Dreading the bird..thanksgiving is approaching!!

I say enjoy it. Thanksgiving comes once a year and life is too short not to indulge every now and then. Just plan accordingly and don't overdo it.

I will eat

a few ounces of Turkey (breast Meat- No skin, no gravy
A tablespoon of cranberry sauce
A tablespoon of potatoes (mashed and/or sweet)
A cup of veggies

AS far as desserts go.. it will depend on what choices I have..
Generally Pumpkin pie is one I cannot say no too.. but I will take a smaller slice and I won't eat the crust!!

What will cause me to go over that day will be the wine!!
I drink at holidays and weddings.. and I will not make excuses but I will try to make allowances!! Longer work out, shaving calories during that week.. Whatever it takes!!

ENJOY!!

The holidays are a handful of days out of the year. I tend to enjoy them to the fullest!!! They will not sabotage a whole years worth of hard work and dedication. What will sabotage it is NOT getting right back into healthy eating habits and sensible portions the day after. Come the Friday morning after Thanksgiving I will be at the gym working my butt off and gearing up for the upcoming Christmas feast! YOLO!!!

My thanksgiving plan includes a very long strenuous hike (3.5 hrs) in the morning. this allows me to consume a ton of calories later on my only food limitation will be 1 piece of pie rather than poke mon style where you "gotta catch em all"

I am bringing my own cal safe dessert and will be skipping meat and eating just veggies.

I'm the one who cooks Thanksgiving dinner so that helps. I make all the traditional food--turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, vegetables, ambroisa,butter rolls, and pies. I poll my sons and daughters-in-law for the two kinds of pies I will bake. I eat lots of turkey and vegetables on Thanksgiving Day; not much potatoes, gravy, stuffing or ambrosia and only part of a roll, but yes, I eat some. If I didn't I'd feel deprived. I have a small piece of one kind of pie in the evening.

I send the leftovers (ALL the pie!) home with my sons and daughters-in-law, I make turkey vegetable soup the day after Thanksgiving for me and my husband.

You would need to all of your maintenance calories, plus an entire pecan pie, to gain ONE pound on Thanksgiving. .

Don't put this beyond me. I make the best bourbon pecan pie and rum pumpkin pie . . . I generally have to make more than one of each because we fight over the last piece and then are sad on friday where there's nothing left.

it's just one day, it will be better if you have dinner earlier rather then after 9pm ... that will help the digestion.
Other than that go for it, everything, I agree fill up your plate once, don't have seconds.

taste rather than eat the desserts, and enjoyed your holiday, some others said, it's just one day it's not going to mess up your eating habits and I agree, unless you are planning on overeating all day long whole cakes, buckets of ice cream, etc - then i will suggest a detox the next day :laugh:

I am going to destroy some food on Thanksgiving. It is gonna be ugly and I am going to love every bite.

Amen!!! It's Thanksgiving!! I'm going to cook all day so that burns calories right? Hell I'm smashing! 2nds? Hell yes! 3rds at 11pm? Maybe!

Yep. Gonna graze through the morning. Then have a big plate with everything. Then maybe seconds on my favorites. Then desert. Then late night thirds before bed.

Then the next day I should be super charged for some insane workout of some kind. Maybe a hike in the woods or something. Gonna be RAD!

Yes I said rad. :bigsmile:

I totally expect to gain 2 lbs that day because I will be polishing off wine with my dinner. And that's ok because I will have a month until NYE.