Woe is Me! Thanksgiving Ruined Everything!

DancingMoosie

I weighed exactly the same today as yesterday, which is up from last week, but only 1.5lb. I also got in a good workout this morning and more steps overall today. Maybe the scale will be down tomorrow 🤷‍♀️

LiftandSkate

That is an impressive 1 day gain! I was up 3#. In years past, this would have kicked off a vicious cycle of over restricting, bingeing, and over exercising. I am so grateful to be in a much healthier place now, and am not even worried about it. One day does not make or break anything.

LiftandSkate

patrickaa5 wrote: »

1,974 calories over? That's terrible! You must not have tried hard enough. I didn't weigh this morning, but I was a good 2,500 calories over goal. It had something to do with having firsts (and seconds) of all three pies.

Lol..I was telling my husband this morning that perhaps the 3rd piece of pie yesterday was excessive.

tuckerrj

Yup, I'm up 5+lbs. also. But I won't take the scale seriously until Monday morning. That way, it won't be intestinal bloat.

springlering62

As an aside, I guess that 1,974 extra calories did some good. I blew my squat PR out of the water by 25 lbs today, and it felt great.

I call that a Thanksgiving Win Win. :-)

psychod787

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I was stunned that I was only up 1.8 pounds this morning. I don't even think about calorie goal on Thanksgiving. This year was my first-ever solo holiday (usually go the SIL/BIL's house on the other side of the state), so I decided I was going to eat whatever foods I like, traditional or no, and whatever quantity I wanted. Certainly, this was more carbs and sodium than usual, so I was expecting more like up to 3-4 pounds just from water weight plus the transitory digestive contents.

I haven't logged it yet (may not - soooo many recipes!) though I have the notes so I can if I decide to. Having logged "all I can/want to eat" days in the past, they usually top out at around 2-2.5 times my TDEE, so perhaps enough calories to gain a pound of fat. I don't really expect quite that big a result, based on past experience.

I'm going to have to log some of the recipes, though: A side effect of solo Thanksgiving dinner, eating all I care to eat of whatever I care to cook, is So. Many. Leftovers. (I made a whole batch of buttermilk biscuits from scratch, half a dozen individual pumpkin custards, and more . . . didn't eat them all. 😆) Some are already portioned out in the freezer, others will be. I need the calorie numbers for those for routine calorie logging.

On the other side of the balance sheet, Thanksgiving day starts the annual Concept 2 Holiday Challenge (200k rowing machine meters between that day and Christmas Eve). Going to try it again this year, see how the aging (now 65 y/o) body holds up to that volume of the same exercise. Even funnier: We're still on-water rowing. I rowed 7k this morning on water, plan 8k machine later in the day. That'll wipe out a few hundred Thanksgiving calories . . . or allow more munching on leftovers. 😉

Same weight today vs last week. Aunt granny, I've been doing some rowing. You ma'am are tough. My lats were sore for.. well still are!

LoveyChar

I have a couple more days of Thanksgiving eats ahead of me. Maybe if I keep at it eating this way, I'll get big enough to donate blood some time next week. 110 pounds almost makes me cringe, though, but it'll come back off pretty easy.

lgfrie

I was +12 pounds on Friday morning, down to +3 today LOL Really enjoyed that 9 pound loss overnight. Hoping to get back to even around Monday-Tuesday. Takes a while to drain off that water ...

Beautyofdreams

Walked twice on Thanksgiving and only up 0.5 lbs Friday. Had a leftovers and people over Friday night and was up a pound on Saturday. Walked four miles Saturday then had people over for more Thanksgiving leftovers and overate. Am concerned this might be a trend. Definitely need to work on social skills to avoid overeating(mouth full/can't talk). Looking forward to getting back to gym tomorrow. Now, need to wear masks and only limited amount of people allowed inside at a time, so hope I can get in.

corinasue1143

Overate a little Thursday, so wasn’t as hungry Friday. I didn’t eat enough protein Friday, so I was hungry all day today. Hope I won’t be up too much tomorrow!

springlering62

So the purpose of this post was to encourage people. Just because you have a binge, social event, or Thanksgiving to creep up on you, all is not lost.

135.8 day after Thanksgiving. 131.8 today, less three days from the Great Meal.

I didn’t go to pieces, I didn’t whine a bunch and give up, I just went right back to my well practiced habits, logged carefully, continued my usual exercise program and in 72 hours am right back to my sweet spot.

CICO works, y’all, even with the occasional bumps in the road. Stick with it!

AnnPT77

OP asked us to check back when the scale is back down, so here it is. Apologies in advance for the essay.

In the interests of science (😉), I went back and logged Thanksgiving day, from my notes. I ate surprisingly fewer calories than I thought I might have done based on past experience, estimated 3349 calories (as against a TDEE that day - including the actual 300-ish calorie machine rowing - of probably around 2300-2500). So, that should be good for just under a quarter to a third of a pound fat gain, more or less, in theory.

As a recap from my post above, I was up 1.8 pounds the next day. (For reference, it was 389g carbs and 3999mg salt, and I definitely salted some things at the table but didn't record that.)

This morning, I was down 2 pounds from that day after Thanksgiving peak, and down 0.2 pounds from the day before Thanksgiving. (I admit, that's a bit of a cheat, because I was a slugabed this morning (so likely relatively dehydrated), and ate most of yesterday's food mid-day rather than late. Still, OP asked about the scale, not about reality. 😆)

I my mind, there are a few subtle NSVs in there:

* I ate every single thing I wanted, no mature adult self limitation whatsoever, and still didn't hit the 5000-6000 calorie peaks I've logged on big days in the past.

* The dishes I made (mostly made up, vs. following others' recipes) were surprising lower in calories than I expected, despite including plenty of oils/butter and full fat cheeses and other richness. I expected the buttermilk biscuits (Shirley Corriher's wonderful recipe) to be 300-400 calories each, and they were more like 150 (I ate four!); I expected the rich vegetarian cauliflower mac'n'3-cheese main to come in at much higher than the 150 calories per smallish serving (I ate 4 of those, too); and the individual pumpkin custards with whipped cream were only about 150 for the custard, 50 more for whipped heavy cream topping, when I was thinking 300-400 for those, too (I ate two). The implication that my intuitively-derived indulgent cooking/recipes are *relatively* calorie efficient, compared to my expectations and history.

* Bonus: Exceeded my daily protein goal (though only by 18g), and blew my stretch veggies/fruit goal (10+ servings) out of the water, with about 21 servings. 🤣

This is what the vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner looked like, for reference (first helpings 😉, and most of the biscuits were breakfast 😉).

__TMac__

__TMac__ wrote: »

LOL! Thanks for the preemptive post.

I predicted 3 lbs up. I was 2 lbs up this AM.

Quoting myself to finally update. I rode that 2 lbs (give or take a half-pound) until today. Then a sudden 2.5 lb drop to a new low.