Thanksgiving

Nessa,

That's great, I would love to come, but I start my liver shrinking diet the week before.

Thanksgiving is going to very interesting for me. Probably my first time in all of my 48years I won't be having sliced turkey and a turkey sandwich with cranberry later that night. Traditional in our family. Everyone can't wait for that turkey sandwich late that night. If I can make it through this I can make it any holiday.

Thanks for the offer.

Robin

I can't  think of a better reason to miss food than prep for surgery to change your life for the better!

Nessa that is so sweet of you!!!!!! Unfourtunatly, I will be in the OBX that whole week. I am SOOOO FREAKIN EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can u tell....LoL. This will be me and hubby's first time there and were going with my BFF and her hubby and some other friends. Our pups are coming too!!!!

oh kelly I'm a moron what is OBX?

Your not a moron!!!! I can name a few that are!!!! LOL   The Outer Banks

Name them woman! I KNOW I AM ON THAT LIST! LOL ;o)~~  And you know I didnt know Outer Banks was OBX until I was in my late 20's LOL

Nessa that is so nice of you!  You have what I call a brave menu after just having had surgery. 

I am still trying to figure myself out for Thanksgiving.  I am not traveling to celebrate with my family for more reasons that I can shake a stick at.  Your post is inviting and April B. was so nice to extend the offer to join her family since I will be an orphan, but I have to be honest as honest gets -  right this very moment I do not think I am emotionally ready to deal with food in this way.  I thought about even before my surgery.  I cooked dinner last year for a friend and myself and it was a relaxing but busy day of cooking.  Even then I didn't go overboard so on one hand while it would be great to be a with a crowd of people to give thanks for,  I am still contemplating the idea of making a nice small meal for myself so I know that I can handle this first holiday post WLS.

Thanksgiving has always been a very stressful family holiday for me and most of it has revolved around food and who is watching what I am eating or if I ate seconds of this and that.  I even remember it being a huge process of deciding on a menu in my family that was simple and it never would even come close.  I think about Thanksgiving and I get so upset.  It's always been a holiday to eat and nothing else.  Literally my family would eat at like NOON...who the FFFFFFFFFFF eats at noon but then we'd eat ALL DAY LONG!!!! Until we took turns napping and then were stuffed more than the turkey that we were in pjs all day.  Thanksgiving stirs up so many feelings for me that when I just read your post I started to get teary...sigh! 

Regardless of what I do or where I end up this Thanksgiving Holiday, here is hoping that I have the strength to get through it and find things other than food indulgences to be thankful for! I sure hope I am not the only person feeling this way either! 

Nikki,  both brian and I are newbies to WLS.  My FIL and BIL are diabetics so food while plentiful is made as healthy as possible and brian and I will be watching portions.

I want you to know that this will be a safe place if you change your mind and you are welcome even at the last minute.

however I respect your decision and give you tons of credit for being so self aware.

thanks so much and I appreciate that not even knowing you personally! It's so great to have people "get" you as i struggle with this daily too.   

I've been in a bit of a funk since surgery with lots of ups and downs...kinda like I've been put through the ringer and hung out to dry every other day, but hopefully by Thanksgiving I'm more up  in my mood, down and in my weight and the holiday wont affect me to so much.  You all will be the first to know what I am doing. 



XOXO
Nikki

Congrats on realizing you are not emotionally ready!  To me this is more reason to go somewhere where the host/hostess KNOW your history and where you are now, and where you want to be!  They won't keep piling more on your plate!  (I hate that feeling!!!)

I started this post to share - we are at 1pm... For that matter my 18 year old cousin has convinced my Grandma to eat a noon this year with the idea they can leave her house by 1pm and be at mine for dinner for 6:30pm...  (They are driving 5 hours to eat with us and get up and go Black Friday shopping!)

To say the least at least NOW we are all aware of the food issues that surround Thanksgiving and can learn about ourselves and how to avoid our own pitfalls.