#resolve Day 36 - Food Temptations Abound

Happy Thanksgiving! Today is one of the big reasons that #resolve is so important. If you're like me, the holiday season started with Halloween and all of the social events that start filling calendars. Food, especially calorie rich baked items and sweets begin to pop up around every corner. Some of the New Years resolution cycle is driven by these events. So what to do? Don't know about you but I'm not particularly fond of depriving myself of some of the great food and drink the holiday's bring (I'm marinating a leg of lamb as I write this - yum).

This brings me back to my core premise, the simple equation is calories in have to be less than calories out. So what's my plan? This is going to be a bit aggressive, but I think I can do it. My parents are visiting from Atlanta and Mary Shannon's mom is here from Winter Park and both our moms love to walk so I plan to go on a 3-4 mile walk with them later this afternoon (calories burned 450). Again, integrating social activity along with goal attainment is a great way to stay on track. My compensation for the extra 1000 calories I will most likely consume today is to go for a 6 mile run this morning (calories burned 950). This won't allow me to go crazy, but I can definitely eat a great Thanksgiving dinner, limiting heavy carbs like stuffing and coconut cake but hopefully I can end the day net even (note i said limit, not avoid - no gravy with my turkey? not a chance)

My plan is going well, my weight this morning was 184.5 so I've lost 2.5 pounds thus far. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and good luck with your challenge!