thanksgiving

annaclaireblack
annaclaireblack Posts: 63 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
is anybody tracking on thanksgiving? will i see a significant change in my body if I'm still working out everyday but i don't track for a few days because of the holiday?
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  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I won't track, but I won't go crazy either. One day is 0.2% of the year, so just enjoy it.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited November 2016
    Depends on if not tracking means your going to eat everything in sight or maintain good portions/reasoning


    I don't really see why thanksgiving is so special and why giving thanks means id need to gorge myself on food...So im not much help XD
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    It's one day out of a whole year of watching what I eat, I'm having fun!
  • Paschen81
    Paschen81 Posts: 151 Member
    I will continue to track... Even on Thanksgiving... This is my way of staying accountable.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    I will.
    I tracked the past two years. I had about 2,000 calories that day and did not gain weight.
    Don't make it a week or two of going over your maintenance calories instead of just a day or two.
  • DeficitDuchess
    DeficitDuchess Posts: 3,099 Member
    edited November 2016
    I am going to 2 Thanksgiving bingo events, this Thursday (If I'm well enough) & my Sister's cooking on Thanksgiving Day. I'll have only 1 Thanksgiving meal & it'll be at the 1st Bingo because I've had it before & it's delicious! Plus they ration it; so I am unable to choose to; pile my plate. The 2nd 1's an all in 1 dinner sandwich & I dislike having all of that on bread, plus I'l possibly still; be satiated & my Sister cooks, the same things; every year. Things that I'd be able to have all year, in fewer quantities at once; so I'll skip that also! I never guesstimate, so I just won't log that or my exercise calories, for the day; to help level my consumption!
  • Dogmom1978
    Dogmom1978 Posts: 1,580 Member
    Honestly, it's still a good idea to track it. That way you can see exactly how it impacts your week. The only person you are going to hurt by not tracking it is yourself. Just because you continue to track for the holiday doesn't mean you can't eat what you want. It just means that you are going to know how badly it affects your calories for the next holiday!
  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    edited November 2016
    A little levity. Hope the link works.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=mW2GAnVIElk

    I'll work out in the morning and then probably track informally because I can't help myself.

    eta: How does one put a video in a comment?
  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    BABY!!! Beautiful! Congratulations!
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    edited November 2016
    Sara1791 wrote: »
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    BABY!!! Beautiful! Congratulations!

    Thanks :smiley:
  • Sumiblue
    Sumiblue Posts: 1,597 Member
    I may not track but I'm cooking so I'll be able to control what goes into the food. Also, I will be able to keep up my training schedule (weight room at home). Turkey gains!
  • goingtobefit2015
    goingtobefit2015 Posts: 408 Member
    I'm not going to track but I will be conscientious of my eating!
  • pmastro724
    pmastro724 Posts: 122 Member
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    AWWW! CONGRATS! Beautiful baby! Ive always seen your posts and was wondering when/if you had baby!
  • pmastro724
    pmastro724 Posts: 122 Member
    I will NOT be tracking on Turkey Day
  • Spliner1969
    Spliner1969 Posts: 3,233 Member
    I do track mine usually, and I also exercise that day as well as try to do extra burns to compensate on the days preceding the holiday. This year we'll be doing thanksgiving the day after (scheduling reasons) so I have the day before and the day of off from work with nothing much to do. Since the family isn't showing up on Thanksgiving day, the wife and I will probably go out to eat somewhere and that'll be a lot of calories as well. Mondays are usually my rest days so I will rest but this next week it'll be an active rest day to burn some extra in prep. After the holidays I'll also be doing some extra exercise to compensate for leftovers lol. So I eat what I want, and I still log, but I deal with it through physical activity. Usually within a week or so after Thanksgiving I'm usually at the same weight I was before lol. I pretty much do the same for Christmas.

    I do one caveat though.. I will create a meal called "Thanksgiving dinner", pre-log what I think I'm going to eat, and add that to my diary. Then I eat what I want knowing full well it's probably not accurate. I will either adjust that meal later or forget about it and move on.
  • laur357
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    I track, but don't limit my calories at all and don't make lighter versions of anything. I also usually do some sort of exercise before the cooking starts.
    The tracking of food is a habit now, and I try to keep it up - eating over my deficit or maintenance is fine sometimes, I just need to be aware it's happening.

    You won't undo all your work with a day of overeating. I think you just need to be able to get back to it quickly after a day or two.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    Me too! I plan on repeating this feat again. :D
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    pmastro724 wrote: »
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    AWWW! CONGRATS! Beautiful baby! Ive always seen your posts and was wondering when/if you had baby!

    Thanks! :smiley:
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I don't cook a great deal of stuff for Thanksgiving. If anything, I'll have calories remaining on my budget after the "Thanksgiving meal". The bigger issue for me is Christmas, which is going to have more sweets, two cakes and a pie from the Collin Street Bakery. I may be logging that stuff into February.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    edited November 2016
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    In my Big Eat days this would have been nothing! >:)
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    edited November 2016
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    I don't cook a great deal of stuff for Thanksgiving. If anything, I'll have calories remaining on my budget after the "Thanksgiving meal". The bigger issue for me is Christmas, which is going to have more sweets, two cakes and a pie from the Collin Street Bakery. I may be logging that stuff into February.

    We are just doing the four of us (myself, my husband and our two youngest) this Thanksgiving as we are going away. And we realized: we don't need all that food we usually cook. Half of it the kids don't even eat, then we're left with tons of leftovers...it seems silly...like serious excess. So this year we will have pie, sure, and of course turkey and green beans and maybe sweet potatoes...but I literally can not see that we will need anything more than that. I am toying with the idea of stuffing just for tradition but if so, it will be one small pie tin of stuffing, not a giant tray. We just don't need it and we will surely be full on the above, which by itself is actually a feast. :)

    I'll cook more on Christmas because we will be having people over but I'll be sending a lot home. It just is too much, our kids don't need that much food and neither do we grownups.
  • prettygirlstorm1
    prettygirlstorm1 Posts: 721 Member
    No tracking and I am going to go crazy!!!
  • leejoyce31
    leejoyce31 Posts: 794 Member
    I'll just eat my normal deficit that day. No special plans. I will just enjoy being off from work and relaxing. I can't wait! :)
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    We don't celebrate thanksgiving so all 3 members of my household will be working (so we can give someone else the day/evening off who does celebrate). But like any other holiday-i would still track but be a bit more lenient.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    I think I'll track it, but I'm not going to restrict what I enjoy that day. It's a lot of work to put that meal together and I'm going to eat every ounce of what I want to. The real work is confining the splurge to that day with all the leftovers hanging around. I figure some turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, dressing, dinner rolls, pie, and whipped cream for one day is the cost of doing business for the pleasure of having a great meal with my family.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    LAWoman72 wrote: »
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    I love seeing how much I can get the calories up. I'm sadistic. Last year I got to 4000 calories. :laugh:

    In my Big Eat days this would have been nothing! >:)

    Challenge accepted. :laugh:
  • workinonit1956
    workinonit1956 Posts: 1,043 Member
    I plan to log on thanksgiving.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I like trying to log higher calorie days.
  • Wiggymommy
    Wiggymommy Posts: 106 Member
    Not tracking, mostly because I'm very precise with tracking and that will be too difficult with all the dishes family memebers make. It will honestly be best guess so what's the point. Just don't go crazy. Eat what you like in small portions and you should be fine. A higher calorie day every once in a while has been shown to be beneficial in weight loss anyway

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