Recovering from Thanksgiving

AlyssaP1987
AlyssaP1987 Posts: 268 Member
in Food and Nutrition
What are you doing to recover from the carb fest this week? I was thinking fasting or detox Friday. Ideas?
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  • annlyric
    annlyric Posts: 53 Member
    I don’t think he was trying to instigate anything. We’re all good here.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Our Thanksgiving was last month. But I just went back to normal after, which is what I do after every weekend. If anything my regular weekends are more a carb fest than Thanksgiving was.
  • AlyssaP1987
    AlyssaP1987 Posts: 268 Member
    annlyric wrote: »
    I don’t think he was trying to instigate anything. We’re all good here.

    Guess I am used to my keto groups on facebook. Judgemental crazies. LOL
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    pinggolfer96 wrote: »
    I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo

    Totally agree!
  • AlyssaP1987
    AlyssaP1987 Posts: 268 Member

    You must not be from the south 😂. My mother in laws house is a carb fest of the best mac n cheese, stuffing and rolls a girl could imagine. Haha

    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Cbean08 wrote: »
    I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.

    Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.

    This.

    It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.

    Turkey -- mostly protein.

    Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.

    My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat

    My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat

    Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat

    Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)

    Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).

    I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.

    Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.

    Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.

  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Cbean08 wrote: »
    I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.

    Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.

    This.

    It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.

    Turkey -- mostly protein.

    Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.

    My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat

    My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat

    Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat

    Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)

    Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).

    I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.

    Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.

    Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.

    Can I eat at your house? Cause I'm a diabetic and my family is all about the carbs. We have rolls, cornbread, actual corn, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce, and about four kinds of pie: pumpkin, pecan, chess, and chocolate silk. Apart from the turkey itself, the green beans, and a salad I usually bring but can't this year unless I can find lettuce which isn't romaine, everything is too carby for me to eat safely.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    AlyssaP1987 wrote: »
    What are you doing to recover from the carb fest this week? I was thinking fasting or detox Friday. Ideas?

    I don't detox after, I run and lift weights before, which improves my glucose tolerance. I estimate it would take about a marathon to run off my family's food so I also carefully moderate my carbs even at Thanksgiving.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    I expect a couple pounds of water weight mostly from higher sodium. I eat 50% carbs anyway.

    Either way, it'll go away when it's supposed to so just normal sailing for me.
  • Running2Fit
    Running2Fit Posts: 702 Member
    Nope, no special recovery. I’m just going to go back to my logging and exercising. I will do a run that morning but every Thursday is a run day for me so that’s not really anything special.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    See-sawing is all that happens when I restrict in answer to eating over calories. My weight stabilizes in the same 2-4 days if I just eat at maintenance.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    edited November 2018
    AlyssaP1987 wrote: »
    pinggolfer96 wrote: »
    I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo

    I have been on keto for 6 months. Don't necessarily consider it a bad mindset. Just asking questions. Relax ♡

    So don't eat the carbs. Isn't there turkey and gravy on the table?

    ETA:
    There's nothing you can do after you eat the carbs to make it magically be as though you didn't eat the carbs. If being in ketosis is more important to you than eating the foods everyone else is eating (the mac-n-cheese, stuffing, and rolls), stick to the turkey, gravy, and any non-starchy vegetables, if there are any on the table. Or bring a non-starchy side yourself.

    If eating the foods everybody else is eating is more important to you than staying in ketosis, eat them, and accept the fact that you'll just have to wait for sufficient time to pass to get back to ketosis after you return to your low carb way of eating. There's no fast or detox that will speed up the process in any meaningful way (OK, if you go to zero carbs on a fast, it might knock a little time off compared to having 20 g of carbs or whatever you normally do, but that's pointless -- you could go to zero carbs and still eat protein and fat with the same result).
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    edited November 2018
    AlyssaP1987 wrote: »
    You must not be from the south 😂. My mother in laws house is a carb fest of the best mac n cheese, stuffing and rolls a girl could imagine. Haha

    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Cbean08 wrote: »
    I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.

    Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.

    This.

    It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.

    Turkey -- mostly protein.

    Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.

    My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat

    My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat

    Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat

    Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)

    Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).

    I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.

    Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.

    Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.

    Heh, true, definitely not the south, I'm a midwesterner. Mac and cheese is as much fat as carbs (no, we don't normally have that, although at one time my sister's SO-in-law ran a soul restaurant and so we did, it was excellent and I miss it, love homemade mac & cheese). Rolls, like I said, I don't eat, not worth the calories to me, and I've always been a potatoes, not stuffing girl, but the stuffings I've made had sausage and again were as high in fat as carbs.

    Bread bores me, which is probably why I don't fill up on anything bread-like. The exceptions are higher fat -- cornbread, naan -- but we don't have those on Thanksgiving. I do like rolls with butter but I decided to choose between those and potatoes when I started watching what I ate and potatoes (easily) won.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Cbean08 wrote: »
    I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.

    Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.

    This.

    It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.

    Turkey -- mostly protein.

    Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.

    My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat

    My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat

    Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat

    Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)

    Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).

    I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.

    Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.

    Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.

    Can I eat at your house? Cause I'm a diabetic and my family is all about the carbs. We have rolls, cornbread, actual corn, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce, and about four kinds of pie: pumpkin, pecan, chess, and chocolate silk. Apart from the turkey itself, the green beans, and a salad I usually bring but can't this year unless I can find lettuce which isn't romaine, everything is too carby for me to eat safely.

    Sure, c'mon over!
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    Re salad, see if you can find butter lettuce. For some reason it's all over here right now, and a great romaine replacement (I prefer it).
  • saralee555
    saralee555 Posts: 31 Member
    I find it really entertaining to hear from others about what their family makes for Thanksgiving meals. I will include a pic of our carbfest....minus a pie pic0jfyty42cnu0.jpg
  • Keto_Vampire
    Keto_Vampire Posts: 1,670 Member
    I'm just wondering if anyone got a concussion/KO'd/slammed by Thanksgiving carbohydrates (lol, re: thread title)...heavy weight world champ
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    What toxins do you think you took in that you need to “detox” from?

    Detoxes are bunk and don’t accomplish anything except make your wallet lighter. They’re a diet industry scam.

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