'm not at all ready. The family usually just gets turkey from a restaurant, but I like to bake a few desserts and have no idea what to make.

vingogly

Whether I eat at someone's house or go out to a restaurant, I get reasonable portions of my holiday favorites, eat them slowly and enjoy them, and have a nice slice of pumpkin or mince meat pie for dessert. I might even have a couple of thin slices of different desserts.

Key for me is, I enjoy everything, feel zero guilt, and I don't go overboard or get that awful "stuffed" feeling.

Spliner1969

I am ready to eat until I burst! lol.. not really but I will be eating a lot. I'm currently about 11 lbs or more under my original goal weight so no way one day of debauchery will screw me up too much. I'll probably do extra exercise the day before and the day of if there's time, but other than that I'll be eating what I want.

stephi9

Thanksgiving sounds wonderful!!!! I see it in the movies

iiRenity

I'm going to eat as much as I want! I'll do my exercise before we leave, and log things, but I'm sure I'm going to be over.

marm1962

Only 2 weeks on Keto , so I will be making some adjustments to my menu to include the things I can eat, but I will probably eat at my maintenance ...if I can eat that much this way....lol

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

To prepare for the big day?

1. Stock up on champagne and orange juice - I like to have a couple of mimosas while I'm watching the parade and cooking.
2. Buy stretchy pants.
3. ....
4. Profit.

Dano74

I plan to enjoy the bleepity bleep out of Thanksgiving. The long game demands it.

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sardelsa

I'm so jealous.. I am Canadian so we already had ours. But I want another go at it !! *Gobble gobble*

malibu927

It's one meal, and I work that day so I won't be any less active than normal. Eat light during the day, enjoy all the food (probably about 1500-2000 calories), go back to a deficit Friday.

stephi9

I'm Australian so we don't have it

jemhh

We will be going to Cracker Barrel. No second servings or leftovers for me. No complaints

crzycatlady1

I'm not a big Thanksgiving food fan. I don't like turkey and most of the sides, so I usually just have a roll, stuffing and green bean casserole. Calorie wise it's no higher than a regular meal for me.

bbell1985

I have no self control. I'll probably maintain a steep deficit the whole week and just go nuts that day and call it a maintenance week. Last year I really overdid it though and it took me so long to get the bloat down.

fishshark

i dont log or care. 1 im cooking for like a billion people and want to enjoy myself with friends and family. I eat and drink to my hearts content and keep it moving the next day. i am not every going to cook for 10 people and build recipies and log everything. nope.

i said in another post from thanksgiving to new years i endulge and go pretty crazy. I keep my activity as high as possible and it has never caused weight gain besides water weight. i love it all... the food.. the baked foods.. the drinking.. the parties.. the cheer and friends and family. I live for the holidays.

i make a drink thats apple cidar, cinnamon sticks, a little brown sugar, and a bottle of whiskey. it sits on the stove warm and we just drink it all day/night. haha YES WINTERTIME!!

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

fishshark wrote: »

i make a drink thats apple cidar, cinnamon sticks, a little brown sugar, and a bottle of whiskey. it sits on the stove warm and we just drink it all day/night. haha YES WINTERTIME!!

So, like, does this drink have a common name? I would like to Google it.







For science.

sgt1372

I always buy a turkey to roast b4 TG because it is so cheaply priced during the season but there's no "family" left to share it with. So, i have no concerns about overeating. I just freeze and make stock out of most of it.

fishshark

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »

fishshark wrote: »

i make a drink thats apple cidar, cinnamon sticks, a little brown sugar, and a bottle of whiskey. it sits on the stove warm and we just drink it all day/night. haha YES WINTERTIME!!

So, like, does this drink have a common name? I would like to Google it.







For science.

i took a recipe called hot apple pie and decided to put a bottle of whiskey in it haha. A lot of recipies also call for both apple juice and apple cidar i dont think its necessary.

2 gallons of apple cidar
6 cinnamon sticks
anout 1/4 cup of brown sugar (depends how sweet cidar is)
bottle o whiskey.

MalkinMagic71

Thanksgiving is a day that I eat what I want in huge quantities and don't care. It's one day. I enjoy it with family and get back on track the next day.

Chef_Barbell

I am going to eat all the foods and drink all the drinks... I FINALLY get to have some alcohol. :drinker:

Gallowmere1984

I will be doing full body depletion sessions the day before and day of. Then I shall allow the wonder that is lobster lasagna to refill all of the things. Because *kitten* turkey; we eat enough of that *kitten* the rest of the year.

trigden1991

I will be in large deficit the week before, fully deplete myself doing a full body workout the night before and then eat everything in sight for a few days to replenish my glycogen stores and leptin.

WinoGelato

We celebrate once on Thursday with my husband's family and once on Saturday with mine. Because of that, it's actually a little easier to keep things in check at each celebration since I don't have that "it's only one day" mindset and I know there will be more goodies to enjoy. Plus on those days I tend to only eat a very small breakfast and try to get in a long walk in the morning - so then one big meal each day tends to put me around or just above maintenance calories.

It's my third year on MFP and every year after it's over and there's no permanent damage on the scale (short term water weight only) I think, man I should have had a second piece of pecan pie... perhaps this year.

BigGuy47

I'll exercise in the morning. Eat way too much. Rationalize that I'm on a special one day bulk. And finally fall asleep watching a football.game.

That's my strategy.

littlechiaseed

Thanksgiving food is so freakin gross to me so no worries since I won't be eating most of it.