Curious: do you track on Thanksgiving (or any holiday)?

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.

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.

I always log. In certain situations like holidays and vacations I am not trying to log accurately I am just trying to ballpark it. If you wonder why you should bother consider that any guess you make has a much better chance of being accurate than logging nothing which will be 100 percent wrong.

This is one of those times I try to find a database entry that is more generic but based on something. I will use:

wegman's - thanksgiving dinner meal

I will log 2.5 servings of it and go higher if I think it is necessary. I do not eat dessert so I think that will be a good number for me.

I do. Tracking and having a plan helps me to stay in control.

On holidays, big dinners or special events I usually eat something small early in the day and save the majority of my calories for that big meal.

Between that, banking calories during the week and getting in a good cardio workout the day of, I end up having a good amount of calories to play with for that meal.

I still enjoy whatever I want to eat, but I don't overdo it.

Sometimes I go over and that's okay and I don't stress out about it.