Zero Thanksgiving worry.

M3CH4N1C

I agree Bekah. But I'm going to count them anyways, as best I can, just to see the damage I do.

page68

FOR ME, getting back on the horse, even if it's the next day, is TOUGH!! So tough I'd rather keep riding and counting the cals. I know myself so well that the extra indulgence is an invitation to a very slippery slope.

I'm envious of those who are in more control. It's like cigarettes for me. If I smoked one again, just one, I'd be up to a pack in a week. I'm glad there are those who can do the "no worry thing." Dare I say it? Yep, I'm jealous

cmeade20

Agreed. Im enjoying myself tomorrow. And I figure my stomach has shrunk from me cutting calorie so it will take less Thanksgiving dinner to fill me up :-)

Yakisoba

redheadmommy

I am with you 100%. In Canada we celebrated thanksgiving a month ago and I never even had a second thought about it. Come on it is Turkey not bacon grease by the cupful anyway.
Roasted turkey is a great lean meat, enjoy it. After thanksgiving take turkey sandwich to work, it is good for you!
Eat tons of turkey with veggies, and bit of stuffing won't hurt you. Have bite size brownie or pie once and a glass of wine. Make it a cheat meal, it is not at the end of the world to have one every once a while.

michelec64

Great post, agree 100%. On the other hand, I realize that some aren't to the point that they can trust themselves to take the day in moderation so I'm cutting them a bit of slack.

There's always going to be celebrations (in the past few weeks I've also been to a Halloween party and a wedding) but when you look at the big picture all those celebrations are maybe a dozen or so days out of 365. If you eat healthy and watch the calories those other 350 days then your body can handle the occasional feast or night out.

Tomorrow I'll go to the gym for their annual "Turkey Burner" workout and then I fully intend to enjoy dinner with ALL the trimmings. I'll leave the leftovers to the other guests to take home and Friday it's back to the regular routine.

Happy Thanksgiving all.

Umeboshi

YES

rockstarginaa

Agreed!

gdortiz

I dont' know... I totally see your sentiment and to some degree you have to be able to be flexible so you can cope with the up's and downs. However, like a few people said ...

Thanksgiving only comes once a year, but so does Halloween, so does your nephew's graduation party, so does XMAS, so does a co-workers retirement party, so does burgers and dogs for the fourth, so does that extra special birthday dinner, for you, yoru mom, your boyfirend/husband, your dad,etc.

I think if you got a long way to go in terms of weight loss it probably a bad ideal to just totally let go, on any occaision, until you reach a huge milestone or until you reach your ideal weight.

I think this notion of, "I'll get back on track" is self defeating.

I lost a big chunk of weight my first 3 months, and totally hit a wall, then lost some more, and now I'm back to stalling.

The reason I lost my weight the first three months? I was almost fanatical about my weight loss, the reason why I hit the wall? I kept sabotaging myself and saying, "I'll just get back on track next week."

Plus, I don't know about you all, but I can gain 4lbs easy over hte course of a couple day sof bad eating ... that same weight takes me over a week to take off.

I'll tell you this, your post has really motivated and will be in the back of my head as I got to my in-laws hosue!

rlysrh

I completely agree. I'm in the UK so we don't celebrate thanksgiving, but when it comes to christmas I'd just feel so crappy if I stopped myself eating all the amazing food because it only comes once a year. So I'll give myself christmas eve, christmas day and boxing day to eat whatever I want and then (hopefully) its straight back on track with the diet. There's no way in hell I could resist all the christmas food anyway.

gdortiz

Holidays like Thanksgiving are a huge test to our lifestyle changes and not everyone has the same degree of control. Eating a whole lot in one day could act as a trigger for future binges. Also, your worst case scenario is also relative. Personally, if I gain a couple of pounds, it will take me well over a MONTH to take them off so I'm not willing to throw that away when I'm SO close to my goal. My thanksgiving would be actually be ruined if I spent the whole next day feeling crappy about what I ate, so I will do my best and stick to green stuff and avoid the bread and crackers.

Happy Thanksgiving!

right on ... this is good insight. it is all relative.

jennor8or

Note that I agree with you 100000000 % but I think for a lot of people "the holidays" aren't just 1 day... its potlucks at work, people bringing in baked goods constantly, christmas parties for work, dinner with friends, baked goods being brought in, etc... it seems like the holidays are more than just 1day for most ppl... though they shouldn't be

Maggie_Pie1

I guess I'm weird - I have zero thanksgiving worry too, but for different reasons. The only thanksgiving food I like is turkey. I'm more apt to destroying my diet around a pizza than I am pies/thanksgiving food.

Zero stress for me too. Unless someone in the family brings a pizza to dinner. Or bacon... mmmmm.... bacon.

momof3and3

Warning: This is a bit of a rant. I don't mean any offense- just want to share some feelings/thoughts.

Thanksgiving comes ONCE a year. Just once. One time. I keep seeing all these posts about how to 'survive' thanksgiving and I can't help but ask myself, why? Why the worry? Why the stress? What is wrong with enjoying family and friends? What is wrong with expressing gratitude for the good things you have in this life? What is wrong with eating delicious food?

One day is not going to make or break anyone's diet (or life style change or whatever). Worst case scenario: You gain a few pounds, which you can lose in a couple of weeks. More likely scenario: you have a good time and your weight loss slows down a tiny bit.

Diet's are about the big picture. They are about maintaining a chronic, long-term, calorie deficit. An occasional calorie surplus is not going to hurt as long as the rest of the week, month, year evens out to a negative calorie balance.

So I intend to enjoy my thanksgiving. I'm not even going to bother counting calories. And I'm going to have that second piece of pie if I want it.

On Friday, I'll get back on track.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Amen!
to add to it...one day of over-indulgance will NOT make you gain weight...it's just some water weight wich will come back off after a few days of regular eating...
I am going to enjoy that pecan pie tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

manvsfood

I plan on enjoying myself... I've worked too hard to let one day defeat me. I'll eat what I want with my new mindset I have now, and get back on routine the next day. Family is going to be over... we'll play some Kinect, watch the game, laugh... and eat. That's tradition.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

MaraDiaz

I'm a perfectionist and a lifelong video game player. I like to see green numbers and I like to do everything perfectly. I'm not really worried about Thanksgiving itself as about letting it (or something else) derail me and cause me to say, "Okay, I didn't do it perfectly, so I give up now."

It's a personality thing.

caitylynn62

I have seen threads like this, and people say like you need to have eaten 3500 calories to gain a pound, but that would have to be 3500 calories over your bmr and exercise calories right? because your body does burn calories even when your not exercising and that combined with exercise calories would produce a deficit.. am I wrong? So say my BMR is 1500 and I burn 200 calories exercising, then I would have to eat 1700+ 3500 calories to gain a pound? Sorry if this is confusing, I hope I explained it right.

Rae6503

I have seen threads like this, and people say like you need to have eaten 3500 calories to gain a pound, but that would have to be 3500 calories over your bmr and exercise calories right? because your body does burn calories even when your not exercising and that combined with exercise calories would produce a deficit.. am I wrong? So say my BMR is 1500 and I burn 200 calories exercising, then I would have to eat 1700+ 3500 calories to gain a pound? Sorry if this is confusing, I hope I explained it right.

It would be even more than that. It would be 3500 over your maintenance. My maintenance is around 2200. So yeah, to gain ONE pound on T-day I'd have to eat 5700 calories in one day. Now I put down 4000 the other day but 5700 might be a challenge even for me....