Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years
dodgersprincess
Posts: 77
Since I been on this diet since 2006 I noticed tha the holidays is a lot of people's weak time. What tempts you the most at the Holiday Time? For Halloween it is The Candy Pumkins and Candy Corn. For Thanksgiving it is everything. For Christmas it is Choclate Covered Cherries and Egg Nogg. For New Years (my Birthday to me) it is Sparkling Juices, Birthday Cake, and Ice Cream and not to meantion going out to eat.
My for the Holiday season is dark Choclate, candy in moderation, food exchanges, fat free or low fat egg nogg with skim milk. My brithday aka New Years good luck. More gym time.
My for the Holiday season is dark Choclate, candy in moderation, food exchanges, fat free or low fat egg nogg with skim milk. My brithday aka New Years good luck. More gym time.
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I would have to go with pumpkin pie and cookies as my holiday weekness. I will need to find some low fat recipes asap.0
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Tyng the searching the internet. I am sure there is Low fat or fat free cookie recipies out there.0
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Nothing for Halloween, Thanksgiving=dumplings!! and Christmas=Fudge and EggNog Croissant french toast!! It's a tradition!!0
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We don't have Halloween or Thanksgiving here :sad: but WOW do we overdo Christmas & birthdays.
Christmas is just a parade of food. I've made my peace with gaining 5lbs on Christmas. For birthdays everyone in the office brings in cakes, pies, sandwich fixings, cookies, tarts, etc. And you're taken out for dinner. My birthday is in 2 weeks & I'm being strict up til then so I can go with the flow on the day.0 -
stuffing and homemade mashed potatoes and gravy
BTW - Candy Corn IS a vegatable - lol0 -
oh really??BTW - Candy Corn IS a vegatable - lol
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Halloween: ALL THE CANDY. ALL OF IT. Doesn't matter. Even candy corn, and I hate the stuff.
Thanksgiving: pumpkin pie of course. Sweet potato casserole. And dinner rolls, I could eat the whole tin of those.
Christmas: my Granddad used to make these (veggie) sausage balls for me and I would eat the entire bowl of them by Christmas morning. Apple cider, chex mix, Christmas cookies, the list goes on and on.0 -
In the UK so Halloween is nothing really and we don't have Thanksgiving. For me at Christmas it's mince pies, Christmas pudding and Christmas cake that are the biggest problem, I can get low cal pate and cheese but not really the other stuff.
New Year doesn't interest me and I'm not much of a drinker so it's not an issue.0 -
We don't really do Halloween here in the Uk, not in a big way anyhow, and we don't have Thanksgiving, but Christmas is the worst time for me and I already dread it, as my self control flies out the window in the face of glittery lights, Christmas dinner and lots of chocolate, cake, biscuits and nuts floating around. I spend it at my mother's so it isn't as if I can just avoid having the stuff around me, lol. I guess I shall just have to accept a temporary gain, maybe hop along to the gym along the road from her for a few sessions and hope for the best.0
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Let's see...what is that thing called around these times that is my weakness. Oh! that's it! EVERYTHING!!! :sad:0
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My mom's stuffing. Like, I could eat the whole bowl full. In recent years we've actually requested she make a second batch of it not baked in the turkey. Everyone loves it, and it's just like... get in my mouth right now. We actually fight over it when we dole out the leftovers, if there happen to be any leftover stuffing.
At Christmas time it's pizelles and gingerbread men and swedish almond cookies and homemade nuts and bolts and butter tarts.
Oh man, the holidays are such a terrible time.0 -
I'm not much of a candy person anymore. My appeal for it disappeared when I started controling my emotional eating and started to really taste things. Now and then I like some M&Ms or Hershey Drops. Thanksgiving, pretty much everything. I LOVE stuffing, regular and the chinese version my grandma made up. I also love pumpkin pie with whipped cream (I make a delicious one and should probably figure out how to make it healthier). Christmas... I'm not quite sure. I guess the buffet place we went last year, which sounded like it may become the new christmas tradition...0
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Seems like every year, I take a two and half month hiatus from reasonable eating and become a crazy, sweet obsessed person. It begins with Halloween and those darned pumpkins!! Then I raid the kids' candy bags for the next couple of weeks until it is down to suckers and sweet tarts(YUCK). By that time, Thanksgiving is around the corner. The mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole and rolls get me every time! And then from Thanksgiving to New Years, it is one continuous eating fest full of the best but worst foods for you. But not this year!! I am determined that I will not be derailed by all the eating potential around me!!0
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for the 2nd year in a row I will spend Thanksgiving doing a Turkey trot (5K) then eat lunch/dinner with my family. Don't really eat a Christmas dinner. New Year's it is usually dinner and a movie with my family.0
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Halloween: reese's cups, chocolate anything
Thanksgiving: everything
Christmas: egg nog, cookies/desserts, misc party foods
New Year's: desserts, misc party foods
Don't know what I'm going to do to combat these temptations yet, other than eating in moderation & up the exercise I guess.0 -
This time of year for me, Pumpkin anything, from pumpkin pies to pumpkin coffee creamer. Candy corn is pretty awesome also.
As for Christmas, My parents and my in-laws always have around Christmas time just bowls of candy sitting around, and I end up eating it without even noticing... that is definitely the worst!0 -
Nothing for Halloween, Thanksgiving=dumplings!! and Christmas=Fudge and EggNog Croissant french toast!! It's a tradition!!
