Christmas dieting :)

I'm doing the same thing I did for Thanksgiving. I'm going to be logging everything and eating what I enjoy until I'm satisfied. I didn't manage to go over my calories on Thanksgiving (though I was hoping I would) but maybe I will on Christmas. I'll be making my Peanut Butter Fudge and it has always been easy to eat myself sick on that. Guess we'll see what happens this year!

I don't celebrate Christmas (I'm not religious). In Christmases past I have spent the day eating food and binge watching television at home with my pets. Everything is closed so it was an excuse to be lazy. This year I have access to a 24hr gym, so I'll be working out and just having a normal day. I'm lucky. Christmas seems like such a crazy hassle.

I am spending Christmas with a small group of close family and we have decided to have a fondue (very retro..). There will be lots of interesting cuts of meat and sausage for us to fondue as well as a selection of veggies. Those of us who have no issue with carbs (myself included) will add some bread. We will finish with a chocolate fondue!

I will log everything and I will surely be over but it is not a big deal, it is just one day. I have already overcome plenty of other party hurdles this festive season and I am still losing.

My success the rest of December seems to hinge on my ability to not fill my house with additional treats like Christmas cake, mince pies and that sort of thing. I have managed to do that so far. Those things are my downfall - but if I don't see them or smell them or have a single one, I am fine. Moderation works for everything except mince pies! (I can nosh a tray).

I am going to just eat what I feel like eating. It will slow my weight loss down a tiny bit, but Christmas is a time for indulgence to me! Given that I'd have to overeat by 3500 calories to gain a pound, I doubt I will gain any significant amount of weight.

I'll be tracking, but not passing up on anything tasty. That said, I've just looked at my diary from two years ago (last Christmas I was on hiatus and didn't track) and I want to at least make better choices on the in between days. Soooo many leftovers that year!

I've been eating between TDEE-20 and maintenance for the last few weeks, even above maintenance on separate days (my birthday) and it avarages out to about a pound a week loss or just under. So I intend do go on like that, keep tracking everything as best I can, eat all the delicious food in quantiites that satisfy me without going overboard, and hopefully even end up a little lower after new year's, be it even just a pound compared to now.

I find tracking, even when I am not restricting the calories, helps me realize when I am full and not go on eating mindlessly.

Christmas ? dieting? should NEVER go in the same sentence. How about just trying to make some 50-50 healthy choices during the holiday. Don't beat yourself up, it's just not worth it.

I can't be sure how I will handle it all. I'm hoping for each "event" my partner and I have, that I can keep the rest of the day low cal and not have to stress during parties. I'm also trying out a much higher Deficit this week, so lower calories, in hopes that any overages won't impact me too much. I'm trying not to stress out about it but I have food issues so it's tough. But if I tighten up now maybe I will have built some more will power by then.

I am going to track what I eat (just because I like to have the data), but eat what I feel like having on Christmas Day.

MissLincolnTaylor wrote: »

I'm curios to know what everyone plans on doing next week with their diets on Christmas day. Are you tracking the food you ate? Are you having the day off?

Well, I'd *planned* on eating normally for the week, maybe taking an extra 100 calories deficit a day to make up for our office Christmas dinner on Friday when I won't be able to get in the exercise after work I normally would but.....the cinnamon streusel cake happened. And the cashews happened. And the armenian cookies happened. And the donuts happened. And the taste of a truffle happened.

I'm going to still log but....it's only Tuesday for god's sakes!

I can out exercise most of my diet but that second old fashioned donut is calling my name. Loudly.

(I know this was for Christmas week but I don't do anything special on Christmas day so....)