Your Christmas weight loss plans

MelanieAG05

I think the sensible thing to do is to eat as close to maintenance cals as possible. Mine is 1750. I have the entire 2 weeks off at Christmas so I'll be able to go to the gym most days so that will make up for it as well!

GingerRogered

I'm on a mission to loose weight! I'm going to eat healthly over christmas no matter what. I will indulgde in a few cheeky beverages but as far as food goes I'm going to try my very best to stick to my 1300 calorie limit for food. Lucky for my my family are quite healthy and christmas normally consists of fresh prawns, heaps of salad, roast lamb and a massive fruit salad. but i'll definately enjoy a few mango daquaries!

carrie1610

My plan is to lose at least one more lb before the holiday, then maintain my weight over Christmas and start again losing in the new year. I'll keep an eye on what I'm eating and drinking, enjoy myself but not go mad. Also, I'll be avoiding the boxes of chocolates as one chocolate is never enough!

Stacyanne324

I don't want to lose my accumulation of days logged in, so I will be logging in. I also want to track my calories, so that I get a sense of the amount of exercise needed to burn everything off. And then I will spend days doing winter sports to burn it all off!

I didn't consider the days logged in accumulation. I will definitely at least log in too. Thanks!

Tzippy7

ill maybe eat back all my exercise calories but other than that its a regular day for me

pandabear_

I'm going to celebrate Christmas and eat. But just on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. That's technically just two cheat days!

StevLL

I'm going to move more and eat less, thats the plan!

agthorn

the thundering herd of sheeple to work through their absurd new year resolutions which will end once they give up and quit after a few weeks.

LOL, this is SO true!

Well, I'm already at maintenance so my plan for the entire month of December is to accumulate a weekday deficit of about 200-300 calories each day, and then basically have a "cheat meal" each Saturday night when we have our holiday parties (company xmas party tonight, friends' xmas party next Saturday, celebrating xmas on xmas eve the following Saturday, and then new years eve). I don't plan to track this meal at all; I'll just put in a quick add of calories to zero out my accumulated deficit and call it good enough.

songbyrdsweet

My bf and I are doing a sort of Primal WOE lately and leaning out wonderfully. My parents eat this way so staying with them will be easy as they have very few sweets. Christmas Eve/Day I eat what I want! Then we are heading to his parents' place where we don't eat quite as healthfully, but eating Primal I crave very few sweets. We are going on a cruise Jan 7th and I plan on weighing 130lbs or less!

rlysrh

Mine is going to be horrible as my gym will be closed for a week or more!! SUCKS! But there is a 24 hour gym here but I cant get out of my current gym membership my brother has one though, thinking of using his just for that week... Maybe dodgy but hey who cares ahahaha! I need to pump my muscles!

But christmas day I am guaranteed to go over, but my metabolism is running pretty good at the moment and I live in Australia, so christmas day will be quite warm, which means a lot of out door activities such as: backyard cricket, Water balloon volleyball and all soughts of other activites, So I should be fine

I always find it weird thinking about how its summer in australia. I can't imagine christmas in hot weather. Its been about 10 degrees here (the UK) every day instead of the usual 1 or 2 and it feels too warm to be christmassy.
I bet it seems weird for you to think about it being cold at christmas though.

clairelane1982

I know its early but I felt like I had to work this out well ahead of time so that I wouldn't just completely stop logging around christmas and never get back on MFP.

Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year and all the drinking and eating is part of what I love and I just don't think I could enjoy christmas if I was trying to stick to my 1400 calorie limit.
So my christmas plan is to keep logging on MFP at 1400 until Christmas eve, then I'll take christmas eve, christmas day and boxing day as free days where I don't have to worry (although I'll definitely be trying not to eat TOO much still) and then I'll get back on track. Although I know since there will be a lot of food and drink floating around if I feel like it I'll give myself some days of eating my maintenance calories too so I don't feel like I'm missing out. I'm not really concerned with losing weight in the 2 weeks surrounding christmas, just as long as I don't gain any.


So what is everyone else's christmas plans? I know there's gotta be a lot of people planning to keep on track 100% over christmas and I wish you good luck. (:

My plan is to do exactly what you have just said... 3 days of not indulgance, just a relaxed eating program and then after boxing day back on track...

Ozzyzmommy

When I started my diet I made a choice to change my bad eating ways...
So Christmas is no different... I'm going to celebrate the day, do as much activity as I can to make sure it counts as exercise (somewhat) If I cant get my regular workout done...
And I'll make sure my food choices are within my calorie count for the day...
I wish everyone good luck on your choices, and Merry Christmas

banana1244

I will be traveling across the country, so I don't know how that will affect me. Years prior I always had a burger from McDonalds with a starbucks in the airport... not this year....!!!!
To answer your question, however, I'm only letting myself not log on MFP on Christmas eve and Christmas day. Also, I will be going on regular 5 mile ways -- in the SNOW!!

MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

mandycasey

Well i have decided to take the whole week off of logging and exercise ,Starting from christmas eve till new years day - i love christmas and have alot of parties and family get - togethers so would find it really hard to stick to 1200 calories and when eating at other peoples houses not easy to work out calories etc. I was never on a diet and if you can't eat and drink what u want at christmas when can you!! I will be straight back to logging on the 1st january.
Hope everyone has a fab christmas and new year xxxx

ninerbuff

I'm gonna trap and kill Donner for venison for the rest of winter...........................................


A.C.E. Certified Personal Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

clarkeje1

I'm planning to stay on track throughout the holidays. Even if I go over my calorie limit on Christmas I'm still going to log it so that I can see how far I went over but I'm going to try and stay under. I might skip one day of working out though...

weightofyourskin

I am currently doing New Rules of Lifting but I will have to take a break because I'll be at my parents' place from the 17th to the 27th. (I've checked out gyms in the area and their day passes are way too expensive! So my plan is to bring some small hand weights and my copy of 30DS and just do that while I'm there.

MissMisery1313

I plan to keep up with my exercise and calorie counting. BUT, the office holiday party is on Friday and there's always a big spread of yummy desserts (pumpkin cheesecake!) and everyone bringing in extra homemade goodies to share. I may have to add on an extra workout here and there.

reaolliemama

I plan to do the same as I've been doing. I know I may go over on calories, but if I don't track it I'm sure I'll do worse than I would if I do. I won't beat myself up when I go over my calories. I also plan to continue with my exercise as usual.

zoe4friends

Oh This is going to be hard. I have 1 month long winter break and I will be traveling to Missouri, Wisconsin, NY and Connecticut, and the weather is cold in those places. SInce my workouts mainly consist of walking/ and jogging outside, I doubt I will be able to get that done there. So I really have to be good about my food and watch what I eat. I am so worried :-(

gp79

I will track everything in MFP, simply because I'm a numbers / data geek and MFP has been a habit for me for over a year now. I plan to enjoy Christmas with my family and avoid my rather unpopular eating habits. As you've probably heard someone say before, it's likely more important to watch what you eat between new years and Christmas than between Christmas and new years.

dalgirly

My plan is to have a good week of exercising the week before Christmas --- and then enjoy all my treats and drinks and all that jazz!!!

I'm not really going to worry if I gain a pound or two over Christmas or whatever. It comes once a year, and its my favourite time of the year, so I'm going to enjoy it --- worry free!!

hosnowjo

I am taking Christmas Even, Christmas Day and Boxing Day off from my 1200 calorie target. I will log all my intake as usual, but I am going to enjoy whatever I want to eat for those 3 days. It is my treat to myself for all the hard work over the past few months.

It is my favouriste time of year and I WILL enjoy every moment of those three days and will not feel guilty at all.

MissMisery1313

Oh This is going to be hard. I have 1 month long winter break and I will be traveling to Missouri, Wisconsin, NY and Connecticut, and the weather is cold in those places. SInce my workouts mainly consist of walking/ and jogging outside, I doubt I will be able to get that done there. So I really have to be good about my food and watch what I eat. I am so worried :-(

Is it possible to take an aerobics or walking fitness DVD with you and sneak in a workout?

fionarama

I think its really important to keep logging, even if you are eating over at least you are staying in the habit of managing what you eat a bit. I had my office party on Friday and am already finding it hard to keep back to normal. If I stopped logging even for a couple of days and gave into it entirely I think it could well end up being a permanent or semi pernanent fall off the wagon.
I am really realising what a delicate balance it is and how easy it is to regain what you've lost.

zendarah

I am planning to watch my portion sizes and not log a damn thing Boxing day, I'm right back on it.

fionarama

will be interesting to see how everyone has done and which strategy worked the best after xmas!!!

onefourone

I have already lost 10 lbs and at this pace by christmas it should be 20lbs however it all seems to be coming out of my wallet lol

HonkyTonks

will be relaxing over christmas eve/christmas day period but still logging, just won't stress overly about going into negative

Thena81

i joined a group of girls to lose ten lbs by Christmas a lil while ago and i have four lbs to go! very happy and looking to lose more! 22 lbs til my goal is reached

i track everything, including Thanksgiving. Sure, it was UGLYY lol but i wanted to know what i was doing!