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Lunch Today 1479 Calories O MY

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  • haha, I thought the same ShakyBabe until I realised it's Thanksgiving over the pond and they're all pigging out to celebrate. I was thinking "Blimey! I had a carton of soup at about 280 calories for lunch at work, what's going on with these people?!" Then the penny dropped, they don't do this every day!
  • questionablemethods
    questionablemethods Posts: 2,174 Member
    Haven't had it yet, but I estimated it to be around 1500 calories, including dessert. But it's the only meal I am eating today. :happy:
  • bunny876
    bunny876 Posts: 40 Member
    Im at 1287 for the day so far. I have been working today so that has kept me from over eating too much. Thank goodness. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
  • bunny876
    bunny876 Posts: 40 Member
    Jeez I thought idea of a diet was to reduce amount of calories you ate a day! I'm surprised so many have said over 1,000 for one meal..that's most of my whole days allowance!

    My breakfast is usually under 300, lunch around same and dinner I don't go over 500. Drinks is about 3 cups of tea and water the rest of day, sometimes I make it over 1200 cals if I have a treat but only on days I exercised too.

    In the US it is Thanksgiving, AKA the day to wear elastic pants and hope you don't pop them.
  • bellawares
    bellawares Posts: 558 Member
    466 including pie!
  • Haven't had it yet - Since I'm doing all the cooking I already have it logged. Grand total of 860 (that's mostly Mashed Potaoes - my favorite food of all time) . I'll have the same dessert I have every night and that's only 105 calories.
  • dlyeates
    dlyeates Posts: 875 Member
    1043....wow!!! I asked my hubby how I was going to eat dinner with only 300 calories and he said I wasn't. Since I started 105 days ago I've only gone over once! But I just found out my MIL is in the hospital and that there is a treadmill in her room and we are staying here....soooo hopping on that tonight since I'm not getting to the gym until tomorrow!!! I might actually not go over!!!
  • donnam40
    donnam40 Posts: 246 Member
    Thank goodness we don't do Thanksgiving in Australia is all I'm going to say - but look out on Christmas Day!
  • bankstisha
    bankstisha Posts: 45 Member
    I'm not sure, but between lunch and dinner I'm around 2,400 calories! Holy moly! I did run this morning to give myself some extra calories, but I was still over by about A LOT! LOL and I don't even care. I was going to take the dog for a walk tonight and work off some more calories, but I pretty much can't move at this point.....and again, I don't care!

    Tomorrow I'm sure looking over my food diary will make me feel sick enough to work out extra hard and get back on track.
  • LOL. Wayyyy toooo much! It was just one day though and I made it to my Thanksgiving goal ahead of time. I'm letting myself off the hook and will get back to it tomorrow. I am now on to my Christmas goal (my end goal!!!). After that, its just maintenance :).
  • seventwenty
    seventwenty Posts: 565 Member
    Up to 2,000 for the day, and that's before evening drinks and dessert. The way I see it, if you can't cheat, why try? But for those of you who actually didn't cheat today, mad props.
  • Ritala1987
    Ritala1987 Posts: 135 Member
    hahahaha...i was wondering why ALL of your lunches were so super high in calories!!...and then i remembered its thanksgiving for you guys!! LOL...hope your all having a great day :)
  • mine was 800, which was all thanks to my grandma's homemade mulberry pie. I ate like a pigeon with the main course and ran a mile and walked the dog 5 miles so i could eat my grandma's pie without guilt. I believe that piece was around 350-400 calories but it was worth every bite. It also helped that im a vegan so i only had veggies, legumes and my vegan ribs.
  • AmyEm3
    AmyEm3 Posts: 784 Member
    My Tday dinner was about 1500 and that included dessert. I controlled myself pretty well during the day and I did a level of Ripped in 30 and ran for an hour outside (lovely day in MN today) before dinner.
  • TheBraveryLover
    TheBraveryLover Posts: 1,217 Member
    I don't really eat "lunch". I have 2 meals a day. My second meal was 900 and something. Close to 1000.
  • pixiesx3
    pixiesx3 Posts: 172 Member
    Just over 1400 with dessert. I did not cook today. We actually went out to eat to Cracker Barrel. They don't provide nutritional information so I looked up similar recipes or whatever to figure it out. I am full but not overly! I walked before we went and I am seriously considering another walk now at 7:15pm! I am over by about 100 calories today. Not bad, really!

    If I would have cooked, we would have had healthier choices but it was good and I did not have to cook or clean up! YAY!
  • Classalete
    Classalete Posts: 464 Member
    I ate over a pound of turkey...I feel stuffed and gluttonous...Yet I only managed to go over by 150 today. The corn destroyed my carb benchmark though. ;[
  • FitForLife81
    FitForLife81 Posts: 372 Member
    I didnt log today but I KNOW it was really high in calories. I actually had a stomach ache when I was done because my body wasnt use to eating so much in one sitting! Back on track tomorrow!!
  • Estimating about 1,300.. and the rest of my day was probably like 2000. :/ good thing I didn't log because knowing the exact number would just depress me. good thing it's only once a year.
  • 430 calories
    I guess that's one good thing about not having a close family and not going back home for Thanksgiving is I can still keep it healthy. But enjoy everybody, one day off your diet won't hurt, it will actually be good for your metabolism.
  • lmelangley
    lmelangley Posts: 1,039 Member
    1024. I heard today that an average Thanksgiving dinner is around 3000 cals, so I think we're doing great!
  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Thank goodness we don't do Thanksgiving in Australia is all I'm going to say - but look out on Christmas Day!

    Ditto.....But I will probably be working Christmas Day so it won't be to bad for me.....
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    1940 cals with 199g of protein. I was trying my hardest to make 2000 & 200g.
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