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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

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, too.
Cyndie
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
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
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.
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.
Cheryl
173#
147#
135#
started 9/8/03
We started the same day! you are ROCKIN'!
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
177/162 (and hoping to still be that at weigh-in tomorrow/143
Congrats to everyone on their Thanksgiving pleasures and successes!
Maggie
"Success is a journey, not a destination"