All Things in Moderation - holiday eating

[luvtorun]

Good morning fitness folks...

Well today I start baking. If see a plea for help from me during the day, just jump in there with a word of wisdom!!!!

I am on a calorie deficit day today but help my calories to the low end, a little over 1,400, so I can have a sampling of some of things I'm going to make. I don't know if my w/o will happen today since this is going to take me all day. MIL is coming up to help and spend some time with us. DS and DIL are coming up this afternoon/evening for dinner. I have a full day ahead but I'm excited.

I picked up the cowboy cookies and peanut brittle last night and ate only one cowboy cookies (YAY - and the crowd goes wild!!) and one small piece of peanut brittle. Oh I hope that is an omen!!

Have a fabulous semi-clean and enjoyable Saturday before Christmas friends!!

 

[JAFitMama]

Jane-
It looks like you are being very realistic! I enjoyed my day yesterday with dinner out and great food/wine and freinds.

Today will be a party at our home for out son's team and their families. It will be simple and casual, but I will make a *huge* tossed green salad to go with Pizza and wings. Wings are not big deal to me, but I enjoy pizza. I'll just keep it to one or two pieces. And one cookie later in the night. Plus, I'll just sip on seltzer tonight instead of beer or wine.


Hey friends- Lets aim for a low stress holiday season. Stress can lead us to poor choices all around. Whatever we need to do to 'decompress' can really help us in the long run!!! for me checking these boards is helpful! so is my daily workout, and NOT trying to have the perfect holiday.

PS Becky- you made a great choice to not snack through your TV viewing!


Judy "Likes2bfit"

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[Miss Lee]

Okay, I've been avoiding this thread but I really need to get on board. This time of year is such a struggle for me. I tend towards a little depression anyway but i try not to wallow in it.

I made a pot of lentil soup the other day and I'll be living on it all weekend. I was inspired by the lentil soup thread that someone started a few days ago. All the recipes looked so good that I kind of combined them and the results were fantastic!!

I've had a few treats but not many considering

Michele

 

[honeybunch1]

I'm very lucky that I have no holiday parties to go to - just a birthday dinner today for my father, so it will be a normal pig-out Saturday. This coming week I'm going to be eating normally but trying to get in some serious cardio because I'll have Xmas pig-outs on Sunday and Monday (thus skipping next Saturday for the normal PO day). I'm off work from 12/22-1/3, so there's LOTS of time for exercise.

I don't bake either, so that's good. Not many holiday temptations here!
Just Do It!

 

[luvtorun]

Okay, I think I'm safe!!! I really didn't feel the need to eat 2 dozen cookies which is good, I'm not PMSing. Also I kept thinking of that pair of Express Editor pants in my closet I just got back into, size 8. For those of you who know the Editor pant, you know they are not very forgiving. You either fit into them or you don't, they don't give.

Anyway, I ate a bite of one of the fudgy mint cookies I made, DH ate the rest of the cookie. I had one whole Rolo-filled chocolate cookie. OMG these are sinful!! But so good. I broke down the calories and they are 128 calories apiece, so one is pretty much the limit on that those..

I made buckeyes and haystacks and didn't eat any of those. I still have to make my coconut snowball, apricot crescents, potato candy, Peanut butter filled Ritz crackers dipped in white chocolate, and I found a recipe for some sherry drop cookies that sounds good. I'll start back in on baking tomorrow.

Garlic shrimp stirfry w/ basmati rice is on the menus tonight with a salad and the rest of my day has been clean except for the one cookie and one bite of another cookie.

So far no disasters!!

 

[exercise forever]

Okay ladies, I have already hit rock bottom with my eating and this holiday is becoming rediculous! I get this big box of cookies at work along with a box of chocolate covered cherrys. What the heck am I supposed to do with all of that? That is so tempting when I haven't cleaned up before these holiday treats. It is going to be crazy for me to resist those treats!


Please give some suggestions on what I should do!

Jane you are doing well girl!;-)


kim

 

[bceogirl]

Kim,

SHARE them with a friend or put them in the freezer!!!
I'd say toss them, but really I wouldn't do that, so I won't tell you to.;-)

For me too, I have to find something to do to keep me busy because mostly when I eat snacks/ junk food, I'm really not hungry, I'm bored. I am terrible about eating when I sit down in the evening to watch tv. Just a bad habit !

You're trying and you have to give yourself credit for that!!
This is just a really hard time of the year to resist food!!

Hang in there. We're all in this together. ;-)

 

[luvtorun]

Hey Kim, Becky...

Kim, what Becky said, share them with a friend, neighbor. If they are in their boxes and are sealed, give them away as gifts!!!

I can't really tell you how to do it Kim, because I haven't got it figured out all the time. I'm doing amazingly well right now, right on track with everything but just a little over a month ago the 13th of November I got back from a week long vacation and ate the city of Oklahoma City!! I have really paid for it. It has taken me until now to get it off and I intend to keep it off.

All I can tell you is take one day at a time, one meal at a time, resist temptation because it's always going to be there, you can avoid that, you have to be strong and keep in mind that you are going to slip sometimes, we aren't machines. Try to keep your slips as small and far between as possible and ask yourself, "do I REALLY want that"? Keep up you workouts, ride your bicycle for cardio and do your weights but do them consistently. After you get one day of clean eating behind you, things seem to just fall into place, but you have to start somewhere and that first step, that first workout, that first resistance of temptation can be very difficult. Believe me I speak from lots of experience.

One thing I have been doing is putting on a pair of Express Editor pants I have that I have to be in tip top shape to wear. They are very form fitting and tailored. I put on those pants the day I got home from Oklahoma City and could have cried. I couldn't even get them to come together to button. I have put those pants on every week since I've been back and they finally fit this week. That has been my motivation. You need to find yours. Find a pair of pants you really love that maybe don't fit as well now, even if you can't get them buttoned, then start. Stay on your plan and think about those pants and try them on every week. They will fit better and better if you stick with your plan and will be a motivational tool for you.

This is best advice I can give, this is what has worked for me. Remember we all struggle with this Kim, you are not unique. Read any thread and you'll usually find someone struggling with their workouts, eating, lack of motivation, on and on. We all deal with it. You have to take control to some extent though and not let it control you. We all go through periods where it does control us for a time but we crawl back out the hole and pull ourselves up. It is a cycle, like most things in life are.

Good luck Kim. You can do this. You just need to find the strength to start. That is the hard part, starting. Once you start, it'll get easier.

Lots of luck and love... we're here with you girl