Thanksgiving Damage Report *POST NUMBERS HERE*

Well I have been calorie counting for 5 months and have never had a day I out ate my burn meter, in total ive lost 50lbs and counting. Not today though! Im not too worried about its thanksgiving i definitly wish i could have had more self control but I ate like the old days -.-. I even woke up and did a double cardio work out session but 5k calories is hard to overcome. I promised myself i would be strong but once the table was set all that went out the window Here is my damage report! GRAND TOTAL atleast 5,200 calories consumed!

Fat - 34.7% (204 grams)
Protein - 11.8% (156 grams)
Carbohydrates - 53.5% (707 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 11,836 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 277 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 439 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 76 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 36 grams
Nutrition Grade B-

on protein B- 30 120 Dates, Domestic, Natural And Dry A 84 237 Milk, Reduced Fat, Fluid, 2% Milkfat - With Added Vitamin A A- 244 122 Milk, Lowfat, Fluid, 1% Milkfat - With Added Nonfat Milk Solids And Vitamin A A- 123 53 Pie, Lemon Meringue, Commercially Prepared C 42 113   Dinner Green Bean Casserole C 340 380 Potatoes, Mashed, Home-prepared, Whole Milk And Margarine Added B 210 237 Candied Yams - Canned C+ 266 420 Turkey Breast Meat A- 227 236 Corn, Sweet, Yellow A 154 132 Kraft, Stove Top Stuffing Mix Chicken Flavor B- 170 648 Gravy, Turkey, Canned B- 85 43 Pie, Pumpkin, Prepared From Recipe B- 28 57 Pie, Chocolate Creme, Commercially Prepared C- 113 344 Pie, Banana Cream, Prepared From Recipe C 142 382 Pie, Blueberry, Prepared From Recipe C 85 208 Whipped Cream Dessert Topping 46 Egg Nog Original C 125 170 Pillsbury Grands Buttermilk Biscuits, Refrigerated Dough D- 183 580 LAND O LAKES Salted Butter 42 300 Salad Dressing, Kraft Ranch Dressing C- 29 148 Sweet & Salty Peanut C- 35 170   Snacks Cranberry Sauce - Canned, Sweetened B- 43 65 Total Calories Consumed 5,211

Dinner is so hard to estimate, since I didn't cook.  I think I went about 1,000 calories higher than I planned.  That's ok, I can work that off in the rest of the 3 day weekend.

Fat - 27.0% (86 grams)
Protein - 13.7% (98 grams)
Carbohydrates - 47.1% (337 grams)
Alcohol - 12.2% (50 grams)
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 3,406 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 143 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 185 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 29 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 33 grams

Sorry to sound self righteous, I honestly do not know or care.  All I know is that I tried to eat well, according to Food Pyramid.  I do know that with the "extra fats/sugars" I went well over that.  Since I am not dieting and mainatining, as well as looking at the grand scheme of things,  this one day of feasting in thanks with family and good friends is "priceless" in terms of calories.  Hope you all enjoyed and were Thankful for having this one day to be thankful.

My CC was just a guestimate i didnt hav the luxury of weighing my food like i usually do. I just cant not count my calories even if i know im going to be demolishing my average. Honestly I use it as motivation to get bigger deficits for the next week and work out that much harder.

I actually did very well, but I made most of the food so it was low fat and healthy. I ate less than 1400 calories.

I knew I was going to have a WHOOPER of a meal so I did not even bother logging any food yesterday! Plus, the portion sizes, etc would have been off because I am not going to whip out my measuring cups & scales in front of my family to make sure I eat an alloted amount of calories... but if I had to guess... I probably ate around... 1000/1200 calories... I had about 7 slices of turkey breast, lots of garlic/olive oil roasted brussels sprouts, steamed leeks, green beans & asparagus, baked spaghetti squash (plain), cabbage salad with olive oil dressing, baked onions & I sort of went over board on the roasted chestnuts... All I really know for sure though is that I was HURTING big time last night when I went to bed and this morning when I was working out - but the meal sort of gave me energy to tackle my elliptical trainer! ha ha! 

