Curious: do you track on Thanksgiving (or any holiday)?

pancakerunner

Personally I do. Obviously I'm less strict, not as exact (usually just general estimates), and I often eat over my goal, but I like tracking on holidays/keeping a record. Just wondering what you guys do?

nighthawk584

I'm most likely going to take photos of what I eat and estimate. I'm allowing myself a little over indulgence. I'm going to bank some calories this coming week and still work out. My Thanksgiving is the whole weekend at my sisters. Back to business as usual on Monday. This will be the 1st time I am not strict on my diet.

corinasue1143

Log breakfast as usual. Log dinner as usual. Lunch is quick add=probably 1000 calories(quick rough estimate).

LyndaBSS

I’ll make a note of what I’m eating and log it as best I can.

PrismaticPhoenix

I've only recently started tracking and I'm really curious about how people handle this (and eating over at other people's houses / eating out) where they don't cook the food. My sister's birthday is coming up in addition to the topical Thanksgiving and I admit to being somewhat concerned about how I'm going to log them both,

sugarcakes38

Will log breakfast and anything else before we leave our house (thanksgiving at my moms). I won’t be toting my food scale. Like Nighthawk, a picture and/or discreet list to refer to later should suffice.

FireyChimera

Nope! I actually quit tracking everything all together and haven't logged for 2 months I am doing intuitive eating. (I eat whole natural foods and avoid added sugar and processed foods.) I am loving the freedom from feeling worried, paranoid, and bad all the time I am finally free from the shackles or worrying about calories and weight¬

lemurcat2

When I was actively logging and keeping a deficit (I have been in maintenance for a while), I did not log on Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving, and usually took a few other days off too. I do a lot of the cooking on these holidays, but not all, and in that there's no way to be accurate with dishes others make it just seems kind of pointless. I also had no plan to keep a deficit on those days. Part of why I enjoyed using a food scale is that I don't really like estimating, so this worked better for me.

About halfway into my deficit/logging I also decided that it was a pain to try and log restaurant meals, so I would normally just eat lightly the rest of the day and log 1000 for the restaurant meal (or whatever seemed a reasonable estimate).

pancakerunner

cuteangelkitten wrote: »

Nope! I actually quit tracking everything all together and haven't logged for 2 months I am doing intuitive eating. (I eat whole natural foods and avoid added sugar and processed foods.) I am loving the freedom from feeling worried, paranoid, and bad all the time I am finally free from the shackles or worrying about calories and weight¬

good for you

Chef_Barbell

Nope... I actually haven't tracked all month... it's my birthday month and stuff.

DiscusTank5

I'll estimate what I eat at Thanksgiving dinner and carefully track the other meals while I'm at my parents'. I didn't log the entire week of T'giving last year, and it didn't go so well. I need that accountability.

Luke_rabbit

I started tracking this year in July. I did not track at all during a one week vacation. I do not plan to track on Thanksgiving, our birthdays and anniversary (which is actually all on the same day), and Christmas. I've considered just doing a day estimate of what feels reasonable (1800, 2000, etc).

healingnurtrer

I'm not going to, but I'll log in to keep my logging in streak going

apullum

I log, and bank calories ahead of a holiday to a reasonable extent.

Candyn617

I log every day the good and the bad because I need the accountability. On foods I'm not sure about I use one that has a higher calorie count just to give myself a cushion. I am planning on exercising somewhere during the day to give me a few extra calories. Most of all I am going to enjoy the day and start fresh the next day! I hope everyone has a great holiday!!

hesn92

Last year I did. 3191 calories lol. (Really not that impressive, could have been a lot more)

Shortgirlrunning

Nope. I don’t even try, too much work and it does not feel worth it at all. I try to make reasonable choices and not go overboard but generally I just don’t worry about calories on Thanksgiving.

beachwalker99

I don't plan to log over most of Thanksgiving weekend and will also take another break around Christmas. It just isn't practical for me to carry a food scale or measure out my food. That doesn't mean I won't be mindful of food choices and portion sizes or ignore my body's cues. I may see a bounce on the scale, but much of it will likely be gone within a week once I get back to my routine of daily weigh-ins and tracking my calories. I'm in this for the long haul, so taking a little longer to reach my goal is, for me, the less stressful route.

maureenkhilde

Yes, I will. It is at my house, I am making the food. The more challenging for me is the Christmas Eve/Christmas day.
But even for this Thursday I am saving about 100 calories each day for that pie!

Idontcareyoupick

I just guesstimate and call it good. Get in a walk also

mtaratoot

Every day, even if it's just a guess.

I don't have special plans for Thanksgiving, so it will be just another day, except I won't have to go to work. Yay!

When I go on river trips or dive trips, I have created a recipe I put in my diary that I expect comes ~close~ to what I eat, on average. It's just three ingredients -- carbs, fat, and protein. I enter them in the percentage that matches what I set in my goals. For rafting, I estimate 3500 calories (way more than my 1771 goal, but I'm working hard). For diving, it's almost 4500 calories. If I was going to have a feast on Thanksgiving, I would probably make some good guesses and I might even try to log all the delicious foods I ate, or I'd do the SCUBA rations at a minimum.

burp.

I even make estimates on a routine basis when I get food from the hot bar at our local coop. I don't trust that my guesses at similar items in the database would be more accurate.

Every day!

Log or not; enjoy the holiday if you can. I'll see you here after dessert