Recovering from Thanksgiving
AlyssaP1987
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What are you doing to recover from the carb fest this week? I was thinking fasting or detox Friday. Ideas?
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I don’t really plan on doing anything different for after thanksgiving. I’ll limit myself to one plate of food, fill up on the veggies, and treat myself to just one slice of pie. I’ll call it my cheat day and just go back to my regular diet the day after. 😂😂7
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I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.
Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.10 -
Use that dreaded word called moderation14
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Nothing really to recover from 🤷 I'll eat a bit (ok, maybe a lot) more than usual and enjoy it. I eat carbs every day. No need to 'fast' or 'detox' from them anyway.
I suppose dragging my Christmas tree out of the attic Friday might burn a few extra calories... Oh who am I kidding? I'll send a kid up after it!
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Your body does not need a "detox" after Thanksgiving or at any other time of the year. Your excretory system removes toxins without any action needed on your part.
Fasting after eating a large meal has the potential to set up a cycle of binging, as we overeat, then get very hungry from not eating, causing us to want to eat another large amount of food. I wouldn't recommend it, and I think that it's a dangerous mindset to get into. Fast for spiritual or medical reasons, or follow an IF plan if you prefer to eat that way, but don't fast as a "makeup" for eating a holiday meal.
Just enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner and then go back to your normal routine.17 -
I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo14
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Your body does not need a "detox" after Thanksgiving or at any other time of the year. Your excretory system removes toxins without any action needed on your part.
Fasting after eating a large meal has the potential to set up a cycle of binging, as we overeat, then get very hungry from not eating, causing us to want to eat another large amount of food. I wouldn't recommend it, and I think that it's a dangerous mindset to get into. Fast for spiritual or medical reasons, or follow an IF plan if you prefer to eat that way, but don't fast as a "makeup" for eating a holiday meal.
Just enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner and then go back to your normal routine.
This^
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pinggolfer96 wrote: »I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo
I have been on keto for 6 months. Don't necessarily consider it a bad mindset. Just asking questions. Relax ♡21 -
I don’t think he was trying to instigate anything. We’re all good here.2
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Our Thanksgiving was last month. But I just went back to normal after, which is what I do after every weekend. If anything my regular weekends are more a carb fest than Thanksgiving was.2
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I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.
Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.
This.
It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.
Turkey -- mostly protein.
Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.
My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat
My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat
Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat
Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)
Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).
I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.
Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.
Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.8 -
It’s aight. We’re all just trying to reach the same goal body-wise, getting and staying healthy. I have tried to fast as a detox in the past, but I ended up bing eating everything as soon as I could. Detox teas I’ve tried just make my tummy hurt. If your body can handle all that that then great! Listen to your body, and everything in moderation has become my mantra for life. 😂😂😂6
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I will eat the same percentage of carbs probably on Thanksgiving as most days (not doing low carb). After Thanksgiving I will just go back to my normal calorie goal and activity.
Detoxing is not a real thing.7 -
pinggolfer96 wrote: »I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo
Totally agree!2 -
You must not be from the south 😂. My mother in laws house is a carb fest of the best mac n cheese, stuffing and rolls a girl could imagine. HahaI sleep in and then go about my day as usual.
Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.
This.
It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.
Turkey -- mostly protein.
Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.
My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat
My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat
Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat
Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)
Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).
I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.
Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.
Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.
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I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.
Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.
This.
It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.
Turkey -- mostly protein.
Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.
My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat
My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat
Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat
Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)
Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).
I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.
Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.
Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.
Can I eat at your house? Cause I'm a diabetic and my family is all about the carbs. We have rolls, cornbread, actual corn, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce, and about four kinds of pie: pumpkin, pecan, chess, and chocolate silk. Apart from the turkey itself, the green beans, and a salad I usually bring but can't this year unless I can find lettuce which isn't romaine, everything is too carby for me to eat safely.3 -
AlyssaP1987 wrote: »What are you doing to recover from the carb fest this week? I was thinking fasting or detox Friday. Ideas?
I don't detox after, I run and lift weights before, which improves my glucose tolerance. I estimate it would take about a marathon to run off my family's food so I also carefully moderate my carbs even at Thanksgiving.3 -
I expect a couple pounds of water weight mostly from higher sodium. I eat 50% carbs anyway.
Either way, it'll go away when it's supposed to so just normal sailing for me.4 -
Nope, no special recovery. I’m just going to go back to my logging and exercising. I will do a run that morning but every Thursday is a run day for me so that’s not really anything special.2
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Nothing really to recover from 🤷 I'll eat a bit (ok, maybe a lot) more than usual and enjoy it. I eat carbs every day. No need to 'fast' or 'detox' from them anyway.
I suppose dragging my Christmas tree out of the attic Friday might burn a few extra calories... Oh who am I kidding? I'll send a kid up after it!
Right, fortunately carbs are not toxic, so no need for a detox.
