Anybody Else Taking the Xmas Break?

So im taking a xmas break from measuring and weighing and eating strictly healthy. Im treating myself pretty much everyday to sweets and whatever I want acutally. Im not over weight by any means. I just want to lose fat % and I plan to do that in the New Year. For now, I wanna eat and have fun! I have just completed StrongLifts for 12 weeks - Im taking a little break from that too. Starting a whole new plan up for Janurary. Im still not going to log though, I am safe eyeballing food - done it before and it worked. Healthy in moderation works. As for exercise, I will get it when i feel like it over these holidays. Prob in the form of shovelling snow, sledding and cc skiing. Might get a bit of lifting in there too. Never know. Anyways, this is about a 3.5 week break for me and im gonna enjoy it. Anybody else doing this sort of thing? Thanks for sharing in advance.

I am currently reaching my fourth month of not logging. I have been focused on maintaining through better habits without logging or weighing food. Using MFP, I lost 71 pounds in a single year. It took me nearly 15 years to gain all that weight, mostly from being sedentary (lazy) and eating an extra dessert too often. Having identified those two major problems, I am focused on keeping my new habits and not reverting to the old ones. I have regained my body's ability to give me appropriate hunger signals, and have been doing well at staying active instead of sitting in front of the TV all evening after work. However, about six months after joining MFP, I decided that I would not use exercise as an excuse to eat more, neither would I concern myself with calorie burns during exercise.

I have also learned that I truly can eat any foods that I want without gaining weight. I just can't eat as much as I want of high calorie items. ("Know when to say 'when'") I am still enjoying the thrill of being the size I was 15 years ago, but I am pretty sure that I will decide to begin logging again in January. After Christmas, I expect to have the rest of what I need to begin weight lifting again, and I think I want to log my food at that point, though my cut will be small, and I won't be strict with it.

(Also you can do a search of the forums on "diet break" and find lots of great threads. :flowerforyou: )

I am - sorta. I have cut back my exercise a bit and I'm logging but am meeting my calories most days and went over a day or 2 in the last couple weeks. And yes, I'm eating some sweets here and there, however still eating a healthy breakfast and salads and lean meat for lunches. Also trying to get in plenty of water! I have maintained so far this month. I will def be raging the burn in Janruary!

As a teacher, I am off for 16 days so I plan to vamp it up! I have already slowed down big time on exercise and if I stop on everything for two weeks, I will shut down completely. I am hoping this break is what I need to get going again.

I do plan on eating sweets and enjoying, just not overboard!

Nope. I know if I take a break that long I won't want to get back on track. I'm not counting calories for Christmas dinner and will probably not eat much before that meal, but I couldn't take a whole break. I'm in this for a lifestyle change. I didn't count Thanksgiving and I won't count Christmas because once I reach my goal weight I won't be doing that. I also don't deprive myself of sweets entirely. I think I had a lot of sugar this week actually... so a break for me would really just be me stuffing my face with all kinds of sweets and gaining back the 16bs I lost already.

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Don't think you would ever gain 16lbs in 3weeks!

I gained 13 lbs. on a six day carribbean cruise. HONESTLY! It can be done. Can you imagine how much I ate (& drank)? The buffet & food places were open 19 hours a day and I was gonna get my money's worth.

I try and take one day off a month to relax the calorie counting and satisfy any cravings I've been having on that day. This month I decided Christmas will be the day. Merry Christmas everyone!

i wont track calories on Christmas eve and Christmas but defiantly not taking anymore of a break then that. but i will continue my usual work out routine just to keep up my progress Have a great holiday!

lol wut? No.

Diet and exercise isn't seasonal, it's a way of life.

Xmas break from work but not from my exercise

I call it bulking...

But the answer is yes. I will be visiting my parents from Christmas to New Year's.
I will be bloated and hammered the whole time and will regret nothing.

Yes! I am reaching my ultimate goal weight of 130 lbs this week.

Huge congratulations!!!!

I just started a strict healthy diet as well as the p90x program yesterday. A bad time to start with the holidays around the corner, but I figured I would treat myself here and there to sweets since they come everyday at my work and the temptation is just too much. Although I will treat myself here and there, my workouts are intensive and i plan on working extra hard to burn what I can of the extra sweets. Then after the new year, its back to basics.

I'm currently maintaining.

I'll spend Christmas maintaining AND eating cookies. I'm taking a 1.5 week break from the gym.

Calories don't scare me!

I wont track accurately on X-Mas or X-Mas Eve, i will eat whatever I want. But I will more than likely work out a little harder that week.

I'm not yet at my goal, I'll take Christmas day off the rest of the days I'll eat the sweet treats in moderation an train more I'll be back in the gym the day it reopens. I'm going gym as much as I can before Christmas .

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