We're having an off-plan Thanksgiving here as well! My family is coming in from across the country and Mom is going to cook, woohoo!
I'm very excited about it! I have been cheat free since I started in June and I'm very much looking forward to the holiday!
I think the mindset one has when choosing to have an off plan meal is the key. If you know that you can eat off plan once and get right back on without sabotaging yourself, that's great! I've said before that I never tell myself I cannot have (pick a carby food) ever again.. I tell myself that I can't have it right now.. but someday I'll have it if I really want it.
For me (and this is just MY experience!), saying that I will never ever have something again is a surefire way to ensure that I will want it big time.. lol.
I thought about this a lot around my birthday, and decided not to eat off plan. Birthday cake is great, but it wasn't worth redoing the induction stuff for a week, so I chose not to have it.
Thanksgiving with family (we live spread out across the country and overseas) is a very rare event and food is part of the "ceremony" of the holiday.
I know many disagree, but for me every once in awhile there is something special enough that makes an off plan meal well worth it. Nothing has been that special yet, but Thanksgiving will be it for me
However, I have planned ahead already to make sure that going back on plan won't be challenging. We're only making enough for the meal to limit leftovers and what's left will be thrown away (as those visiting don't live close enough to bring leftovers home, lol). I'm also going to shop a day or two before to be sure that I have all the great LC foods that I love on hand so I won't be left wanting the next day!
Oof, this is too long already, sorry! lol