What are your Thanksgiving plans?

 What are your plans for Thanksgiving?  Are you staying home or going to visit family/friends? As we plan our Thanksgiving dinner, I find that everyone wants the traditional foods, and so do I.  But I have found myself planning ahead  just to be safe and smart about the things I eat. So many southern foods have sugar and loads of butter.  Oh this is gonna be different, my 1st BIG family gathering after WLS. What ever your plans are........ENJOY !!! Deb

Going to Mom's, as usual.  No changes for me this year except I'll be able to eat something (unlike last year when I was less than 2 weeks out and couldn't eat anything).  I am going to try to stay away from the carb-loaded foods though and try to eat all the turkey, ham, and roast beef I want to!

I absolutely love Thanksgiving.  Its my favorite Holiday because there is none of the gift stress.  We go to my Dad's farm where he grew up.  Its where we would go as children with our Grandparents.  My dad has two brothers and a sister and there are ten of us first cousins.  We still all come there for Thanksgiving with our children and spouses.   I know that my Grandparent's are so happy that we are are still at their homeplace celebrating our thanks and love for our family.  The children will get to run wild in the fields, climb the old oak andMagnolia trees,  feed the horses, and make forts in the wood just as we did years ago.    My Dad will smoke a turkey, there will be a fried and baked one and probably a ham.  Dad also does some wild game on the grill.  All of the males in the family are over 6'3", so we eat a LOT.  The amount of food is obscene.  Its my third Thanksgiving after WLS, so I hope to be able to keep away from the carbs.    I wish everyone else a safe, loving, and Happy Thanksgiving Mary

this to is a special Thanksgiving for me to I have not been home in 20 years for this & oh my I mean the food they are already planning all kinds of food Lord help me is all I can say lol,I am going to my big sis for the dinner & get lots of hugs on her new baby awww he is a so sweet ,& then at night I have to go to my mother n laws for a big bash ,but I know I can not eat anything with sugar or my dinner will be at home on the pot lol so I am making a or I shoud say I am buying a pie from wallmart sugarfree so tempations will not get the best of me lol, & my mother n law is like Paula Dean  lol she can cook all kinds of food & nothing is good for you lol so look out Turkey & ham here I come ,     Just would like to take the time to thank every one for everything they have done to help me thru this process in life I have so much to be thankfull for this year especially the new wonderfull freinds on OH ,THANK YOU ALL & HAVE A WONDERFULL TURKEY DAY LOVE YOU ALL BECKY

This is the first Thanksgiving in 6 years that I will be actually spending the entire day with my family.Reasons being I'm still out on medical leave and my job at our eastside hospital does not require that I work holidays now, yeah!! We are going to my daughters in-laws in Elloree, SC. My god, low county cooking and on Thanksgiving= TROUBLE. They have their family get together at the church since there is so many of them, so you can imagine the amount of food that is there. You can smell the fat and sugar when you walk in the door. I will have to use control this year and make sure I don't over do it. Last year I was just starting on soft foods so it wasn't hard to be good, plus I had to work that day so I was tired by the time I got to my daughters to eat and with my pouch being new, I didn't have the desire to eat much at all. Now this year might be different, lol. But, I will be good cause I'm sure everyone there will be watching me eat, lol.    Hope everyone has a Happy Turkey Day!     Mary

hey board... long time no post! for Thanksgiving my daddy is coming to SC from Cali... I AM SO EXCITED!!! I am going to sneak back home with him... Im plotting to hide in his luggage! I am off all next week to spend time with him and register for classes... But other than that... I am just going to be a DADDYS GIRL and enjoy the time with him!!!  I pray you ALL have a safe and blessed Holiday!!!!

i'm staying home. My Husband and I are going to cook this year.. There will a lot of different foods this year.. I wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I am 3 months out of surgery and probably will heed the advice on here and stick with protein stuff. Although I do love cranberries! I have not had a craving for anything sweet since surgery, so I am hoping that will still be easy to stay away from. The boys will be spending thanksgiving with their dads, the first one away from me  so instead of cooking we are probably going to go out to eat, maybe Ryans...unless anyone knows of some place else that is reasonable for thanksgiving dinner? I know the hotels are doing something, but I dont want to spend a fortune when I cant eat very much! Hope everyone has a safe and happy one!!! ~Melissa

We are meeting at my cousin's house upstate.  We do this every year now.  It's the most central location to everyone.  2 turkeys (one fried) and lots of country cooking!  We have a number of diabetics in our family now so my sugar free desserts will be more welcome this year.  I never mentioned the lack of sugar but somehow they always knew.