Thanksgiving Calorie Counting?

Happy Thanksgiving to all you US-based calorie counters.

How many of you are going to count and log your calories today, and how many are going to take a "pass" on the day and eat wisely but without measuring and logging foods? Heck, how many of you are going to take a "pass" on the day and eat like you would have BEFORE calorie counting?

I plan to do the eat wisely thing, my food log for the days says "It is THANKSGIVING don't bother me"

I will NOT beat myself up for eating as long as I am moderatly careful.

I have the same plan for christmas eve (we do that instead of the day) and my birthday on Dec 7th, the rest of the season I am being very careful and probably NOT making fudge this year.

Something in between all of these - I'll know I'll end up logging everything, and I'll stop short of  completely stuffing myself, but I do plan on just eating what I want.  I can't say that's the same as what I would have eaten before calorie counting, because although the meal I'm going to be making isn't exactly low cal, it's going to be healthy anyway.  We're vegetarian so the only "traditional" Thanksgiving dish will be the pumpkin pie.  I'm guessing my day will probably come to about 2600 or so - could be worse.

I had a monster workout today, I'll get a walk in tomorrow morning, we'll be doing brush clearing over the weekend if it doesn't rain too much, which will give me a darn good burn, so I think any "damage" will be well mitigated.

I plan on logging everything, but I wont be plugging the recipes in or using measuring cups.  I'll just estimate things to get a rough idea.  I am going to use this as an oppertunity to see if I can live this diet.  I have everything I plan to eat logged already, so I wont be tempted to eat more b/c I have no idea how many calories I am eatting.  I plan to make this a maintance day.  I'm about to head off to the gym to give me a little wiggle room though!  :D

I too have the same plan for xmas (unless today doesn't go well) and my birthday Jan 6th.

It's one meal - how much difference can it possibly make in the long run? I'm not even going to TRY to log it because we're not eating at home and I'm not making any of the food so I have no idea what's in it. I'm just going to enjoy it. And yes I'm going to eat whatever I want within the bounds of normal moderation (1 piece of pie equals dessert, not the whole thing! lol)

I'm logging everything and eating normally up until dinner, but how much damage can one meal do?

I will say I am not going to count today with every intention not to - but I KNOW myself and I will be cautious not go overboard wit the calories so I may count a little!  But I will not deprive myself of any yummy foods you can bet on that!

Have a great day everyone!!!!

Kristy

Original Post by trinaxxl:

I plan to do the eat wisely thing, my food log for the days says "It is THANKSGIVING don't bother me"

Hahaha mine says almost the same thing. "No food log today;it's Thanksgiving."

I plan ion trying to eat wisely but that cheesecake has been in my fridge for two days now and I don't know how wise I will end up being. :)

I've started logging what I plan to eat today with estimates of amounts.  We're going out for dinner so I'm not going to be completely accurate but I'll try to do a fairly good estimate.  I'm planning to do a workout on the treadmill after the parade is over.  I think an hour should help out with the food I plan to eat this evening...pie included.  I don't think one meal is going to ruin five months of careful dieting.

Original Post by kajikit:

It's one meal - how much difference can it possibly make in the long run?

Good for you. Good for all of you. In the end, it is one meal and will make little to NO difference in the long run. Enjoy yourselves and the yummy food. I couldn't find a whole turkey this year (didn't ask the butcher in time) and am making pizza with the kids. :)

Happy to see there are other crazy people out here this morning!

I plan on doing some rough estimates to make sure I don't go waaaaay out of line, that's all. No counting, but every so often I'll do some quick estimates in my head. After a few years of counting, I'm pretty good at it by now.

But! I plan on giving thanks for the fact that I am so fortunate in this world to be able to have too much food around me. I am grateful today that I have to watch my weight in the first place. I am quite certain that the alternative of not enough to eat would be much more tragic. With that, let's all go enjoy a piece of pie, we're lucky people!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hehe, it is my plan to eat moderately... but I snagged like 4 small pastries after breakfast today, so we'll see how it goes =D

I know it's too late to plan ahead, but this website helped me get a good estimate of what I had eaten!

http://walking.about.com/library/cal/blthanks givingcalories.htm

I planned on counting what I had eaten for Thanksgiving, but once I started to calculate everything on my iPhone I decided it was too much of a pain in the giblets. I did keep a mental image off what I was eating and I believe I did an amazing job.

Considering the kind of person I was at this time last year, I am very proud of myself.

I logged everything up to the dinner, then estimated it at about 3000 calories - insane I know!  But that was probably conservative considering what I ate: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, corn, bread, sparkling apple cider for dinner, and cheesecake, apple pie, milk for dessert.  OK, maybe it wasn't that much - but it sure seemed like it!  I actually only had one plate full, with a little extra stuffing and cranberry sauce and an extra piece of corn after that.  And the cranberry sauce and corn are not that bad.

The fun part was that I weighed myself this morning and was a lower weight than earlier in the week! Not too worried about it anyway, but it was fun to see.  Hope Christmas is this successful!