Thanksgiving calorie goal?

Nontraditional family, made a produce-filled Spiced mole-ish soup-type instapot situation.
Perfect for a chilly day spent walking hills
I don’t like ‘chasing’ big meals anymore. I used to work out till I was blue to ‘burn off’ meals that sorta left me feeling awful anyway.
Now I’m the resident weirdo food wise in every way but I no longer feel like I need to pre-dig a hole or spend a few days unburying myself and stay pretty even.
Was just more work, for me, to either get ahead of or chase food occasions.
But I’d probably behave differently if I had a traditional family situation that involved sharing in big collaborative meals. Then I might take the hit to get to ‘try’ stuff.

Skipped breakfast because of time constraints (had to get on the road). Well, I did make 3 cups of black coffee to take on the drive.

Lunch was assorted appetizers and about 8 oz. of beer, for about 650 calories.

Dinner was traditional turkey and sides. I had fairly small servings of just about everything, and no seconds, plus a little wine and a small slice of pumpkin pie, for around 1450 calories.

Had a 100-calorie bag of microwave popcorn in the evening, because I was hungry.

Finished the day just a smidge below maintenance, which is I think the lowest-calorie Thanksgiving I've had in the six years since I started logging on MFP. But I tasted everything I wanted and enjoyed everything I ate.

ellie117 wrote: »

I cannot even fathom what 7,000 calories in food looks like! If that fits your goals, that's great. But my deficit/maintenance are both under 2000 so I hope to stick to ~2k tomorrow by fasting until dinner at 4pm.

Surprisingly little volume-wise if it is calorically dense.