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Curious: do you track on Thanksgiving (or any holiday)?
pancakerunner
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Personally I do. Obviously I'm less strict, not as exact (usually just general estimates), and I often eat over my goal, but I like tracking on holidays/keeping a record. Just wondering what you guys do?
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I'm most likely going to take photos of what I eat and estimate. I'm allowing myself a little over indulgence. I'm going to bank some calories this coming week and still work out. My Thanksgiving is the whole weekend at my sisters. Back to business as usual on Monday. This will be the 1st time I am not strict on my diet.7
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Log breakfast as usual. Log dinner as usual. Lunch is quick add=probably 1000 calories(quick rough estimate).3
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I’ll make a note of what I’m eating and log it as best I can.3
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I've only recently started tracking and I'm really curious about how people handle this (and eating over at other people's houses / eating out) where they don't cook the food. My sister's birthday is coming up in addition to the topical Thanksgiving and I admit to being somewhat concerned about how I'm going to log them both,2
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Will log breakfast and anything else before we leave our house (thanksgiving at my moms). I won’t be toting my food scale. Like Nighthawk, a picture and/or discreet list to refer to later should suffice.3
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Nope! I actually quit tracking everything all together and haven't logged for 2 months
I am doing intuitive eating. (I eat whole natural foods and avoid added sugar and processed foods.) I am loving the freedom from feeling worried, paranoid, and bad all the time I am finally free from the shackles or worrying about calories and weight¬ 
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When I was actively logging and keeping a deficit (I have been in maintenance for a while), I did not log on Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving, and usually took a few other days off too. I do a lot of the cooking on these holidays, but not all, and in that there's no way to be accurate with dishes others make it just seems kind of pointless. I also had no plan to keep a deficit on those days. Part of why I enjoyed using a food scale is that I don't really like estimating, so this worked better for me.
About halfway into my deficit/logging I also decided that it was a pain to try and log restaurant meals, so I would normally just eat lightly the rest of the day and log 1000 for the restaurant meal (or whatever seemed a reasonable estimate).4 -
cuteangelkitten wrote: »Nope! I actually quit tracking everything all together and haven't logged for 2 months I am doing intuitive eating. (I eat whole natural foods and avoid added sugar and processed foods.) I am loving the freedom from feeling worried, paranoid, and bad all the time I am finally free from the shackles or worrying about calories and weight¬
good for you
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Nope... I actually haven't tracked all month... it's my birthday month and stuff.9
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I'll estimate what I eat at Thanksgiving dinner and carefully track the other meals while I'm at my parents'. I didn't log the entire week of T'giving last year, and it didn't go so well. I need that accountability.8
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I started tracking this year in July. I did not track at all during a one week vacation. I do not plan to track on Thanksgiving, our birthdays and anniversary (which is actually all on the same day), and Christmas. I've considered just doing a day estimate of what feels reasonable (1800, 2000, etc).3
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I'm not going to, but I'll log in to keep my logging in streak going 6
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I log, and bank calories ahead of a holiday to a reasonable extent.4
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I log every day the good and the bad because I need the accountability. On foods I'm not sure about I use one that has a higher calorie count just to give myself a cushion. I am planning on exercising somewhere during the day to give me a few extra calories. Most of all I am going to enjoy the day and start fresh the next day! I hope everyone has a great holiday!!5
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Last year I did. 3191 calories lol. (Really not that impressive, could have been a lot more)5
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Nope. I don’t even try, too much work and it does not feel worth it at all. I try to make reasonable choices and not go overboard but generally I just don’t worry about calories on Thanksgiving.7
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I don't plan to log over most of Thanksgiving weekend and will also take another break around Christmas. It just isn't practical for me to carry a food scale or measure out my food. That doesn't mean I won't be mindful of food choices and portion sizes or ignore my body's cues. I may see a bounce on the scale, but much of it will likely be gone within a week once I get back to my routine of daily weigh-ins and tracking my calories. I'm in this for the long haul, so taking a little longer to reach my goal is, for me, the less stressful route.4
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Yes, I will. It is at my house, I am making the food. The more challenging for me is the Christmas Eve/Christmas day.
