Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years

I would have to go with pumpkin pie and cookies as my holiday weekness. I will need to find some low fat recipes asap.

Nothing for Halloween, Thanksgiving=dumplings!! and Christmas=Fudge and EggNog Croissant french toast!! It's a tradition!!

stuffing and homemade mashed potatoes and gravy

BTW - Candy Corn IS a vegatable - lol

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

Nothing for Halloween, Thanksgiving=dumplings!! and Christmas=Fudge and EggNog Croissant french toast!! It's a tradition!!

See you in December! :drinker:

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..

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.