Thanksgiving...

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Thanksgiving...
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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 6:58am
My family and I went out for Thanksgiving dinner to a very nice restaurant. I **could** have stayed within the limits of SBD but I decided that it was just one meal and went ahead with wine, bread, butternut squash ravioli, turkey with the stuffing, potatoes and all that and even a sliver of pumpking pie. The only thing that really tasted good was the bread with butter and the stuffing. Everything else was just so unappealing to me and so not worth it. Thankfully the scale isn't up from yesterday (although I haven't actually lost anything in two weeks.)

No wonder people want to go to sleep after Thanksgiving dinner - it's not the tryptophan in the turkey, it's the fact the whole rest of the meal is SUGAR!

Hope everyone had a happy one.

Maria

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 7:44am
Well...I gained a pound yesterday and all I had was turkey, a tiny bit of stuffing, steamed broccolli and some P2 legal Pumpkin Pudding. I made sure I drank my required water, but didn't have any snacks. Not sure why I gained a pound just from that, but we'll see if it comes back off today. I am supposed to start P2 tomorrow since this is my 4th week of P1, but I've only lost 11.5 pounds...technically 10.5 since I gained that pound back yesterday. So, I am going to do a P2 Lite, where I'm going to alternate days with a glass of 1% milk or a piece of fruit. Maybe weekends allow myself one slice of Whole Grain bread or some oatmeal.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, too.

Cyndie

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 12:31pm
Hey!

I know exactly what you mean! I went all the way yesterday. Dare I say everything that I ate. Figuring, it's a holiday, I'm going for it. REGRET! I won't EVEN weigh myself right now. I know I'll only get discouraged if I do. I'm back on yogurt with fruit this morning. Not really even craving anything from yesterday. But, I had a weird side effect from all the carbs and sugar....constipation. I felt sooooo bloated and could not go if I tried. I felt like my lunch, dinner, snacks, were up to my throat! Hope everyone had a good one also, and were MUCH stronger than me! Happy Shopping to everyone!

Sincerely,

Rachel

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 2:16pm
Let me tell you about my Thanksgiving! lol. I will share all the details.

It started off with the 13.1 miles in a foot race on a warm morning. Then, it was EAT time!

Smoked Turkey, Honey Baked Ham, Stewed Squash, Green Beans, Jello stuff, Souther Sweet Potato Stuff, Brocolli and Rice, Brown and Serve Rolls, REAL sweet tea, deviled eggs, cornbread stuffing... OH BOY! Then, yea, I said then... it was mom's southern pound cake and white chocolate macadamia nut cookies! lol.

Am I feeling guilty? HECK NO! lol. It was Thanksgiving. I make no bones about how I follow this plan, but I also make no bones about what Thanksgiving food I eat either!

Ria

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 5:23pm

Maria,


You didn't do poorly, you decided on making yesterday an exception, and enjoying some of the foods that make the Thanksgiving meal special.

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 5:32pm

Am I feeling guilty? HECK NO! lol. It was Thanksgiving. I make no bones about how I follow this plan, but I also make no bones about what Thanksgiving food I eat either!


I'm with you Ria!
Part of celebrating holidays is eating the traditional foods (to me), and enjoying those foods with everyone else who is enjoying them. Guests work hard to make these special foods & no one wants to hear "I can't it's not on my diet"


Am I rationalizing? Could be.
But I know that anything gained will be lost in 2 days of following phase 1. The book says to just do a few days of phase 1 if you "blow it". It won't be hard to do that; infact I am kind of looking forward to the "bland" foods again.

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 5:49pm
I like you:) lol.
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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 7:13pm
I had 2 helpings of mashed taters and gravy yesterday, along with a roll, slice of pumpkin pie and another dessert not SBD friendly. I was planning on mashed taters for a couple of weeks and I knew I would gain some weight (1 # gain at this a.m. weigh-in), but I didn't stuff myself like I usually do. Today it was back to P2 and I don't feel the slightest bit of guilt!


Cheryl

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Fri, 11-28-2003 - 9:08pm
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

We started the same day! you are ROCKIN'!

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Sat, 11-29-2003 - 9:26am
I'm sitting here reading all your posts and cheering wildly about what great attitudes you all have about enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with no regrets and quickly getting back to business with SBD. I wonder how many of us could have felt the same way if we hadn't had some success with the program, and would have just continued sliding down that slippery slope for the rest of the holiday season. You all did wonderfully!

I'm thrilled with how I handled it. I ate my white and dark meat turkey, dressing (made my own stuffing cubes with Arnold HealthNut bread and poultry seasoning), fauxtatoes (even with a serving bowl full of the genuine article in front of me), sweet potatoes with pecans, and green beans. I'm probably the only person in New England who turned down pumpkin pie and instead had a small slice of lemon meringue pie (with the meringue scraped off!); I think I was tired of orange-ish food. I even had a glass of Pinot Grigio. I wore my crisp new jeans, and they didn't even feel tight by the end of the meal!

I consider this holiday a smashing success for me. Back to my treadmill today for the first time in over a week - back pain completely gone at last!

Congratulations to all of you!

Donna

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Sat, 11-29-2003 - 10:45am

Congrats to everyone on their Thanksgiving pleasures and successes!

Maggie  

"Success is a journey, not a destination"