But even for this Thursday I am saving about 100 calories each day for that pie!1 -
I just guesstimate and call it good. Get in a walk also4
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Every day, even if it's just a guess.
I don't have special plans for Thanksgiving, so it will be just another day, except I won't have to go to work. Yay!
When I go on river trips or dive trips, I have created a recipe I put in my diary that I expect comes ~close~ to what I eat, on average. It's just three ingredients -- carbs, fat, and protein. I enter them in the percentage that matches what I set in my goals. For rafting, I estimate 3500 calories (way more than my 1771 goal, but I'm working hard). For diving, it's almost 4500 calories. If I was going to have a feast on Thanksgiving, I would probably make some good guesses and I might even try to log all the delicious foods I ate, or I'd do the SCUBA rations at a minimum.
burp.
I even make estimates on a routine basis when I get food from the hot bar at our local coop. I don't trust that my guesses at similar items in the database would be more accurate.
Every day!
Log or not; enjoy the holiday if you can. I'll see you here after dessert 3 -
IIRC, I rough-estimated Thanksgiving and maybe some of the other holidays during the year I was losing (holidays came as I was pretty near goal), but didn't particularly restrain myself.
I don't think I've estimated a holiday meal since, and - now in year 4 of maintenance - I don't mostly even bother trying to estimate days that are extremely hard to estimate, holidays or otherwise. I log most of the time, and those rare way-over days tend to work themselves out. I log most of the time, including straightforward but over-goal days.
At this point, I've eaten/estimated enough blow-out days that I've figured out that I usually top out at 5000-6000 calories anyway (I'm a good eater for a li'l ol' lady
), and that the eventual scale impact will typically be a little less than the pound-ish or so actual fat gain I'd expect from that, after all the water weight and digestive contents work their way out of the picture. 6 -
Nope, just enjoying myself on Turkey day!3
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For me, accurate tracking and consistent logging are necessary to my weight maintenance, made easier by the fact that I almost always prepare my own food. This Thanksgiving is going to be a rare away-from-home full-on food bacchanalia which I'll log using one of those generic "Thanksgiving feast" entries.1
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Christmas day and my birthday are not logged.. 😁2
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Try to log everything, but don’t worry too much about accuracy. Christmas Eve is the exception. We have hor’dourves as our meal, and anything goes. I look forward to this meal all year.3
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Yes, I always track. I just estimate though because I am in maintenance so I don't really care how accurate I am as long as I maintain long term right now.
I've never been one to stuff myself or go overboard on thanksgiving because I am not really a fan of most thanksgiving food. I just like the turkey, veggies, and a slice of homemade pie. (Christmas is a different story as I LOVE cookies, lol)1 -
I’ve logged in years past and it’s always about the same for me on holidays a total of 4000-5000 calories for the day. I track monthly at this point so even with tbat I’m still at a deficit for the month. I do a quick add of 5000 now and don’t worry about it. Instead for me I make it a goal to go right back to normal the following day and not let one day turn into the weekend and then eventually the whole season. I indulge on the actual holidays and keep to my limits otherwise.6
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No, I don't log on Thanksgiving or any other holidays, specially if I am eating out or not cooking the meals myself. I am in maintenance and I have a pretty good idea on how to control my portions.
I don't eat most of the holiday's food anyway because I don't care for most casseroles or pies, so that saves me calories. I don't binge either because that is not my thing and my stomach doesn't agree with it anyway. I just eat in moderation and I enjoy the food that I like, and the company of family or friends seating at the table.
Estimations are too much work and in my book totally unreliable.1 -
I track on holidays and vacations too 😁1
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I log it all...of course the dinner, etc., with others are estimates...I'm not going to weigh out everything I eat during dinner lol
I'm just curious of the carnage that took place😆2
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