Holiday Eating Hell Month

I read post after post where people throw up their hands about food choices during the holiday season.  I know it well.  It is the "one more cookie/dip/cracker/pig won't matter, I have already blown it this week anyway" attitude.  It will be the death of our well being!

STEP AWAY FROM THE COOKIES!

How about joining me in taking every moment you reach for food to choose the very best option in front of you?  Here is my commitment: 

Every party where I am to bring a di**** will be protein, layered with protein, smothered in protein.  I know I am eating more than usual, but the least I can do is eat turkey roll-ups, cheese sticks, shrimp, smoked tuna spread, chicken wings, steak bites, etc.  If my choice is dip, I am going to pick the one with the least horrible impact.  When I reach for a holiday beverage, it will be the low calorie choice offered.

I will get back to low/no carbs after the holidays. But it is still a couple of weeks away.  I need to make the best possible choices today.  Tomorrow.  Saturday.

Are you with me?

I'm with ya! I know I will be eating some things that I normal do not eat, but its the holidays, so I will indulge a bit, but I will try not to overindulge. My plan is to just try to maintain over the holidays and then after the new year get back on track with my normal eating/exercise routine. I think the exercise part is hard too b/c we have so many things going on and there isn't always time to exercise at all, so I'm going to try to incorporate some exercise in each day that I'm able to and not just let that slide! Good Luck sticking to your plan!!!!

I fully intend to enjoy the holidays!  I know my consumption is higher than usual.  I *feel* it because I still have the uncomfortable overeating functionality of my tool.  I know the time between Thanksgiving and New Years is not what makes me a MO person.  It is the time between New Years and Thanksgiving.

Years ago, a friend who was of normal weight would take a bite of something dessert-like.  That was about all because she would announce, "It is good, but not worth the calories."

I like that.

Vicky, this is a great post.  I am just trying to do damage control this month; I know I have my work cut out for me in the next few months as I get serious about the re-gain I've just dabbled with this past year (& more).

I  have not had a great month, eating-wise, so far.  Miraculously, I have just been staying the same (not that I'm in a good place right now to begin with!).  I know the next 2 weeks are going to be brutal.  I am really going to try to keep in mind what you've said here--even if it just means making choices with "the least horrible impact"!!  And any shred of self-control will mean just a tiny bit less weight to deal with when the food fests are over. 

Thanks for the reminder about the old "all or nothing" defeatist attitude.

Remaining the same during Food Season IS success!  My goal is to hold steady.  Once I am back on a better routine, and there is no more fabulous homemade dips and spreads to brush on my five million a day racker habit, I think I will see a little action of the scale.

For once my New Years Resolution is not to lose weight, but to E X E R C I S E.

our office is doing a dish to pass and I know the rest of them will be carbs, more carbs, make that sweet carbs......
I will instead bring a large piece of meat or maybe a spiral ham...............I want to have meat and lots of it, one I do not do often so it will be a treat for me too.

TREATS can be in protein form.  I use shrimp.  Not the little salad shrimp I live on, but the huge, gorgeous shrimp ****tail that are as big as my hand.  And if I go to a party........... I sit by the shrimp bowl!

Vickie are you spying on me, wow this is the FIRST year since WLS that I have struggled like this and I'm terrified that it's come to this point.  I know what I have to do and I fully intend to throw all the junk away after Christmas.

I am maintaining, don't know how but I am so I am trying to be grateful and not allow myself to feel angry because I am fighting all the food demons.

 Hurry 2009 I'm ready for this to be over with, lol. 

   

 

I had surgery two weeks before Christmas.  That year, I spent all day sipping a chocolate protein drink and some mushroom soup.  The next year, I was so pleased with the new me I ate 100% according to plan.  Last year, I had sfacial surgery and was low and feeling the pain.  Eating poorly was not a problem.

This year.............................I am in rare form, happy camper and have eaten my entire lost weight total in crackers with luscious stuff smeared on them!  It is going to be a long month!  HAHAHAHA

Awesome post, and my friend, I FEEL YOU!  I am 16 months out from RNY and four months out from Tummy Tuck.  Lowest weight was 122 now holding steady between 128-131 depending on,  well, potty days lol.  I am able to eat ALOT more all of a sudden and I am scared.  My Dr. told me it is ok to get to 135, but um...no way.  I can see I am going to have to battle myself again...the days of easy losing are over.  I just need some willpower and some type of zapping spell that effects my fingers with all the food u know lol.    I am going to come to this board daily because u ladies have alot of wisdom I need.  I do not want to gain back what I have tried so hard to lose.  I want to be healthy, and I feel I am now at this weight.  I looked pretty sick in the low 20s so I just wanna stay here now.  HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Merry Christmas to everyone, and I appreciate each and everyone of you more than u know!