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katiehepp1
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What's everyone's plans for Christmas? Sticking to it, maintaining? Not caring and looking back in the new year? It's a big thing in my family I already know my Christmas day dessert is 600 calories so might try to excersize a lot this week and eat fewer calories!
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I'm going to try stay in a deficit for a few days and then just eat what I want...I have no self control. I'm already on the fat side right now. I'll just ride it out until February. It's getting cold anyway and I want pie.3
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I will probably not log Christmas day, boxing day or NYE, the rest of the time is business as usual with my deficit.2
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My original plan was to eat what I wanted for the 3 days that I'm away over Christmas. However, I've been to four Christmas dinners already this month with another one tomorrow, so the new plan is to just forget December happened ;-)5
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I'm visiting my family for Christmas. I've decided not to track for those four days. I've already logged those days with my maintenance calories. I will relax, eat a reasonable amount of what looks good, and keep my phone put away. I will miss my lifting those days too, since hotel gyms are lousy for doing stronglifts. I will do my C25K though. It may be my only peace away from family time.2
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I started a diet break today and I won't worry about calories as much until next week1
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I will enjoy the day. No worries about exercise or food choices. It is one day.3
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I'm going to go low carb for the weekend. I have BED and while I've learned how to keep it under control 90% of the time, whenever I go to my parents it comes back full force and I consume 3k+ calories a day there.
I find if I don't eat carbs there, im less likely to go into a surplus.0 -
We don't make a big production of Christmas, except I buy some desserts from Collin Street Bakery and get a big old ham for dinner. I'm probably going to go over my calorie budget for Christmas day. I'll be off work for the week from Friday before Christmas through Monday after New Years, so either I succeed or fail, but I don't quit trying.0
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I'll probably eat whatever I want on Christmas Day (but somewhat within reason...1 slice of pie instead of 2...5 cookies instead of 10! haha) and the rest will be my usual.2
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Christmas eve, day and boxing day are all out carnage.
All other days will be normal days for current goals.0 -
We aren't doing a huge feast or anything so it shouldn't be hard to stick close to my normal goal.0
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I'm going to be realistic--this will not be a great time for dieting. I will do my best to not be completely stupid about what I put in my mouth. If it's really awesome I will eat it, if it is not I'll pass. I will try to get some exercise. But I refuse to get obsessed about sticking to a diet or not.1
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I think I agree with you all there, I don't want to eat so much that I feel sick and bloated like I use to so I think ikl be okay with a few treats as people say Christmas is once a year!0
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Idk. I guess my family's weird. Christmas isn't a big production.
There will be ham, roast, and an array of veggies. I'll probably have a serving of either roast or ham and a few servings of vegetables and call it a day.
If anything, I'll probably be under calories because I find usually on Christmas I'm so busy I only eat dinner.
We aren't big dessert people. There probably won't be any dessert and if there is it'll probably be a pie or something I can easily pass on. (Not much on dessert myself)
My office Christmas party is Friday, but it's a pot luck and I know from experience not a person in my office can cook so I probably won't even eat there.1 -
hey there! i am just going to enjoy my Christmas and New Years as normal. In the New Year I will go for quality and learn to cook for myself instead of take out and choose quality over quantity0
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Maintenance break until January 3rd. There's just no way I'll survive baking Christmas cookies otherwise (my mom and I make about 10 different kinds... and they each need to be tested before they can be served to anyone )0
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I'm taking a visit to the heart attack capital of the UK for Christmas. Hopefully I'll get out alive.
More realistically, I'm away for a week, and then New Year festivities when I return. I'll be taking it relatively easy, and regarding it as a diet break before my final push in the New Year.
I'm staying with tiny people, so that helps.0 -
This week I'm gong to sustain a good solid deficit. Christmas Eve morning I'm going on either a long run or hard spin session. Protein shakes from for the day until dinner where it's gonna be ON! Then Christmas Day all day it's gonna be ON, but I'm going to pace myself and not overstuff myself. Then Monday it's deficit as usual where I'm going to enjoy workouts where I actually feel fed for once! Then deficit again until New Years Eve.0
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I'm on maintenance already, started a week early as it was just getting too difficult and I was hassling myself about Christmas treats and feeling hungry due to switching calories up and down too much.
I'll quick add 4000 calories for the big day and try to average out at maintenance over the holidays. I'll start lowering calories again in January, probably take 2-3 weeks to get back into a full deficit, going by previous experience.0
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