Thanksgiving - What will you eat?

I will be helping at least 10 people manhandle a 28-lb turkey, which will be in the oven and NOT a fryer. (I'd LOVE to go for a turkey drumstick!) As for everything else, I'll probably do a little stuffing, a little sweet potato, and perhaps a little fruit salad. It's my first holiday season since being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, so I'm well aware I have got to be careful about HOW MUCH I eat this time.

I am going to first fill one plate with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn (I will also make several jokes about the corn while eating it), and whatever else I see that I want to eat.

But I'll only fill ONE plate.

Then, when the plate is clean, I'll grab a new plate and fill it again.

I will repeat this process until one of the following things happens:

a) I am in mild pain.
b) The pie is cut and ready to be served.

If a) happens before b), I will pause until b).

And then I will eat pie.


I will not feel any guilt or remorse after this.
I will also brag about it on my wall, after not logging a damn thing.

Love your thinking!

I will eat anything I want. "How much" I eat of what I want will be different this year. I am planning on putting more healthy foods on the table (like a vegetable & fruit tray, replacing yeast rolls with wheat rolls) along with the other traditional foods, this way I have more of a choice. I will also take a walk after dinner instead of taking that nice nap. I don't plan to log in my food on Thanksgiving day. Hope everyone has a good holiday!

I am going to first fill one plate with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn (I will also make several jokes about the corn while eating it), and whatever else I see that I want to eat.

But I'll only fill ONE plate.

Then, when the plate is clean, I'll grab a new plate and fill it again.

I will repeat this process until one of the following things happens:

a) I am in mild pain.
b) The pie is cut and ready to be served.

If a) happens before b), I will pause until b).

And then I will eat pie.


I will not feel any guilt or remorse after this.
I will also brag about it on my wall, after not logging a damn thing.

You, sidesteel, are my hero. I will giggle all day thinking of this post and then show it to my husband because he will think it is hilarious as well.

ditto. 1 plate. i don't need more food than can fit on a plate. I will log my food though and just have a smoothie and egg for breakfast and soup for dinner. I anticipate Tday meal to be around 1000 calories.

I intend on eating just about everything that looks good, but just getting one plate instead of seconds/thirds. I couldn't imagine logging food on Thanksgiving and I don't intend to.

^_^ this lmao. i so just busted out laughing in the library ^_^

I am going to make Apple Cider and Ginger Brined turkey, with cauliflower and broccoli in swiss cheese sauce, along with candied carrots and parsnips, and some celery root/potato/pear mash. Dessert will be vanilla yogurt ice cream and small piece of pumpkin pie.

Turkey = 543 cal, cauliflower/broccoli = 177 cal, carrots/parsnips = 159 cal, potato mash = 229 cal....meal = under 1100.

So plan on a early day of walking around the neighborhood.

My first plate will have a pile of turkey, white and dark, then a mound of mashed potatoes, a goodly portion of stuffing, maybe a few green beans, a decent slathering of gravy over all of it.

My second plate will be similar to the first, with just slightly smaller portions than the first time around, and likely no green beans.

Then my dessert plate will have a slice of pumpkin pie covered in just whipped heavy cream and a slice of pecan pie next to it.

But before I even get to the plates of food I will be picking at the crispy bits of the turkey where the stuffing and the skin of the cavity have fused together into this glorious mix of bread and crispy fat. I am infamous in my house for attacking these areas as soon as the birds come out of the oven.

I plan on eating what I normally eat every thanksgiving. Turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, yams... I know there will also be stuffing, green bean casserole, and cranberry sauce, but I hate those and therefore won't touch them. And I'm going to have pie for dessert. And I'm not going to log it either. I am going to enjoy myself after all these weeks of working hard to stay under my calorie goal, and I know I'm physically incapable of consuming enough food to gain back weight in one day.

BUT, I will only have ONE plate of food. And ONE slice of pie.

(Well, on the actual day... eventually I'll have more than one serving total thanks to leftovers. I will track those when I have them.)

Actually... I might go ahead and track Thanksgiving dinner. Just to see what it comes out to. LOL!

My MIL's stuffing is the bomb..I know it has at least 2 sticks of butter..it will be my big splurge:bigsmile: Some turkey breast, a bit of ham, some cranberry sauce, 1 roll, yes, with butter. carrots and celery with dip. I will most likely skip most of the "veggies" cooked southern style in butter and cream(casseroles). Dessert will be something she actually serves as an appetizer. Pumpkin cream cheese dip that has 1 box of powdered sugar in it and full-fat cream cheese. It is so good.

Turkey
stuffing
homemade noodles
broccoli casserole
green bean casserole
mashed potatoes with gravy
hot rolls...not sure if I will make from scratch, but likely will be out of a package
pumpkin pie (from scratch) and sweetened, whipped cream dolloped on top

and that's about it, I think :smokin:


ETA: And I see some people won't be logging. I will log ALL the food. Not logging would be cheating, in my book.

Oh yeah, and I'll log every single, calorie loaded, bite. A cheat day is only a cheat on the calories consumed, not on the faithful logging to the diary. When the scale jumps in the days following, I don't want there to be this random empty day in the log. I want to see my causes and effects.

And gravy is to savory food like frosting is to cake. It should be applied to all in sight and in plentiful amounts.

since it's just one day-
sensible serving of: turkey, green beans, pineapple casserole, sweet potatoe casserole, slice of pie, and a glass or two of wine.

then, the next day I will go right back on track with what I normally do. I will also do the same thing on Christmas.

This!

i will eat everything! in portion control...YUM! turkey, stuffing, green beans, cranberry sauce and mashed taters! oh boy im hungry