Edit in :140 pacific time: OMG MY DAUGHTER WENT TO GO HIKING WITH HER FRIEND AND AS THEY LEAVE THEY SCOPE A CHAMPION ELIPTICAL CURBSIDE FREEBIE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM US. ALL THE ELECTRONICS DO NOT WORK, BUT A BOLT ON THE SIDE AND IT IS WORKING! FITS REAL NICE ON THE BACKYARD PATIO! WHOO HOO!
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| omg I could never afford this model new. they run from 600-2000 bucks I feel blessed by an angel. |
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The house filled with the scent of the cooking turkey. If we were having a big crowd, we would also add a ham roast (as we will be doing this year) that we will cook the day before. Always our best recipes to side the course. Mounds of potatoes with pools of gravy. Piles of stuffing. And the PIES. Gotta have pumpkin and pecan. It is a tradition that has truly twisted into a condition if you are a fatty like me. No, no don't get me wrong. I am not blaming my over eating on years of family Thanksgiving..no it is just one more reason I was able to totally pork out. Believe me I could pile it daily. This year Thanksgiving WILL be different. It will be a sharing and a celebration of our good fortune and abundance, but not shoving it all into my mouth.
Thinking further the overeating part could be thought of so "New Worlder" ...considering history. Share today and take it all tomorrow. I have thought about history and how I would hope that I would not be a part of the slave driving,lynching, hanging and massacre hate of The New World.
You know what I am thankful for? Is how dieting these months I have learned some moderation. I go berserk on the binging so much less. And the cliche' fits - Eating to live not living to eat.
Monday was hard, Tuesday was easier. I am slowly gaining back my mojo. Water is happening. I think I will recover the wildness of last week.
Good journey. Good dieting.
Bluezy (Susan)
I managed to lose weight during last year's holiday feastings and my birthday, so I plan to do so again when the gauntlet of food returns.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, there are enough of us who are thinking "health" that the veggie dishes have risen, traditional faves have been rejiggered to have less weird stuff, and I can pass dessert easily these days. It's the comfort foods with emotion attached that I thought would get me, but 1/4 cup portions of them gave me the flavor without the belly-busting fullness. I skip the ordinary stuff (the stuff one can have anyday) and eat the special stuff people make themselves, rather than buy--like lots of the desesrts are bought, I find.
Make sure you add 3 healthful veggie dishes annd fresh fruit to the bounty (or some lite fruity dessert without starch/sugar). That way you have lots to fill up on and can have a LITTLE of a couple of the special stuff that connects you to tradition.
The real way to show Thanksgiving is not gorging, I've decided, philosophically. It's eating soundly, but not overeating. It's giing to those who don't have food, and cooking less for ourselves to only have waste, too many leftovers, and pained bellies.
Eat some. give some. Give thanks, right?
Princess, I wish there was family decisions on healthy alternatives. I am the only one serious about this weight loss. My supposed to be partners do a 3 mile guilt walk over yesterday's blunder and then come home and top it with Taco Bell. Hope it works for them. No one in my family will break the bad choice cycle (except me). I have to know there are just things (including new food that derailed me last week) I can not have. I need to invent/accept a new eating pattern. In Brazil, they called a diet a "regime" pronounced reh gee mey. The second definition of "regime" in English is-A system or planned way of doing things. Well I declare a new regime in my iife.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that your binges are coming under control - that's an area I still relapse on occasionally! Its almost like I can feel a binge coming on in the days before I succumb; my eyes start getting drawn towards the pastry section, I'll start checking the calories on chocolates I would have just ignored before...and then boom! Luckily I think I've been more moderate of late, when I have fallen off the wagon. Hopefully that trend will continue!
ReplyDeleteAnd I am extremely jealous of your new freebie! What are the odds?
"Eating to live not living to eat." I love that! I need to learn that too!
ReplyDeletethe kids halloween candy has been taunting me for over a week now. they're only allowed 5 small pieces after supper thank goodness i hate whoppers and nerds they must be cheap cause that's mostly what's left! LMAO
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