How do you plan on eating right this Thanksgiving and Holiday season?

Moderation for me!

I planned and iniput my feast months back. I won't waste calories on things like pie crust, or sweetened beverages, but will have a tiny piece of pumpkin pie. I will also eat pecan pie at the church bazaar where I can only eat one, and leave the rest of the pie there. No one eats it at my house and I would "have" to finish it. It IS a sin to waste food....

I will try not to go overboard, but I will have at least a little of pretty much everything and log it as best I can. Then when I wake up from the turkey coma, I will get right back on plan

Same as the last 2 years. Moderation, but if I go over, no biggie.

It's just a bit bigger meal than normal because I do have a portion of dessert, which is not part of my daily dinner. I go the route of putting everything on one plate and make certain the veggies take up half of it.

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here.

But come Christmas, I hope to be in maintenance, and I will be taking a diet break for a few days then.

Like a Viking!! :drinker:

That sounds like what I plan to do. I had success throughout the holiday season before, so it works. I'm going to eat more turkey and small servings of casserole and mashed potatoes. I will eat field peas. I am going to pass on rolls but eat some cranberry sauce. I will eat a piece of pecan pie. I am making half the amount of potatoes and casserole so that we won't be left with loads of leftovers. Here's the key, I am not going to eat the leftovers the next few days after, except for the turkey and field peas.

small breakfast, squeeze in a elliptical workout. Easy on the drinks but definitely will enjoy the meal, have some pie, treats. I'll go over but it will be worth it.

I'm gaining but I don't have many calories per day for a bulk, so I'll probably shave off a few hundred here or there that week and then just have at it on Thanksgiving.

The main thing about holidays... is it is not just one day! There are always leftovers. Family will be visiting and lots of food will be present. So, really, you need to be good for more than one day. I will go with moderation and and portion control. Eat lightly in the morning and evening. NO snacking!!! I hate the feeling of eating too much, so my plate will be small.

I'm being a bit of a numbers freak right now. At a goal of 1.5 pounds per week of weight loss, MFP sets us at a 750 calorie deficit per day, or 5,250 calorie deficit per week. For me personally, that's a target goal of 1630 calories per day.

My plan to "eat right" on Thanksgiving is to be as accurate as possible in logging what I eat. Even if I eat double my daily goal (which would be 3,260 calories) that one day and hit my target the 6 other days, I will have maintained a 3,620 calorie deficit for that week period.

I just posted this elsewhere:

My rules are this:

1. Nothing goes past my lips unless I ((((((((((((((L.O.V.E.))))))))))))))))) it. As in, abso-freaking-lutely LOVE it. This already cuts my choices by at least 60%. For example: I hate most people's pie crust, so almost any holiday pie put out as a treat, you can guarantee I'll pass - there are only 3 pies in the world I will eat and enjoy: my mothers (she's been dead since 2000, so we're safe there), my brother's (not the same recipe, and he lives 3,000 miles away, so we're safe there) and my friend Sue's. And I get to have Sue's pie on Thanksgiving.

2. I am most definitely going to indulge on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, our office Christmas party, New Years, and any occasional party I may be invited to (not many as I'm not really a sociable person). PROVIDED:

--the day before and after, I eat more lightly,
--before the party/festivity, I eat less than I normally would,
--and I absolutely make it to the gym the day before and the day after. I don't see it as punishment, but as a way to "finance" my calorie expenditures. LOL

This Christmas will be tricky as we will be away visiting family in Missouri...but we'll be doing touristy things walking around a lot so..I will cut myself a break on the gym for Christmas/Christmas Eve.

3. Remember that just because it's there, doesn't mean I have to eat it. Refer to Rule #1.

Last year I had a plan but I was hungry that day so my plan went out of the window and I stuffed my face.

This year, I'm going to TRY to save calories the rest of the week (I've eaten pretty horribly the last week because of PMS from Hell and I'm not sure exactly when it's going to stop), hoping that I won't be very hungry that day and can make do with just a small breakfast and lunch to save calories for it, avoid the cheese and crackers that are always available there, then skip what I don't care for, have a bit of turkey and mashed potatoes (sweet potatoes I might skip as I'm sure my husband will drown it in sugary stuff) and try not to eat too much pie (if I could I'd just skip the whole meal and only eat dessert). And hopefully fit in a good workout that morning too (but if I can't, I'm planning to have a good workout every day this week anyway).

But it's the pies that always do me in, so I'm hoping they actually didn't make extra pies like every single year... two for 9 people is plenty...