Holiday parties. ACK.

This is my first holiday season following my CAD diagnosis/angioplasty, and it certainly is a challenge. I'm finding it fairly easy to say no to many things, but other things are a lot harder. If I let myself have "just a little" of everything I want, I'd be having more than I'm comfortable with, health-wise. Yet it's hard to spend hours watching everyone else eat things I used to eat and enjoy every year. I actually walked out of a party once this week, and have several more to go. Sigh.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to be alive with CAD as opposed to the alternative from heart disease; and on the scale of life's problems, not having cookies and pie and chocolate rates pretty low. I just needed to vent. Thanks for listening. If anyone has suggestions on how they handle this, or even words of encouragement/support, I'd much appreciate it!