I don't have any kids to send up for the decorations
I'm looking forward to hanging the ornaments on the outside tree. It's the crab apple tree outside my office window and is especially loaded with apples this year and the birds are going nuts on it. I put on a Santa hat, listen to Christmas music, and climb up and down the step ladder until I'm done.7 -
AlyssaP1987 wrote: »pinggolfer96 wrote: »I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo
I have been on keto for 6 months. Don't necessarily consider it a bad mindset. Just asking questions. Relax ♡
Umm okay?? I don’t know how much more I can relax. There was no anger or frustration in my post.
I was just trying to give positive perspective...10 -
See-sawing is all that happens when I restrict in answer to eating over calories. My weight stabilizes in the same 2-4 days if I just eat at maintenance.1
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AlyssaP1987 wrote: »pinggolfer96 wrote: »I’m going to enjoy it for what it is....a day out of the year where we celebrate with loved ones and eat good food. No need to fast...bad mindset imo
I have been on keto for 6 months. Don't necessarily consider it a bad mindset. Just asking questions. Relax ♡
So don't eat the carbs. Isn't there turkey and gravy on the table?
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There's nothing you can do after you eat the carbs to make it magically be as though you didn't eat the carbs. If being in ketosis is more important to you than eating the foods everyone else is eating (the mac-n-cheese, stuffing, and rolls), stick to the turkey, gravy, and any non-starchy vegetables, if there are any on the table. Or bring a non-starchy side yourself.
If eating the foods everybody else is eating is more important to you than staying in ketosis, eat them, and accept the fact that you'll just have to wait for sufficient time to pass to get back to ketosis after you return to your low carb way of eating. There's no fast or detox that will speed up the process in any meaningful way (OK, if you go to zero carbs on a fast, it might knock a little time off compared to having 20 g of carbs or whatever you normally do, but that's pointless -- you could go to zero carbs and still eat protein and fat with the same result).3 -
AlyssaP1987 wrote: »You must not be from the south 😂. My mother in laws house is a carb fest of the best mac n cheese, stuffing and rolls a girl could imagine. HahaI sleep in and then go about my day as usual.
Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.
This.
It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.
Turkey -- mostly protein.
Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.
My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat
My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat
Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat
Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)
Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).
I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.
Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.
Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.
Heh, true, definitely not the south, I'm a midwesterner. Mac and cheese is as much fat as carbs (no, we don't normally have that, although at one time my sister's SO-in-law ran a soul restaurant and so we did, it was excellent and I miss it, love homemade mac & cheese). Rolls, like I said, I don't eat, not worth the calories to me, and I've always been a potatoes, not stuffing girl, but the stuffings I've made had sausage and again were as high in fat as carbs.
Bread bores me, which is probably why I don't fill up on anything bread-like. The exceptions are higher fat -- cornbread, naan -- but we don't have those on Thanksgiving. I do like rolls with butter but I decided to choose between those and potatoes when I started watching what I ate and potatoes (easily) won.0 -
rheddmobile wrote: »I sleep in and then go about my day as usual.
Personally, I don't massively overeat at the holidays. But, even if you do, there is no need to change your routine. Get back onto your regular eating habits and go on with life.
This.
It's interesting that you call it a carbfest, since if anything I see extra fat.
Turkey -- mostly protein.
Mashed potatoes with butter -- yes, a starch, but unless I eat a crazy amount no more than at a normal dinner for me, but with more added fat than usual.
My sister's take on broccoli and cauliflower with cream cheese and parm -- vegetables spruced up with extra fat
My brussels with pancetta -- again, veg that are different due to added fat
Possible "fancy green beans" with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and dill, in garlic and olive oil -- again, added fat
Probably won't do creamed spinach this year, but same. (Although I found a creamed spinach with butternut squash recipe I might decide to try.)
Then. of course, desserts, but those are fat as much as carbs (this is where I'm putting my cranberries this year, in addition to apples and, of course, pumpkin).
I guess stuffing isn't a big thing in my house. I used to do it, but no one cared and I don't have a particularly large gathering these days, so probably won't.
Someone will bring rolls, but I usually don't eat them.
Anyway, I'll have leftovers, but so long as I'm not left with huge amounts of dessert (just enough for Friday breakfast and maybe another serving over the weekend), most of it can be easily made into normal-sized and calorie meals.
Can I eat at your house? Cause I'm a diabetic and my family is all about the carbs. We have rolls, cornbread, actual corn, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce, and about four kinds of pie: pumpkin, pecan, chess, and chocolate silk. Apart from the turkey itself, the green beans, and a salad I usually bring but can't this year unless I can find lettuce which isn't romaine, everything is too carby for me to eat safely.
Sure, c'mon over!1 -
Re salad, see if you can find butter lettuce. For some reason it's all over here right now, and a great romaine replacement (I prefer it).1
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I find it really entertaining to hear from others about what their family makes for Thanksgiving meals. I will include a pic of our carbfest....minus a pie pic
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I'm just wondering if anyone got a concussion/KO'd/slammed by Thanksgiving carbohydrates (lol, re: thread title)...heavy weight world champ0
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What toxins do you think you took in that you need to “detox” from?
Detoxes are bunk and don’t accomplish anything except make your wallet lighter. They’re a diet industry scam.4
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