Just think.. For the 1st time you wont...
...gain weight from the Turkey Day meal lol. ( ok so odds are you wont that is ).
Its so strange to think about last year compared to this year. Last year I couldn't wait for turkey day and stuffing myself to the point of not being able to move for at least 2 hours lol. Then there was the nap feeling that came after over eating to the extreme where we would all head into the living room and veg out till we were comfortable enough to move enough to make it home lol.
This year that wont be happening lol at least for me. I will be lucky to get some turkey and gravy down. And as for over filling to the point of exploding lol well I think we all know the wonderful sharp jabbing pain that will bring us so nope going to be stopping just before full.
In a way its exciting to think for ONCE I am in control of the food ( thanks to my new tool ) instead of the food controlling me. In another way its depressing to think of how much yumminess I will be missing. But it will be a fleeting depression as I remember that NEXT Turkey Day I will be half the person I am today thanks to the control my new little "friend" has given me.
How about you all? How are you dealing with Turkey Day?
*hugs*
Felicia
Felicia..... you are so right! We have a family tradition for Thanksgiving Day to go to a restaurant to eat and then on to a movie in the afternoon. Usually I am so full, that I don't even enjoy the movie. But this year, I know that I will be the only comfortable one!! I am four weeks out and have lost 35 lbs. The rest of my family I worried about eating their dinner in front of me, but I have told them not to worry about me, because I absolutely DO NOT get hungry and only eat my small amounts because I have to. Isn't this such an exciting journey..... I can't wait until next summer and to feel so much better about doing summer activities!! Good Luck on your journey!!
LOL My mom did the same thing.
"Ok tell me what foods you are allowed to have or not".. I was like "Mom just cook whatever you are going to cook and I will be fine".. She was like " But I don't want to tempt you with things you are *not allowed to have*".. I laughed and said that there was no possibility of that since it will be hard enough to be hungry enough to even eat in the first place let alone worry about all the "tempting" foods. My tummy has beat me up enough in the last 7 weeks that I have learned that no matter HOW YUMMY it looks its so not worth what it will cost me pain wise if I eat it lmaooooo They are all pretty good about it except Mom is sure that I am now starving to death *grin*. This will be our first family meal together since surgery. They are going to be freaked when I put that tiny piece of turkey and that drip or two of gravy on my plate and then after eating it ( 20 mins later lmaoo) put back with a sigh of how full I am lmaoooooooooooooo... Should be great fun.
Sounds like you have a wonderful family tradition!! I am amazed you can find a restaurant open. Around here its like a ghost town by noon tomorrow.
Have a great one!!
*hugs*
Felicia
I am like the both of you and feel in control of what goes in....Finally!!! Everyone is always so worried about what I am going to have and I tell them politely in no such terms that I will eat when I am hungery (which is rarely but eat because of having to) and that everyone enjoy and I will enjoy the conversation going around the table. I can not wait until this time next year and all the control that we have now will make us "big lossers" in the end!!! Yeah us!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Deanne
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