For a show of hands how many others are going to be doing this and what are your preparations for resistance?
I’m doing the GSD 45g carbs per day.
Let’s just say I originally planned to keep to that, but I’ll be having some mashed potatoes and a biscuit or 2.
That’s what I usually stick to carb wise anyway on that day.
I’m not going to totally deprive myself of the food I want on Thanksgiving. I’m not doing a show, so one day/meal isn’t going to make or break my fat loss.
At the same time I won’t be going overboard either.
In my experience it is always better to forget about the diet on Thanksgiving. Call me weak, but this is my reasoning: I can only resist temptation so many times. On an average week, this might be 2 or 3 times, given my circumstances.
On Thanksgiving, it is pretty much all day long with my family, given the snacks, drinks, meal, desserts, etc. If I do wind up being good the whole day, I usually fuck up the next day as all I can think about is all of the food I didn’t get to eat.
One day will not make/break you. However, if you are one of those people that gets a flat tire, then flattens the other three, maybe you should abstain.
I was in the middle of week 1 of the Velocity Diet last Thanksgiving and it was tough to not eat all the crap. Luckily I had my one solid meal for dinner so it was manageable.
This year I’m going to try and diet in between the holidays instead of during. IMO you really have to want to drop the fat or else the temptation is too great. I was planning out my V-Diet for months to coincide to occur right after my last college football season (literally the day after we lost out playoff game), so no holiday or event was going to stop me from getting the fat loss I was after. If I wasn’t so excited to start the diet there would be no way I would want to be dieting during thanksgiving.
There are so few holidays during the year I would be hard pressed to not be able to find a better time to diet. Don’t gorge yourself. Having a couple of extra carbs on thanksgiving will not make you sloppy. Get a good lift in the morning, and don’t’ worry about it.
I would really recommend just using some simple judgment calls like having turkey breast instead of the dark meat, not getting ridiculous with desserts, and foregoing side dishes that you don’t like that much anyway that have a lot of added fat or oil.
Think of it this way: even if you go over your maintenance by 3500 calories for the day, the most fat that can result from that is 1.0 lb. Big deal! You can lose that quickly.
The cause of the great majority of typical holiday fat gain is not the food eaten on the holidays themselves, but all the other days between Thanksgiving and New Years.
No dieting for me tomorrow. I’ll be waking up early to work out, will go about my daily routine for most of the day, but come dinner, the mash and dessert will definitely be accompanying my bacon-wrapped turkey breast. My mouth waters just thinking about it…
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
The cause of the great majority of typical holiday fat gain is not the food eaten on the holidays themselves, but all the other days between Thanksgiving and New Years.[/quote]
Yes.
What I did for Thanksgiving (I’m Canadian, so it was in November) was to go on a low-med cyclic carb diet for a week leading up to Thanksgiving, full body glycogen depleting workout in the morning too.
Thanksgiving was my carb refeed day, I f-ing love stuffing.
Everything in moderation…think about it. One day isn’t going to destroy you, and, as you said, no one needs to be stage ready in a week. Eat like a man.
[quote]silverhydra wrote:
What I did for Thanksgiving (I’m Canadian, so it was in November) was to go on a low-med cyclic carb diet for a week leading up to Thanksgiving, full body glycogen depleting workout in the morning too.
Thanksgiving was my carb refeed day, I f-ing love stuffing.[/quote]
I’m doing something along these lines myself – I’ve been 500 calories under maintenance for the last 10 days and tomorrow it’s time for a refeed!
Just came across this:
http://www.elitefts.com/documents/thanksgiving-eating.htm
I’m on top of the Chocolate Cheesecake!
IMO, unless your job as a model/bodybuilder/whatever depends on you looking great in the next few days, dieting on thanksgiving is a poor choice.
10k thursday. And I’m not talking about running.
[quote]silverhydra wrote:
What I did for Thanksgiving (I’m Canadian, so it was in November) was to go on a low-med cyclic carb diet for a week leading up to Thanksgiving, full body glycogen depleting workout in the morning too.
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I’m American, so our Thanksgiving is in July.
Anyway, I’m with Bonez on this one.
I just did a very large amount of volume during my workouts this week, I am totally dragging ass at the moment. Now come tomorrow I am going to gorge myself the entire time and will probably come away looking leaner and with a little bit of added muscle.
I don’t know about you guys, but there aren’t many times during the year where I have a nearly unlimited amount of food available, so I’m going to use it to my advantage. Shame on you if you abstain!
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
silverhydra wrote:
What I did for Thanksgiving (I’m Canadian, so it was in November) was to go on a low-med cyclic carb diet for a week leading up to Thanksgiving, full body glycogen depleting workout in the morning too.
I’m American, so our Thanksgiving is in July.
Anyway, I’m with Bonez on this one.[/quote]
hahaha, I lol’d.
I’m on the Rapid Fat Loss diet, so tomorrow I will be eating two pounds of turkey breast and a pound of broccoli.
I can eat pie next month.
Pumpkin pie, cranberry-pear pie, and apple pie all together at once though?
oh man I can’t wait…I’m going to town on everything I see…this day wasn’t meant for anyone to count calories, cut back or anything of that nature…it’s time to splurge and endulge. No dieting here. If anything this is the start of my bulk phase…what better than to start with Thanksgiving.
Lol…Great resposes so for. I just wanted to see what everyone was eating. I will be doing an hour of cardio for prep and then its on Like a turkey bone. Btw I like the 10k idea…