Logging on thanksgiving?

I will pre log, here goes - 10,000 calories. Think I'm being too conservative? I can only hope that I can get that much in me. It's a Holiday for Heaven's sake. Enjoy and feast! You may gain 3-5 lbs of food weight but probably less than a lb of fat weight. 3 days from now, you will be back where you were (unless you keep feasting) IMHO.

My Thanksgiving is just about over (I have pre-logged my desserts), and I ended up staying below maintenance. I consumed around 1450 calories for the day, with about 630 allocated to dinner. I'm disappointed in myself -I used to be able to eat 2,700 calories in one meal, and I was starting to feel satisfied after maybe 150-200 calories of food (I probably had close to 3.5-4 cups of different cooked vegetables).

What I don't understand was my grandmother telling me "don't stuff myself." Woman, I just took insulin for all the food on my plate, and I have a ton of banked calories from my basal testing (fasting) days this week. Did I eat past my fullness signals? Yup (I was starting to feel satisfied 6-7 bites in, but I was locked into eating the food because of my insulin). Do I feel bloated and stuffed? Nope.

On the bright side, I have a big container of leftover turkey breast calling my name for the next few days.

I ate about all I could stand and hit about 3000 calories which is right about maintenance for me at my current weight. Now I want a lower weight but today isn't a big deal. Tomorrow is what I need to focus on to avoid any gain.

we don't have thanksgiving here . But I shall attempt to pre-log on Christmas day. I'm not sure why though, as I will be so far off the mark that logging would be pretty pointless! At least it'll keep my streak going.

I log faithfully everyday and don't plan on stopping because of a holiday. I do not plan on back sliding. If II know I am going to be over on the holiday, I would like a rough ideas of how bad. I actually am pretty proud of myself today. Went a little over but not overboard and even factored in dessert!!

i'm not logging because it's so hard to guesstimate how much i ate lol. so i just logged my breakfast and am just going to assume that i went over my calorie limit for the day.

Strawblackcat wrote: »

I logged thanksgiving. I know that a lot of people reason not logging by saying that it's one day a year and that it's the other 365 that make you gain weight, but I look at it like this: Yes, thanksgiving is "only one day". But so is Christmas. And Halloween. And New Year's. And your birthday. And the neighbor's cookout. All those "just one day"s add up to a lot of days.

Besides, it's pretty easy for me to log in holidays anyway. I can't eat wheat or milk (unless it's lactose-free), so that eliminates most potluck dishes for me. I just ate a baked sweet potato and some raw veggies at dinner with my extended family, which was easy enough to log, and are a better meal when I got home.

Easy for me to log, too. Just copied and edited last year's Thanksgiving. The only difference for the main meal was the type of wine and the rolls, which I made using a different recipe from last year, and I had already entered the recipe while the dough was rising. For the apps this year I only had one that is always on our Thanksgiving menu (turkey liver "pate" -- actually more like chopped liver), so I deleted the others from last year. I did have to swap out last year's apple pie for this year's cherry hand pie.

Admittedly, lots of estimating involved. Came out to about 1500 for the main meal, and about 2900 for the day, which still leaves me on course for a small deficit for the week.

I wasn't planning to eat more than my calories today, as we don't even celebrate Thanksgiving. When I heard my mom was making chicken, baked mac n cheese, potato salad and possibly dressing, i wasn't certain of the calories in the mac n cheese or chicken and decided at first I'd just look up the recipe mom was using for dressing and try to choose between a portion of mac and 800 something calories of dressing, my fave foods. In the end, i just had a portion of all three dishes (mom didn't have cornmeal for dressing ) plus desserts and probably went over. A little annoyed with myself, but just hope i do gr8 tomorrow.

It's actually pretty funny now that I think about it. I can't eat (regular) bread or rolls, but I love making it, and I'm really good at it. My family always has me make them since everyone loves them, and I'm more than happy to comply, but I can't enjoy them myself. Oh well, more calories for me, I guess!

blambo61 wrote: »

blambo61 wrote: »

I will pre log, here goes - 10,000 calories. Think I'm being too conservative? I can only hope that I can get that much in me. It's a Holiday for Heaven's sake. Enjoy and feast! You may gain 3-5 lbs of food weight but probably less than a lb of fat weight. 3 days from now, you will be back where you were (unless you keep feasting) IMHO.

I'm upset, my shrunk stomach has probably only gotten in 3k cals today, I cant eat much more.

Mon before thanksgiving 220 lbs. Sunday after thanksgiving 223lbs. Two days later 220lbs.