Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. This is the first holiday for my new pouch, I will have to be very selective but I am planning on just having some turkey and veggies and leaving out heavy stuff.  Have a great day tomorrow!

Good luck with your new pouch tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I remember last year, about 6 weeks post surgery. I ate the turkey and selected veggies. At that point my servings were about 2 Tablespoons of meat and 2 T of veggies and a fork full of DD's pumpkin pie. I was satisfied and happy. It was interesting to hear from the rest of the family how full they were, how tired they were. It's not the turkey and triptothane- it's the pigging out! . No wonder- they had eaten 2 days worth of food in one sitting. Last year DH was on liquid proteins for Thanksgiving. This year we are hosting the dinner and things will be much different.

Mine too, but I am much further out and know what I can and can't eat.  GOod luck!

I am pleaed to say that I did really well. I ate my turkey first. Had a couple of bites of squash and a couple of bites of green bean casserole.  I walked away feeling satisfied, however 20 minutes after I ate, I could not keep my eyes open.  I fell asleep on my grandmother's couch for about a half hour. You would have thought I took some sleeping pills or something.  I chalk it up to getting up at 4 a.m. to make the banana bread and cranberry bread and the homemade sugar free cranberry sauce that I was to bring as my offering.  For my first go at it, the cranberry sauce came out really good. I am glad I didnt have to go without it as its just not Thanksgiving for me without the cranberry sauce. I hope everyone had a great day.

I am so glad to hear that you had a good Thanksgiving.  I survived mine but it wasn't easy.  I am still on liquids, so I couldn't have any of the feast and I grabbed the wrong thing from my fridge to take with me, so I had nothing at all excep****er until I got back home.  I kept reminding myself that this is the only Thanksgiving that it will be this way and that it will all be worth it.  I cried when I got home.  
Well, today is a new day, and I feel great again.  I know that since I made it through Thanksgiving, I can make it through any holiday.  I also learned that I need to be more prepared with choices and look more carefully at what I quickly grab from the fridge.

Bev