Christmas snacking!!

You can't avoid all the temptations. I'm an adult so I make the decision not to eat every cookie that's shoved in my face, it's not hard to do. If you really want to eat Christmas junk food just budget for it. I'd rather eat something substantial than a cheap cookie or cake though. If you're just talking about one day, it's not going to totally ruin your progress if you indulge for one day.

I know the feeling abbey love this time of year with the cookies, hot chocolats and sweets and and and. i find it very hard too, what i m trying at the moment is if i do something like baking cookies on a day, i ll see that i skip a meal, probably not the healthiest way. But i know i cant stop myself from deliciouse cookies so i do that.

I don't snack. I will eat freely at family Christmas celebrations eating whatever and how much as I want. I will do the same at the couple of other Christmas celebrations I will be at. All the other days, the vast majority of them in December, I will eat at my calories. That is my intention. The difficulty is following through with it.

I'm having a horrible time with the holiday eating season. It's not so bad at home, where I control what I'm cooking and buying, but at work, the food has been ENDLESS. Since Halloween, bowls of candy, several staff parties (during work hours, which you are expected to attend), lots of homemade treats have all appeared. We've got yet another potluck I have to attend, this one for three hours. I have not done well and am up 2 pounds after a week of eating way too much. This afternoon I have a mandatory two-hour-long meeting with boxes of Dunkin Donuts sitting on the table.

Food drives me absolutely crazy these days. It makes me incredibly anxious, and I think about it all the time. I want to not have this issue anymore but I don't know what to do. I've lost 93 pounds and still have at least another 60 to go, and I work out up to two hours a day. It makes me feel a little resentful when I hear people who say things like "Just put the fork down and have a little self-control." I can hold off for a while...but eventually I buckle and binge. It's so frustrating. I've come so far, but I'm afraid that every bite will put me right back up to 290 pounds. I don't feel like I can just have a single nibble or one cookie without it leading to a binge. My mind just shuts off when I'm eating, and I can get in thousands of calories in minutes (isn't hard with donuts, which are 400 a pop.) It's like just knowing that food is in the vicinity sets off a klaxon in my head. "Food available--eat! Food available--eat!" I'll eat until I feel physically sick, why do I do that?

christmas is one day...it's pretty irrelevant to the bigger picture.

lemurcat12 wrote: »

SuggaD wrote: »

I'll be eating all the goodies. But will not stuff myself. So a little every day. Pie, ice cream, cookies, cakes, rich foods. This is my favorite time of year and I'm going to enjoy it. No stressing about food. All things in moderation.

Yes, this.

Yup, me, too!

Well, first night of my MIL's Christmas cookies in our home I lost it. I ate like 4 of them. But last night I had none and probably won't tonight either. I went through and picked out my favorites and put them in a baggie in the freezer. This way I don't worry about the men in my house eating them all before I have a day with room for a cookie, so there's no sense of urgency that I will miss out. That helps. I also plan to keep to my Cal goals until my big holidays where I will eat at maintenance. There's a few of them: Christmas Eve and Day, my anniversary with my partner and his birthday (we are celebrating them together in a hotel visit, big dinner one night and a nice breakfast next day). I don't have new years plans so normal day. Then I plan to cut back or exercise more the first two weeks of Jan and be eating freely for my birthday on the 15th. Then there's no more holidays for a while so I'm sure it all will even out

Mostly I try to keep the temptations out of the house at the very least. Except the cookies.my mother likes to gift cookies too but she understands my plight and won't this year, just like the last two as I have been on this journey. She knows the struggle!

rileysowner wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

christmas is one day...it's pretty irrelevant to the bigger picture.

As someone else said, either here or in another thread, it is not what you eat between Thanksgiving and New Year's day that is the problem -- It is what you eat between New Year's Day and Thanksgiving.

Very interesting...However, I've only just started my WLJ and I think I'm going to hold off and eat sensibly for this Christmas. Just to prove I can do it, really. I'll still have whatever meats and cheeses and veg they have, just no potatoes or sweets. Or, the lowest calorie, most keto-friendly sweet. Maybe I'll make something safe for myself and bring it along.

But I totally do agree, it's one day. If I were further along, I might just throw caution to the wind and eat whatever. But I'm just beginning, and every little bit counts.

I usually eat a small breakfast and light lunch if I know there will be a party or dinner foods later. Also like someone said up the exercise(just a bit) but do not stress and do toooo much_ i have fallen in that trap as well.