what you guys doing about xmas?

I am going to enjoy family time, be aware of what I am eating, and get in some dance, walk or other exercise. I don't believe in totally giving something up, just make wiser choices. As a previous poster said, 2 instead of 6. I can do this! A little cheat day never hurt me occasionally!

Enjoy yourselves!

I'll be careful with what I eat and I am planning on going on lots of walks, but other than that? No - I will enjoy christmas

My mum's making my favourite lasagne, and I plan on eating it and enjoying it.

I've rough estimated what I usually eat for christmas lunch, and it totals around 700 calories all up for the meal. Which, realistically isn't too bad, and leaves me with 700 more for the rest of the day. We don't usually have many sweets, for dessert my mother usually chops up a nice fruit salad (bless her) and serves it with ice cream. Only this time, we'll have low fat ice cream that's only 70 calories a scoop

So approximately 700 + 140 = 840 and I still have room for 600 more calories for maintenance. AND if I go for a run in the morning I'll have around 900 left over, that means I can fill in a nice breakfast and have some left overs for dinner! (Or maybe two slices of lasagne, since it's become so rare in our household as of late).

To answer your question, I've already over-thought christmas and may as well log it from now X)

No, x-mas day will be a total food orgy.
If I can keep things under 10,000 calories, I consider it a good effort.....lol

What's hard to when to stop, and I do this 4 times every year in addition to a weekly free day.

I've lost 64 lbs, and all people see are me on free day or binge at holidays, so they think I am some kind of super human.
They don't see what my food dairy and exercise logs reflect. I just keep those cards close unless I know somebody is serious.

They all think I must have found the right pill or powder - not a 2 hour workout each day.

Nobody wants to hear that...lol

everything in moderation for me this year... previous years have involved being so full i havent enjoyed the day and felt guilty, so im actually looking forward to saying no and feeling proud of myself... i will be having a few baileys however and a pick at the cheese board tho, and as someone already said, it would be anti-social to log just xmas day tho, the rest as normal!

have a good one xxx

What worked well for me on Thanksgiving and our family Christmas was to figure out with the menu ahead of time what to have. I entered in the food, and amount and total to give myself a good idea of how much I could have of the foods I liked, then stuck with it. This was successful.

I am leaving tomorrow to spend the holidays with my sister. I changed my calorie goal to only lose a half a pound a week because I know my sister and I will have a few nights with wine in the hot tub. I will walk everyday and still track what I eat, but will enjoy myself the days surrounding Christmas and try not to worry about going over my calories. I will go back to a pound a week after New Years and plan on starting the 30 day shred. Christmas is a time to enjoy yourself and I see nothing wrong with giving yourself a few treats....just don't go overboard (and if you do don't stress, just get back with the program the next day)

Enjoy your holidays everyone!

No, x-mas day will be a total food orgy.
If I can keep things under 10,000 calories, I consider it a good effort.....lol

Exactly my thoughts! One day, balls to the wall!!!

I am being careful about the portions of sweet things I eat and making sure to log the calories. I feel like telling myself "no" is negative, but I feel really fantastic if I have a half portion of a sweetie and have enough will power to have that be enough. This is really challenging right now at work because all of our clients are giving us sweet things as presents, as I type this there is a mountain of calorie laden delicious things behind me. My goal for the day is to make it until close and then reward myself right before I go home, IF I really need to, maybe I won't even want anything.
Right now I have my house stocked completely full of already cut up veggies and fruits with no other tempting snack foods like chips, cookies or pop corn, so when I come home from a holiday party a little intoxicated I'll snack on healthy things instead of wolfing down carbs. This plan worked wonders last night.
Christmas day I plan on doing the same thing I did for Thanksgiving and going ahead and logging how much food I can eat the day before. I stuck to this really well on Thanksgiving, and all you have to do is remember to log the "bad" foods but still have then fit into your day.

I dont celebrate it so its just another day to me. Thank goodness!! I cant handle big parties without glutenting myself.....

I've been over eating all week, ya know... For practice.

I heard that you can choose to either snack on hors d'oeuvres or have dessert, but you shouldn't do both. Granted, this is a blanket guideline. I'm planning to fill up on veggies, but not deny myself tasty stuff at meals. Helloooo rack of lamb! I'll skip dessert. OR, have some, but only if I can conceive of it being the absolute best cookie/piece of pie or cake/egg nog/etc. in the whole entire world.

I'm also going to try to not eat if I'm drinking, because that's just a horrible recipe for a bloaty hangover.

I've been over eating all week, ya know... For practice.

hahaha I love this!

I plan to log, exercise, and stay within my allotted calories every day except Christmas Day. On Christmas Day, I may or may not get in some exercise. I'll just kind of play it by ear and see if I feel like it. No logging though, and I plan to eat whatever and as much as I want. On December 26, it's back to business as usual.