See you in December! :drinker:0 -
halloween - its only pumpkin soup i get excited about
thanksgiving - im british
Christmas - Stuffing! i love stuffing and my gran makes 4 kinds!! and pigs in blankets.. and rum truffles, baileys truffles, chocolate truffles... i make those for gifts though so i dont get many
New year - Cider!0 -
I don't celebrate Halloween, but my son still brings home candy from school...and I love candy...Thanksgiving is the sweet potato pie, Christmas is the cookies and cakes...New years don't have a problem really..0
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Pumpkin Angel Food Cake served with Cool Whip lite
One box angel food cake mix(do not use box instructions)
One 15 ounce can ready mix pumpkin(already has some spices in)
One cup water
One tsp pumpkin pie spice
Mix together well & pour in 9x13 ungreased baking pan.
Bake @ 350 for 30 minutes
Serves 12- 150 cal per serving or 3 WW pts.0 -
Halloween is/was my biggest temptation since I have twins and they come home with more candy than they'll ever know what to do with. Since I've figured out how to make Chocolate Peanut Butter cups without sugar that even my niece and nephew loves, I can avoid that temptation and just throw any leftover candy out.
Thanksgiving I plan on making something special to take with me whoever is hosting this year that almost everyone will like but will still fit in my diet.
Christmas I'm making dinner, so the key would be not to overeat.
New Year's I never go crazy except with alcohol, but I think I can fit a good amount in one day.
I gained most of my weight last year starting at Halloween. This year I'm making an extra effort not to pack the pounds back on.0 -
Oh, lord. The holidays.
Halloween - it's definitely the candy, but now that I live where there aren't many trick-or-treaters, I will get away relatively unscathed. Except for the halloween parties, of course.
Thanksgiving- DANG. It's my favorite food holiday. Just about everything makes me go overboard. All the different types of dressing (corn bread, oyster, etc. etc.), cranberry sauce, pumpkin pies, pecan pies, yams. ALL OF IT.
Christmas - Grape leaves, lamb, dressing, wedding cookies, ALL THE SIDES. And all the candy I get in my stocking
New year - Booze.0 -
Baked goods! And I'm the one baking them!
Basically from the second week in October straight through till the week of Christmas you can bet I am baking something! There are four birthdays, including my own that I bake and decorate cakes for there is pumpkin flavored everything in October and November along with apple banana bread, apple coffee cake and a home made New York Cheese Cake on Thanksgiving I make cookies and peppermint bark for all friends and neighbors for Christmas and I make home made cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast (yes, the ones with the yeast) and on New Years it's Chinese food!
This year I'm trying something new I am going to bake still because I really enjoy it but I am going to "BOO" my friends and neighbors and do something similar for Thanksgiving and Christmas as well if the booing goes over well so that these treats aren't hanging around the house! I really like 'playing' in the kitchen but if they are around the house I will eat them so this should be a fun way to keep my hobby and not be tempted! (Link to boo game http://mycomputerismycanvas.blogspot.com/2010/10/weve-been-booed-printable.html)
Also this year I have picked up extra Zumba classes during the week.
Last year I had a seizure on October 28th and gave myself a concussion while I was seizing had an 8 week recovery time where I worked out very little and then I got the chicken pox vaccine over winter break at school because it was required and I ended up getting very sick for 6 weeks with that because I have an auto immune disease and it was a live virus vaccine. I ended up gaining 25 pounds between the end of October till mid February I do not want to go down that road again! I have lost all that weight and then some but it was discouraging to have to lose weight a second time, I certainly don't want to lose it a third time!0 -
Pumpkin Pie at Thanksgiving
not too concerned about Halloween as there are no kids at home!
and Christmas is two special foods for me, Tortierre, a French Canadian meat pie made with ground pork, and Trifle, a dessert made of layers of custard, fruit, rum soaked pound cake and whipped cream. And I will have some of each, track it and move on. We have holidays every year, they never go away and I will not be giving these two special foods up. I just will eat smaller portions this year!0 -
In the winter its comfort foods that get me. I celebrate pretty much all holidays so, candy is hard but i live in an apartment so we don't get trick or treaters so as long as i don't have the candy at my house im good lol lets hope they don't bring a bunch to work. I do love pumpkin cheesecake for thanksgiving and all the mashed potatoes, and fried potatoes cakes (latkes) at Hanukkah. But Holidays are like once a month so its ok to splurge a little here and there, just don't go overboard with all the holiday parties! The hard part for me is wanting to cook warmer foods like chili and potatoes and HOT CHOCOLATE in the winter! Plus with the time change its harder to have energy to workout cause its dark and feel so late! Just going to have to push through this year. Good luck to all of you.0
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This is really lame of me - but my downfall is the habit of hitting the candy sales after the holidays :blushing:0
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for me, Christmas is the worst followed by thanksgiving....my family always gets together then and has huge dinners. Its not even the dinner that kills me its the snacks , chips, dips and treats that you stand and munch on before dinner...by the time I get to dinner I have already had a couple thousand calories and I still end up eating. If I would just eat the dinner and no snacking, everything would be fine, lol.0
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Anything pumpkin!!!0
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I am not big on Halloween candy so that is usually an easy holiday for me. Thanksgiving is usually a little more difficult. But with I try a little bit of everything and no seconds or large portions.
Christmas KILLS me. I have small children and a large family..... We bake goodies and there is 6 christmas gatherings to contend with. It can get very out of control fast.0 -
I got through Easter but I'm fretting about Halloween. I'm a candy corn junkie and Halloween is my favourite holiday.0
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