How many calories in your Christmas dinner?

AMC110
AMC110 Posts: 188 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I had to use estimations for my main meal yesterday. For those of you who were able to log accurately, how many calories did your Christmas dinner rack up?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    578 - roasted brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce, and some red wine.

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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    978 kcals -- an "untraditional" Christmas dinner of grilled cheese and minestrone, plus a high-ish ABV beer.
  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
    I only sort of logged. About 700 for desserts, another 500 for dinner, but I didn’t log hors d’oeuvres. Probably another 500.

    It’s a few days out of the year. Soon enough, I’ll be craving vegetables and chicken breast. This week, I’m enjoying the once a year foods.
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    Dinner + desserts. Around 2k easy. Omnomnomnom
  • Forever_Primed
    Forever_Primed Posts: 8 Member
    I probably put down ~4k cals in total yesterday. I chose to fully induldge in my desires. No regrets at all. The way I see things is that eating such an extreme amount of food on one day is an anomaly in my everyday life. It's not something I do habitually so it pretty much means nothing. It was back to normal today.
  • RCW_III
    RCW_III Posts: 10 Member
    Just over 400 calories for dinner of turkey, gravy and green beans. Nearly 3,000 with snacking on nuts most of the day to not start on cookies, etc. :)
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,464 Member
    1000 calories at McDonald's . What a waste! Our Christmas was a few days earlier. I didn't log, but a small pork chop, 1 roll with butter, small roasted potato and lots of roasted zucchini. Not bad.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    894 including coffee and dessert. Finished the day with 208 calories to spare, since I worked out and we didn't eat lunch. Dinner was lamb with mint sauce, roasted root vegetables with tzatziki sauce, salad with ginger dressing, and dessert was cheese, fruit, and chocolate.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Too *kitten* many, lol.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    IDK...I had 2 pork tamales, avocado, homemade pico, avo-verde sauce, about a half bag of tortilla chips, and 3 chicken taquitos
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    seriously it was 3 days of pigging out until i felt like i wanted to die and then just continuing to shove in cookies as i made room. I want to die right this moment- My body doesnt appear to digest this kind of food (seriously) but i achieved my goal, Got it out of my system and cant *kitten* wait to get back to clean healthy eating. Put on 15 pounds id say maybe 4 will hang around. Not the end of the world ill begin to feel beter when my bloating goes down and i plan to use the feeling of health and weight loss to catapult me into a good 2018, So really no harm done if anything slight benefit to being a gross piggy xD Gonna hold on to this gross feeling for a while keep it in my mind and nurture the desire to eat well
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    LOT
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    edited December 2017
    Skipped dinner. I had the 1600 calorie breakfast and the 1600 calorie lunch. Then I exercised enough to log a green day.
  • Mslmesq
    Mslmesq Posts: 1,000 Member
    edited December 2017
    990 not including wine.

    French onion soup, butter and horseradish crusted prime rib and creamed horseradish sauce, and bacon fried brussel sprouts. Plus dinner rolls and lots of wine.

    No guilt. I don’t care.
  • Iwantahealthierme30
    Iwantahealthierme30 Posts: 293 Member
    I have Christmas Lunch
    Lunch and Dessert/Hors Oeuvres - 2500 easily

    Went overboard on the cookies, had 7 of them. :open_mouth:
  • RachellaJ
    RachellaJ Posts: 58 Member
    1,430 for dinner, dessert and drinks. That’s more than I usually eat in a whole day. It was well worth it! I set my calories to maintenance for the day, and enjoyed every bite!
  • PowerliftingMom
    PowerliftingMom Posts: 430 Member
    edited December 2017
    507 - ham, small serving of stuffing, 1/2 small sweet potato, green beans and some broccoli. I was full after eating that meal, had 2 tiny healthy snacks and only ate 1400 calories yesterday. No desserts, etc.
  • MichelleWithMoxie
    MichelleWithMoxie Posts: 1,817 Member
    690 on dinner + another 300 ish on drinks. I ended up about 200 over for the day - a win in my book!
  • anewell28
    anewell28 Posts: 79 Member
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    seriously it was 3 days of pigging out until i felt like i wanted to die and then just continuing to shove in cookies as i made room. I want to die right this moment- My body doesnt appear to digest this kind of food (seriously) but i achieved my goal, Got it out of my system and cant *kitten* wait to get back to clean healthy eating. Put on 15 pounds id say maybe 4 will hang around. Not the end of the world ill begin to feel beter when my bloating goes down and i plan to use the feeling of health and weight loss to catapult me into a good 2018, So really no harm done if anything slight benefit to being a gross piggy xD Gonna hold on to this gross feeling for a while keep it in my mind and nurture the desire to eat well

    I am in the same boat with you, ate like crazy for five days straight. so many cookies. so many. I'm still bloated and swollen, the scale went up 15 pounds and now I'm gonna wait to see what the real damage is after my body adjusts. oh well! it'll be my motivation too once the new year hits to get back on the bandwagon!
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Did not log. Did not care. I estimate a bajillionty. There were chocolates and bucks fizz for breakfast, Pringles for snacks, dinner of steamed sprouts, roast lamb shoulder, duck fat roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and yorkshires. Cheesecake for pudding. 1 glass of red wine. I was so full I had to nap off the sore tummy!

    But as someone else said, 3 days of indulgence, only one of which was all out as above, I have it out of my system and enjoyed every second.

    And now I work on not feeling so bloated and stuffed, actually logging today and it feels nice to be hold of the reins again.
  • PWRLFTR1
    PWRLFTR1 Posts: 324 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Around one million :D

    This, give or take
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I didn't log, but off the top of my head I would estimate it at around 2500-3000 calories. That yule log had a lot of dark chocolate (more calorific that most types of chocolate), plus lots of mayo salads. I didn't even need to stuff myself into a food coma, the food itself was very fatty and even reasonable amounts had a lot of calories.
  • LEdmonds2016
    LEdmonds2016 Posts: 139 Member
    I ate ham, steamed veggies and pasta made from lentils and spinach. I did not go over for my day, but as usual I was hungry and THOUGHT about food all day! NYE is a different story though. We are having a party and I plan to partake in all!
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
    Too many. Did a 5.5 mile swim yesterday. Part penance. :D
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Didn't log. Dinner itself was maybe 600 (ham, broccoli, and potatoes). I probably doubled that in desserts.
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    I think I had around 600 in my dinner, although it's hard to tell with some of the ingredients.

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