What steps are you taking to avoid calorie glut this holiday?

What’s this “avoid” you’re talking about?

I’m firmly in the “ignore” camp, at least until this salted caramel milk chocolate pretzel bark is gone.

Also, it would bug me to throw away a cookie, just because I know what it costs to bake them, and I hate wasting money.

Butter is, like, $5 a pound right now. It’s literally more valuable than copper or nickel.

The only steps I’ve taken were literal ones in the Kilpatrick Hills.

I’m trying to exercise more too. I went for a walk with my family for 1.5 hours today. Also leftover vegetables made into soup for dinner but we had a pear tart to eat due to a mistake at the boulangerie today. We wanted a tartlet but got a tart instead. Too British to not buy it once it had been beautifully packaged by the lovely French lady. €10 later…

I made a decision a long time ago to ignore the word diet during the holidays. It puts too much stress on me. So I am moderate, but often the case isn’t the sweets. Its the good foods that only get made on the holidays that do me in.
Candied yams, stuffing, cranberry sauce, casseroles, ham with honey glaze, sweeten potatoes, roasted pig, and then throw in the deserts and you are done. Usually I have little desert because the meals are pretty filling. I
I find going back to your normal eating right after the holiday along with a little exercise will usually put you back where you started before the holiday because your calories are back to normal or maybe even less because you find you are kind of done with rich food for a awhile. I know about the 3rd day after Thanksgiving, I usually want very light foods for a while.
I put on 3 lbs for thanksgiving weekend and by the following weekend I had lost 4 without dieting.
I think stressing out before and after only helps pack on the weight more and adds to fuel guilt eating, and guilt eating is a vicious cycle.

People have to look at food as nourishment and as an occasional pleasure. I’m not saying I have that down, but when I do, I find eating isn’t seen as good or bad and I don’t suffer from stress gain. I know it’s just the calories I chose to put in my mouth.

When I want to lose weight I remind myself that food is first for survival and if I can make something taste good without the added calories, I win and add to my survival by not clogging my arteries. On occasion I toss my health to the wind. But it’s like drinking at a party. Food can sometimes just be for enjoyment. It just doesn’t have to be fattening everyday. That’s what holidays and vacations are for. A hiatus from the same foods we all tend to repeat on a daily basis.

I actively make sure I put only a small portion of the more fattening foods on my plate. I’ve been doing this for over a year now, so the holidays are no different (the foods are just more fattening).

I don’t bring home cookies and cake for me (only for my dad who could stand to gain a few pounds).

I don’t sample my own holiday baking.

I don’t neglect my regular daily exercise routine, even if it means I have to go into my relative’s guest room to do 20 pushups (if I know I’m not going to get home until late at night) or doing my stair stepping at night outside in the cold on my front wall, instead of doing it during the daytime.

Drink more water. Actually, I’m going downstairs for a glass of water right now.