How to deal with post Thanksgiving feast guilt?

christinefrano
christinefrano Posts: 44 Member
edited November 2022 in Food and Nutrition
I had 2 family dinners (Thanksgiving and Friday) and went overboard on food. To make things worse, my stomach is a wreck (IBD) today so I'm missing two workouts this week now. :(

I know it's not a huge deal, but I feel guilty about it all. How do you guys deal with post Thanksgiving? Forget it and move on? A good sweat/workout session? Eat less?
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  • JaysFan82
    JaysFan82 Posts: 853 Member
    One day isn't going to kill you. Two days won't either. Just got back to your routine and move on

    I went with some buddies in June for 4 days to see the Jays play. I had Popeyes Chicken at 2am back to back nights lol. I'm also down 129 pounds this year. Enjoy yourself and get back at it.
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,826 Member
    Being European, I don't do Thanksgiving, but similar for Christmas period: I eat lighter foods - not because I forbid myself more indulgent foods, but I just crave more veggies for example. I don't 'starve' myself to compensate, i just get back on plan.

    I don't do guilt. I enjoy what I eat. And if I ate too much to the point of feeling sick, I think of what I could do to avoid it next time. I love food and enjoying my meals is important, but I also know my limits quite well by now, to avoid getting sick.

    It's only a few dinners. Our progress is determined by what we do most of the time, not the occasional splurge.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,203 Member
    Guilt is optional, feels icky, burns no extra calories. I don't indulge in it. Even if I eat over goal, even if I decide it wasn't worth it . . . it's in the past, and fussing over it changes nothing. It's just food, not a sin we need to expiate by suffering afterward.

    The one thing I strive to do (and suggest to others to do): When I eat over goal, decide it wasn't worth it to me, I think about what triggered it; make a new, better plan for how to deal with a similar situation in future; rehearse that plan vividly in my head a few times like a mini-movie to make it real; . . . then forget about it, and get back on my regular healthy routine. If/when the triggers recur, I can pull out the new plan, give it a test drive. If it works, great. If it doesn't, make a different plan. Weight management is a sequence of problem-solving opportunities. Emotion about it doesn't help me - YMMV.

    Sometimes it's completely worth it to me to eat over goal, such as birthday, holidays, really special restaurant meal. Those things are not frequent. One meal, a day or two, even vacation week: A drop in the ocean. Like Lietchi said, the majority of our days determine the majority of our outcomes.

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