Actually, Thanksgiving wasn't too bad because I cooked everything myself.  MAN, I never realized what a difference that makes.  My delicious pumpkin pie had less than 100 cals a slice...Imagine if I was eating my aunt's famous pie...probably more like 400 cals/slice!  Anyway,  I'm maintaining and I went over by less than 100 cals on Thanksgiving...so that's something I'm thankful for...

However, I'm still having a battle of wits with the leftovers from the much less healthy Thanksgiving feast I had last Monday.  On Monday I went over by 600, by 200 on both Tuesday and Wednesday...so I was WAY in trouble by the time I even got to Thanksgiving.  I just CAN'T make myself throw out the delicious kalamata olive bread that's 250 cals/slice!  AUGH!

2,873 Thanksgiving day and 2,784 today! That's the most I've eaten in a while and I had to call a friend several times to be OK with overeating on holiday weekend. I'm hoping this weekend, I can be healthy, exercise more, and not worry.

3,278 calories.  I was a little shocked, but judging from other numbers, Thanksgiving makes breaking 3,000 very easy to do.  But the thing that really got me was when I added up all the things I could've not eaten and still enjoyed a great meal--1200 calories.  Just saying no to pecan pie that evening could have saved me 500!  I feel better prepared to handle other holiday dinners, though.  Awareness is a wonderful thing.

• Ate normal bfast
• Did a 90 min spin class at 7:30-9am.
• Had normal snack
• Brunch was wrongly calculated (thought it was 413 for 3 pancakes; turned out to be actually 339 per pancake... I had 3)
• Dinner I held back a lot; but still managed to eat 3 dinner rolls
• Took in 2445 all by the end of the day
• Expendature was 2580, so I still had a small deficit
• Thanksgiving AM I weighed in at 136.8
• Yesterday I weighed in at 138.0 (salt water gain, and eating only 4 meals I suppose... normally I would eat 6-10 meals)
• Yesterday watched what I ate; then it was my anniversary so I ended up having 2 drinks, a small cookie, and a handful of popcorn (still creating 500 cal deficit tho)
• Today: weighed in at 134.8. WEIRD!

malynda I went down a few pounds too!!!  sooo weird!!   I didn't want to say anything until someone else did!  It's that thing where you eat a big meal and it revs up the metabolism...thus can create a loss  of weight!  It did this for me on Thanksgiving Day and for the first time ever I lost after eating a very huge calorie amount.  Wow and thanks  "CC"!  I have been down on myself because I have been at this since July 23rd with little to no results and bam here we go finally!

I'm thinking I had a 2500 day.  And then a 2200 day after.  But I walked it all off black Friday shopping on top of my regular daily exercise ;)

I estimated about a 2500 day but with my workout I burned about the same so I consider it a maintenance day.

oh boy i dont log calories but i dont even want to know how much i ate.... i did glance at the piece of cheese cake i had though, it was 25g fat and nearly 400 calories for the slice! was good though.

I have no idea but for me the killer was the alcohol.  I drank wine with my brother pretty much all day... on top of terrible food.  :(  

• White meat turkey
• Homemade classic bread stuffing (Ezekiel sprouted bread)
• Baby greens with dried cranberries, pecans, and feta salad
• Mashed garlic-buttermilk sweet potatoes
• Steamed broccoli

Meal total was 500, daily total was 2,700 - but I'm gaining.

For me it was more than one day....2 weeks off and on overeating and undercounting.  The worst individual day was 3500 calories.  The worst offender food was cookies.  The meals were pretty normal, but all the other goodies piled on top.

Net damage was 3 stubborn pounds gained, which are not dropping back off easily despite normal eating and exercise.  It'll take 2 weeks probably.  And then the routine starts all over again...