Food Scale/Easter Sunday

HELL NO!

I'm going to eat until I feel sick, and then it's back to business as usual Monday morning. Live a little - it's just one day!

Also, I'm pretty sure my family would never let me live it down if I brought my food scale with me on Easter. And my in-laws - oh, they'd never let me forget it.

Has anyone else taken their food scale to a family function where food is a focal point?

Yes I have. I may have gotten teased for it, but I don't care, I want to keep on track every day.

Yes. I use my food scale at family meals where its just my immediate family. I havent taken it to the larger extended family potluck style events yet though but thats more because I couldnt make the one at Christmas and that group doesn't get together often. I want accurate data in my diary so I try to weigh everything. I tend to let myself eat my TDEE at holidays though, so its not so much about the goal calories as the accuracy of the data and keeping myself somewhat in check.

I have been considering this same thing. We typically go to my MIL's for Easter and though we haven't discussed, I imagine we'll do the same this year. I have to work that day and not sure what time I'll go in so that's the only caveat. But I do think I'll take the food scale also.

PS-My MIL is very supportive of my efforts. Hubby is losing weight also but does well to have on & off days. Even on my higher calorie days, I like to track. Keeps me honest...

HELL NO!

I'm going to eat until I feel sick, and then it's back to business as usual Monday morning. Live a little - it's just one day!

Also, I'm pretty sure my family would never let me live it down if I brought my food scale with me on Easter. And my in-laws - oh, they'd never let me forget it.

It isn't something I would do at my boyfriend's family events, but this Easter is just my mom, dad, sister-in-law, and three nephews.

Then go for it! To each their own.

I just see it like this: There are only about four "eating holidays" each year (in the US, anyway). Letting go for one day is not going to cause you to gain weight. People seem to think eating what they want on Easter is going to make them gain 10 lbs. In order to gain 1 lb, you need to eat 3500 calories over your MAINTENANCE calories. For me, that's about 2000. So 2000 + 3500 = 5500 calories in one day. I seriously doubt I could eat that much on Easter, but even if I did, it's one pound. One tiny little pound. In order to gain two lbs, I'd need to eat 9000 calories. That's simply not going to happen. If I am at my mom's and there's a Reese's Egg sitting on the table, that thing is going in my belly, and I'll be damned if I'm going to yank out my phone to log the calories. I'm going there to celebrate with my family and be in the moment. And yes, taking 5 minutes to weigh, log, and obsess over my intake on that one day WILL make me enjoy it less. I know that if I log on that day, I'm going to feel guilty for going over my weekly goal. And feeling guilty for that during a holiday is stupid, so I just avoid it all by not logging. I also won't be eating less this week or next to "make up" for it. I'm eating as I normally do both before and after Easter Sunday.

Like ShannonMpls said, that's not a lifestyle I choose to live. I think it's great to log daily and weigh/measure all foods, and I do, but that's not what holidays are about to me. I'm not going to take my scale with me to Easter dinner this year because I don't plan to do it every Easter for the rest of my life. I'm not doing anything now that I don't plan on doing forever.

But like I said, go for it if that's what you want to do.

If I were you I would go ahead and take the scale. No one will judge you and you'll feel better. Heck, you might even motivate some of your family members!

I would not take my food scale to a family holiday event and weigh my food. That is not a lifestyle I choose to live. And one thing I decided when I first began this just shy of three years ago was that I wouldn't incorporate any change I was not willing to stick to for the rest of my life.

Instead, I like Go Kaelo's approach to holiday food:

Eat the food lovingly prepared for you by your family and friends. Then, the next day, go back to your regular eating and exercise routine.

This is how I have also chosen to live. My food scale stays home....but to each their own! Do what makes you feel best, but for me, I don't want to take it to that level.

It isn't something I would do at my boyfriend's family events, but this Easter is just my mom, dad, sister-in-law, and three nephews.

Given this, and your own knowledge of your family and yourself, I don't see the harm. In the same situation I'd just eyeball it and make reasonable choices about what to eat and how much, like I do at restaurants, but since I'm cooking on Easter, I'm certainly going to measure and log. I don't see how what you are suggesting is much different, and for me it doesn't interfere with the enjoyment.

Wow, don't be the "crazy lady."

Just use your best judgement and try to keep the serving size down.

What is funny is some of my biggest weight loss weeks are ones where i had a family function and ate a little more loosely for a meal or two.

Maybe my body likes the jumpstart?

That is something that I would never do.

In the end, what matters most is what makes you happy. If you're more comfortable bringing your scale, knock yourself out.