Is Easter going to make it hard..

Yep

Unless you cook, measure and weigh every single thing you are eating there is no way to know for sure if you are sticking within your calories. You can ballpark it but if you are eating a dish someone else prepared your calorie count is not going to be accurate. Who cares anyway, it's one day. Eat reasonably, don't go crazy, enjoy it and get back to weighing and measuring on Monday.

There'll be a lot of opportunities to over eat, so possibly! I have a food scale, and am the one cooking, so I'll be weighing everything out. My plan is to stick to portions, but have whatever foods I want.

No. It's just another day for me, food-wise. My church has a breakfast that I've been assigned to take coffee cake for. I'm dropping it off and going home to eat and then will go back for church service later. Nobody in my family likes the breakfast foods there so I'm not wasting my calories on them.

Nope. I get a little envious during holidays because I notice that a lot of other families go big on the celebrations. My family doesn't really celebrate much, so I feel like I kind of miss out on all the foods that are considered holiday staples. They have holiday desserts at the store, but I know they're not even close to authentic. Something about Entenmann's Hot Cross Buns for Easter doesn't seem all that appealing to me.

"Children aged 10-14 will indulge in an average of more than two-and-a-half kilograms of chocolate over the Easter holiday - taking in nearly 13,000 calories and 650 grams of fat, a survey revealed today."



2.5 kilos of chocolate...... Is it really necessary??

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/children-to-gorge-on-13-easter-eggs-each-1933587.html

CollieFit wrote: »

"Children aged 10-14 will indulge in an average of more than two-and-a-half kilograms of chocolate over the Easter holiday - taking in nearly 13,000 calories and 650 grams of fat, a survey revealed today."



2.5 kilos of chocolate...... Is it really necessary??

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/children-to-gorge-on-13-easter-eggs-each-1933587.html

Holy crap, that's a lot of extra calories.

As for me, I'm going to pass on sweets entirely this year. I just finished overdoing it at a family birthday. And between losing weight slowly the way I do, and my binging tendencies, it can take me 4 weeks to take off weight I put on in two days.

jemhh wrote: »

CollieFit wrote: »

"Children aged 10-14 will indulge in an average of more than two-and-a-half kilograms of chocolate over the Easter holiday - taking in nearly 13,000 calories and 650 grams of fat, a survey revealed today."



2.5 kilos of chocolate...... Is it really necessary??

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/children-to-gorge-on-13-easter-eggs-each-1933587.html

Eh, not my daughter. She's like Charlie Bucket the way she nibbles on a piece of chocolate, stores it away for a few days, nibbles it again, lather/rinse/repeat until 3 weeks later she finally finishes it off. It's great because she's really good at self-regulating, but it still fascinates me.

Same with my daughter. She is home from college for the weekend and will take all of her candy back with her, where I'm sure it'll be devoured by her friends.

It might be challenging to stay within a persons daily calorie deficit if they haven't planned ahead.

With any holiday or special event, I try to bank cals during the days leading up to the event. I should have about 500 extra calories going into Easter Sunday. I also try to fit in a workout that day to make sure I have a few extra, and I'm in maintenance now but when I was losing I always just looked at holidays at a day to eat at maintenance. Even if I went over, it was likely still maintenance for the week.

Edited to add: I also prioritize the foods I really want to eat at family events rather than filling up my plate with every item available. At Easter that will be prosciutto wrapped shrimp, ham, spinach salad, and corn.

Things I will pass on: deviled eggs, the sandwich fixings for the ham, green bean casserole and pasta con broccoli.

We celebrate kid birthdays from late winter and spring at Easter so the desserts are usually whatever they pick but store bought things like cookie cake, ice cream cake, etc. that stuff isn't worth the calories to me so I will probably have wine and Easter candy.

It would be nearly impossible for me to try and figure out how many calories I will be consuming tomorrow. I have had many holidays, vacations and events since I started losing weight where I didn't care about calories and I still have been very successful, so I don't really care. Holidays around here are really for my kids, so that's what I focus on.

Let's see. A table full of deserts and snacks tomorrow afternoon at the family gathering. I can guarantee there won't be anything low calorie on the table. There is usually so much snacking in the afternoon that we don't even bother with dinner. I try to limit but there is no way to stay under on a day like that.

Yes but I don't care because I reached my goal, and I have to indulge sometimes. Besides, come Monday I will be back to my 1330 cal per day.

I just eat reasonably during holiday dinners. For example, during Thanksgiving I may have mashed potatoes but I won't have any stuffing. Or I may skip the dinner roll in lieu something else that I want even more.

When I did WW the woman who ran the meetings would always say that if you're going out to dinner at a restaurant or someone's house to "pick your poison." If you're goin to have an appetizer, have it. But don't get the bread that comes to the table as well. Or maybe skip the appetizer and bread and have dessert instead. I don't feel deprived when I plan my meals out like this. I still get to enjoy the things my family makes and I feel better about my choices overall.

We're having some ham, roasted potatoes, and veg...pretty much a typical meal (protein, veg, and starch/grain)...so no.

CollieFit wrote: »

"Children aged 10-14 will indulge in an average of more than two-and-a-half kilograms of chocolate over the Easter holiday - taking in nearly 13,000 calories and 650 grams of fat, a survey revealed today."



2.5 kilos of chocolate...... Is it really necessary??

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/children-to-gorge-on-13-easter-eggs-each-1933587.html

I'm getting sick thinking about all that chocolate, especially when those 200g bunnies/eggs are made of sickly-sweet chocolate (if I could find a bunny with at least 85% cocoa chocolate, then I might be in trouble).

I don't think tomorrow's going to be too bad for me. It's going to be lots of ham and lots of veggies (cauliflower rice, asparagus, kale, maybe some steamed baby carrots or mushrooms). My family decided to get some peach-glazed ham, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's not too sweet (this is coming from someone who hates bread, because it's often too sweet... but I then douse my frozen fruit with Splenda).