I am glad to say I made it through with a very full belly but I am still keto. I had one small nibble of my husbands cherry pie, but otherwise I was right on track. It helped that we stayed home this year and I planned lots of treats like bacon wrapped scallops, chicken wings, shrimp, meatballs, and artichoke dip with low carb veggies. My deal with myself was to not restrict calories if I stayed low carb high fat. I made my goal!

I did get out, but only by approx 13 carbs.

We ate at a one of my fiance's family's homes, and she is older and I ADORE her. I have cooked the past two holidays so she insisted that she was making everything, therefore I didn't want to offend her and be TOO choosy with her foods. I secretly logged as she made bathroom trips, or my fiance was working on her computer and she'd go ask him questions :-P....I chose the things I knew were exact, the closest, and the ones where there were too many options in the diary, I chose the most carb dense. :-P

SO give or take 13, I'll take it. AND I have been satisfied and stuffed since we ate, but I must say...my head hurts. I begin again tomorrow.

No carbs, no cheating! A happy, happy Christmas!

I'm a big fan of cycling, so I don't think it's a big deal to come out of ketosis from time to time. My ancestors would wander up on some fruit from time to time and have a nice splurge until the fruit was back out of season or they had to move on for other reasons. Also, stressing about it is probably the worst thing you can do. Take your days as they come, do what you can, and let the rest go.

If I was just using keto for weight loss I wouldn't care about taking a break, however I am trying to reap some other health benefits, so I am trying to stay keto all the time. Anyways, last night we did dinner at my mother-in-laws last night. She does a food separation diet, so I thought meat would be a separate dish from starch. Not the case! Shepard's pie! Everything else was sugar on starch on sugar. I thought all was lost, keto-wise, so I ate moderate portions of everything. Tested my blood ketones this morning, they were still 0.6! Down from 2.2 the previous morning, but I wasn't completely kicked out. The lesson I've taken from this is that all hope is never lost, and continue to try to minimize the damage. Who knows, I might have been able to save more precious ketones if I'd done things a little differently.

I've been knocked out a couple of times since Thanksgiving...get this...imbibing too much pistachios
:frown: I had to give up cashews cause I over indulged in them too & couldn't control myself :grumble:

Meh. It doesn't take much to knock me out though...126#'s and 6+ months in has me more carb sensitive than ever.

I was knocked out of ketosis since Christmas eve (evening-had several little bites of sweets, a little bit of puerto rican rice and some rum). Weigh in was Friday and still lost 2 lbs.

Took till this morning (verified by pee stick) that I am back in ketosis. Still have some leftovers, but only eating the left over pork. Yum Yum!

I hung in there! hooray. I was in charged of mashed potatoes. I brought both mashed potatoes and mashed cauliflower (full of cheese and butter) I had a nice scoop of cauliflower, fried turkey, and green beans. Probably hit the red wine more than I should have, but did steer clear of the desserts.

I was the only one not feeling nauseated from over indulging at the end of the evening, yet I did not feel one bit deprived.

I'm completely out of keto thanks to many potatoes, some champagne and some Christmas lava cake. I'm not stressing on it too much since I also managed to (hopefully for the last time) quit smoking. I've gained a few pounds but didn't hurt anyone through the withdrawls and hoping to be back in keto as soon as I can.