POLL: Are you logging Thanksgiving Day?

Yes and probably will be pre- logging some of it.

I think if I fill up on turkey and limit casseroles, potatoes, bread and dessert I'll be good.

I'll work out tomorrow morning and give myself some wiggle room. It doesn't take much for me to fall off the wagon so I HAVE to be consistent. Maybe next year I won't care as much when I've lost the weight, but for now I have to stay on track.

I am not logging! I am going to enjoy all my food. I have been so good about staying under or right at my calorie goal everyday and now I am going to enjoy every calorie in my favorite dish.....lots of mashed potatoes!:laugh:

Yes - if only to be hugely impressed by the sheer variety of dishes we're cooking - and most of them (with one exception; the mashed potatoes and gravy) are ridiculously healthy. I get plenty of casseroles at work dinners and I'd rather be able to eat small portions of different yummy leftovers throughout the day than blowing it in one meal and making myself feel awful.

Also I'm working out in the morning but it's because I have the time to do it without feeling rushed and I want to use it wisely, plus it makes me feel fabulous. Which is always a good way to start out the day

I think that if I don't log, I will eat 3000-3500 calories, easy.

What I have done is anticipate what I will be eating and have already added it to my Thursday diary (Open if anyone wants to see - Though I am a flexitarian, so there is no turkey added), in addition to eating about 100 cals less the past three days and running a 5k the morning of.

I am planning to eat about 2500 calories (500 over maintenance) but with my morning run, and this weeks efforts, I am hoping to still have a good weekly deficit.

I am going to log everything. But like someone said before, everything is made different, with different recipes, so it's gonna be hard to be accurate. But for those of you who don't plan on logging, if you're like me and have many places to go tomorrow, my advice would be eat smaller portions. Don't cheat yourself of your hard work. Log it if you can. Eat what you want, but don't eat so much that you're having to undo your pants at the end of the day lol.

i'll be logging what I can, but I'm not going to stress out over it.

Yes, I'm logging. I spent years, decades even, lying to myself about how much I was eating, thinking my clothes were shrinking and then getting depressed about having to buy larger sizes. When I started MFP, I swore to give up lying. If I eat it, I log it, to the best of my ability. I've logged through Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover, vacations, you name it. I even go back and add an item to days past if I remember I forgot something. After two years, I'm pretty good at guessing how many calories there are in something. If I think it's a lot, I keep my portion sizes down but I don't deny myself anything!

I don't log to count the calories so much as to track how much food I'm eating so that I don't eat too much.

I've learned that thinking about how much I'm eating ("Is this a cup or half a cup?") makes me enjoy eating food more. If I want a piece of pie, I have a piece of pie but I don't gulp it down so I can have a second. I savor it, eat it slowly, really try to taste it. I like having seconds so I keep my first portion sizes small so I can have a second helping of another small portion. And if I really, really want a third - I have it but I wait a bit and then keep it to just a bite or two.

Enjoying eating good food doesn't mean mindlessly shoveling food in my mouth. I had to give up the shoveling so now I do the savoring.

Nope gonna listen to my body!

But that don't mean I am going to gorge myself. I will eat as much turkey and veggies as I want, and moderation everything else.

The only food groups that will dominate will be the turkey.

I then want to sleep for two days and reap the high protein recovery.

Not logging. I'm contributing some of the dishes, but I'm not going to attempt to figure out what other people made and measure out what I am eating. It's not like I'm going to stuff myself. I'll eat nice plate of what I like and not worry about it. I know I'll be over my calories but I see no harm in that.

Yep, but quick add only. I'll burn it off Black Friday shopping

I don't think so but we shall see

I will log everything and will try to keep it as close to my allotted calories as possible... if I can't eh, then oh well. At least I will know exactly where I stand at the end of the day.....

I ended up logging. I'm definitely over, but I'm fine with that.

Well, I did an extra thousand calories damage today, and I am way too sleepy to work it off. All in all, a big breakfast helped with not pigging out at the table. I even refused the drumstick I was offered and stuck to a slice of turkey breast, a sliver of ham, two bites of mashed potatoes, and two bites of mac and cheese, plus half a can of soda. Then I fell victim to the cheesecake, but it wasn't as many calories as I thought it was.

I would have stayed around 1200 if I hadn't eaten after midnight last night and logged it on to today's. Which I regret, because then I bet I wouldn't have been thinking about the food diary and I would have eaten more tasty turkey!

I am logging today. In fact I just talked about an hour (round trip) to get some vanilla ice cream to accompany my pie. I definitely ate my exercise calories (and more) today!