Are you fasting before Thanksgiving? Are you planning to feast on Turkey Day?
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Anonymous
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Just wondering if/how you are going to adjust your diet for all of the extra Thanksgiving Day calories.
As for me, I am just now completing a 36 hour fast and will plan on eating fairly lightly today. I haven't been eating starchy/sugary carbs for the last couple of months and I'm wondering if eating stuffing, potatoes, pie, etc is going to do a number on my digestive system. We'll see I guess. |
Anonymous
| This is so not healthy. You’re perpetuating a restructured binge cycle. Balance your meals and you’ll be fine. |
Anonymous
| I guess I never thought of it quite that way. I was more concerned with avoiding a weight loss stall and keeping my average daily calories for the week at a calorie deficit (or at least not a surplus). At any rate, it's too late to change my approach now I guess. I've already fasted.... |
Anonymous
| Fasting is good for you. I do a 20 hour fast every week and 18:6 daily. Congrats on your 36 hour fast, that is pretty hard core. |
Anonymous
I regularly do 18:6 and then do a once a week 36 hour fast. I find that I get hungry right at the 24 hour mark. I have some ACV with lemon juice in water warmed in the microwave and that takes care of it. Next thing I know it's bedtime and when I wake up in the morning black coffee and a few hours later it's time to break my fast. I'm naturally not hungry in the morning so it's pretty easy for me actually. |
Anonymous
| I can’t fast before as it’ll screw with my blood sugar and the. I will overeat. I just eat a little bit of everything and try not to overdo it. We take a Long time with our thanksgiving meal so that helps. |
Anonymous
How does fasting screw up your blood sugar? |
Anonymous
| Not eating for 36 hours before Thanksgiving would be a surefire way to ensure that I go crazy at the Thanksgiving meal and feel terrible afterward. My plan is to eat healthy and get lots of exercise in the lead up to Thanksgiving, enjoy my favorite foods (but not feel like I have to eat some of everything just because Aunt Sally made it) at the Thanksgiving meal but not eat until I feel ill, and then return to normal healthy eating the next day. |
Anonymous
That's why I planned the fast to end today. I do intend to eat healthy meals today so hopefully I can avoid being too ravenous tomorrow. I just felt that I didn't want to be obsessing about calories/carbs/macros when I eat Thanksgiving dinner. I know that I will be going over my usual daily caloric intake that day. So if I wanted a deficit this week, calories needed to be cut somewhere else.... |
Anonymous
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No
Yes |
Anonymous
| Fasting starting today after breakfast; it’s on tomorrow |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
DP, but really? You don't understand how not eating for an extended period of time could negatively impact someone's blood sugar? I'm not fasting because it gives me headaches and stomach cramps and I can't exercise as intensely as I'd like to. I will enjoy Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, though I probably won't binge for the sake of binging. |
Anonymous
| I wasn't planning to, but I've come down with some gastrointestinal virus where I can't keep anything in me. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to cook for 10 people like this. |
Anonymous
Please don’t! You shed a GI virus all over that food and everyone will be miserable |