I know Halloween is only next week so maybe this is too early to think about??????

The Holidays!!!!! AHHH!

What are people thinking in terms of weight issues for the holidays? Is it your goal to continue on your "loss" trajectory? maintain current weight? Or plan on keeping holiday gain to XXX pounds?

Since we live at the end of a dead end street & you can't see any of the houses from the main road we never ever have even 1 single trick or treater so we don't buy any extra candy.

Food is not my problem at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We go to my sister's for our family dinners and that is it. My father, my sister and our best friend (practically another sister) are all diabetic so there are not any sweets.
Money is my problem. I know it is not about the presents but I love giving gifts. Luckily, this year, I have been planning ahead and have most of my gifts bought already. That is really luckly since money is a bit tight right now.

My goal is to get my family to try some new healther versions of some of our holiday favorites. The dinners themselves aren't the problem. I am a sugar and carb fend. It is the candy, cookies, pie, and ice cream in the house a the time that is the problem. If I am around either of my sils, I do okay. They are good about reminding me about my choices and what might be a better choice. My DM however doesn't see why anybody else in the house should suffer since I am the only one living there with a weight problem. My DH doesn't eat much sweets, but my DM is a whole different story. As we all live together it is an issue I deal with year around.
I guess I will make sure if I am going to have to make it rare, but make it count. I would like to continue to loose weight. I am just getting my momentum back. I would however be happy with maintaining. (through the holidays, that is.)

Mnm

I'm with Jill, winter tends to be easier for me with weight loss.

I'm also planning on losing another 5 pounds before the end of the year.

i am similar with my labelling of food as bad. it has taken a lot of time for me to shif t my thinking and boy, how easy it is to fall back to old thinking patterns.

I don't think it's at all early to think about this. But I'm a planner by nature.

I have every intention of going through the end of the year with no weight gain. I'm determined to take off five more pounds before the end of the year, which is doable as long as I avoid salt as much as possible. Everything else is working, salt is what ends up killing me.

My current plan is to keep in half marathon shape, which will keep me running 3 days per week. Part of my regular training plan includes swimming one day per week, cross training 1 day per week, and two rest days. I do have a "biggest loser" boot camp planned for the four week break between semesters, that should also help.

I'm actually not really looking forward to this weekend, when I get two meals at one of my absolutely favorite restaurants because the salt will inevitably leave me really, really unhappy Sunday AM on the scale. (But I am not living on salad when I only get to this restaurant two or three times a year max.)

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Summer is vacations, ice cream, ice cream, and did I mention ice cream?

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I feel your pain, Jill. I had to institute a "5 mile or more run that day" rule to be able to eat ice cream for that same reason.

Believe it or not I can get through the holidays better than the summer. Summer is vacations, ice cream, ice cream, and did I mention ice cream? I used to love cookies, cake, etc (and still do) and could not control myself. Now, even on our Christmas cookie baking day at my sister's, I eat a few but do not put away a dozen or two like I used to. Even though summer is swim-suit weather and more flesh shows, I always seem to gain more in the summer. I also eat more soups and hot foods in winter which I know makes me feel more satisfied. And even though winter foods, for me, tend to be "heavier" than summer stuff, I seem to eat less. Seems a little reverse of most people but that's me.

I plan to lose a few lbs. and am working out regularly 3-4x/wk. I would happy to maintain or lose a few lbs by the end of the year. As long as I'm not gaining, I'm good.

I have been trying very hard to not put labels on food. Not looking at a cookie as my worst enemy or beating myself up over what I ate. And I actually crave things and eat less when I look at foods from the mentality that nothing is good or bad.

Jill