To not start detox while there is still Christmas food

[Bakedpumpkin]

Need to loose weight - still have about 4 days worth of Christmas food left to finish. Meats, cheeses, party food bits, dips, chocolates. Chocolates would keep until end of Feb but I think it makes sense to finish off now then start, anyone else in same boat ?

There will always be an excuse not to start though if that’s how you think.
Friends birthday, coffee and cake with friends, Easter etc etc.
Don’t let left over food be the reason you don’t start this year.

I'm taking the opposite approach, binning all the treat food and starting back on only the healthy stuff, tomorrow. Both can work, depends what works best for you! 🙂

It’s not either all, enjoy what’s left in moderation.

you don’t need to detox, your liver does that automatically.

There were no leftovers in our house. We’d scoffed the lot by the 27th

I should bin but it was quite a costly December !

I never understand posts like this.

You are basically saying that you intend to scoff a load of food before then trying to lose weight. On what planet does that make any kind of sense?

Keep the cheese and eat that gradually over the forthcoming months. Give away the junk food because eating that is only going to make the weight loss journey take longer than it needs to.

Eating a load of crap just because you have it is plain bonkers.

Just eat small amounts of it. I never understand throwing out food in order to diet. Throwing out food seems so wrong. Give stuff away if you want but otherwise just eat small amounts of the less healthy stuff. I don't deem food good or bad. There are no banned foods in my diet, I just adjust things so that things are balanced over a few days. Come over to the LOSE IT threads OP and you'll see that we are all about health and balance. Those threads helped me lose 2.5 stone and I've been maintaining that for ages. No diet or deprivation for me just a change in what I eat in the main. I'm about to have left over veggie lasagne for dinner and I'm always all about the carbs. Every meal is carb based although I know that doesn't work for everyone.

If you put it all on olio it would be gone in less than an hour op, someone would snap it up. I had a lot of party food leftover after my son's birthday so I put a Sainsbury's chocolate cake on olio and in half an hour someone was knocking on my door to collect it.

I'd say this demonstrates that you're not in the right mindset for weight loss at the moment.

It's yo to you, but you need to go in to this thinking about the cost of losing it.

If you eat another 4lbs on then you need to lose 8lb just to be 4lb down on where you are now.

There's always an excuse to eat.

I chuck it all out - over the years you learn not to buy quite so much.

Edited to add - you say it would be a costly December if you were to bin it, but that money has been spent anyway, nothing is going to bring it back. Better in the bin than in your belly!

Can some of it freeze until you reach you first half stone?

It's a bit like a smoker asking if they'd be unreasonable not to give up smoking because they live with a smoker, so there are fags in the house.

If you're 100% serious about detox, you'll accept that there will always be temptation - that's the part you need to get your head around.

Mad bargains on cheese in Aldi today. I chopped it all up into 3rds and have frozen 2/3rds. Could you freeze some stuff? Then you have lovely stuff for another time.

I think the detox should start. Who else is in the house? My DH has eaten an entire box of Celebrations, a box of mince pies, a big box of chocolate biscuits, 2 tubes of Pringles on his own. I haven’t eaten any of it and would never have bought it. Other people can eat it, you don”t have to.

If they are unopened packs can’t you give them to the food bank? I’d give the other stuff to friends and family or freeze it.

Agree OP. I’m not going to throw food out. Still got loads left. But I’ll be eating it in moderation and as healthily as I can - eg leftover slices of ham with a salad rather than with a load of fried potatoes and a wedge of baked Camembert. About 8 mince pies left, they’ll last a week or so between the 4 of us. The chocolate and biscuits will take us months as treats.

@Cherrysoup oh my god are you me? I almost could've written that myself.

Do people really throw out all of the leftover xmas treat food? What an awful waste.

I'd do the same as the OP is proposing. I wouldn't buy any more treat food, would eat through any leftovers at a normal rate (not stuffing myself silly!) then start a diet properly once it had gone. If it's unopened can give to foodbank or similar to speed up the process. There's nothing special about starting on Jan 1st rather than a couple of weeks later.

I want to make an effort to lose weight but not until the Xmas chocs are gone

I like christmas food until around Feb, hopefully we have enough.

Although I dont mind things past their best before and Ive frozen some fancy stuffings

Could you freeze some things?

You've already spent the money on the food, it makes no difference whether you eat it or throw it.

I realised this last year that I didn’t have to stuff all the food that was left. If nobody else wanted it, it went in the bin. I’ve kept this attitude throughout the year to take away the guilt around leaving food.

Don’t take that as a righteous post! I still have lots of weight to lose 😬😄

Just use up the food as you go, freeze what you can. There’s no point in sticking up before Christmas only to bin it two weeks later - that’s a complete waste.

I’ve worked very hard to lose weight, I don’t want to compromise my mobility again and it’s a slippery slope for me, can’t eat even one chocolate! (I mean, I could, but it would probably be a lot more!

Those saying the money is already spent so why not just throw it out… I presume the OP means they will save money in January by still eating Decembers food rather than throwing it out and buying all new.