We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!
Strategies for Eating Out on Shabbat
wendymoira
Posts: 40 Member
Like a lot of people on this board, the place where my calorie-counting efforts fall down is on Shabbat (and by extension holidays, but in the summer I'm thinking Shabbat). I enjoy both hosting and going to friends' houses for Shabbat meals, and if I'm going somewhere it's very difficult to control what foods I will be offered. (Also, whipping out either my digital food scale or my smartphone to check calories is Not Happening, which is why I'm posting in this group!) I don't want to be that person who reels off her dietary guidelines before accepting an invitation, and I can only get so far by logging all my walking and then being that person who always offers to bring the fruit plate. Any tips or ideas?
0
Replies
-
I don't want to make light of anyone's problems but I think that after a few weeks of tracking calories, you know that yerushalmi kugel is very high in calories-per-bite and which things are lower in calories. If you make some wise decisions you can enjoy a shabbat meal without eating 1,500 calories.
If the only thing that matters is calories, one day of a high but unknown number of calories will not ruin the program and it will make it easier to be strict with yourself the following 6 days.
Wishing you hatzlacha!0 -
Start learning when your body is feeling satiated. Eat more slowly. Practice during the week, so when Shabbat rolls around, you're ready.0
-
It's getting easier, yes. [Although my brilliant plan to avoid so-so bought desserts at kiddushes has foundered because now my house is full of awesome desserts I made or people brought for RH. Time to get off the sugar kick again.]0
This discussion has been closed.