Thanksgiving Double Trouble

[Chef Kevin]

Re: Thanksgiving Double Trouble

I just don't tell people. I just eat what I can eat (of course I make sure I have plenty of dishes to eat!!!) and the rest I just ignore. Then I sit back and watch all the fat slobs eat their pie and their potatoes, and think to myself they all look like potatoes.

Why would I listen to their fat a##es tell me what I am eating is unhealthy...

Then the old people start in on all the pills they take for this and that, because they are so unhealthy.....

And they can't figure out why they can't get their blood sugar under 300 (true story here) while eating their 3rd slice of pie....

So, what I am saying is, peer pressure (or family pressure) is just what you make of it. You can make up your own mind. No one can force you to eat something you don't want to eat. I just always find that not making a big deal of it lets everything kinda blow over.

[Sherri]

Re: Thanksgiving Double Trouble

Hi Leebre,
For me, it comes down to how bad do I want it? Do I want to take a few steps back and go on a four day Thanksgiving Day eating binge? Or do I want to take steps forward and eat a Atkins friendly Thanksgiving Feast. I have found that there are great replacements for all holiday foods. Turkey, ham, gravy, stuffing, mashed cauliflower, or even sweet pototes if you're on that rung, green beans/w bacon, deviled eggs, stuffed celery, oopsie rolls w/ butter, pumpkin pie & whipped cream, all Atkins friendly.
Praparing Atkins friendly dishes and taking them with you is great too. You'll notice how quickly they disappear they're so good.
If you drink spirits, just make sure they're not sugar based.
If you need recipes, i'd be happy to share.
I like making my own cranberry sauce with fresh berries and xylitol (sweetner). Also a great flaxmeal sandwich roll you can make in the microwave goes great for making a turkey and cranberry sandwich the next day. It's all about adjusting lifestyles to work for you.
Atkins is about making lifestyle changes and I can't think of a better time than the holidays to put that to test.
Whatever it is that you decide to do, I wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
Sincerely, Sherri

[leebre]

It’s been just short of 4 months since I started Induction and I am down 40 pounds, and now am under 200. (50 pounds for the year!) I am near my goal and ready to move to OWL, a somewhat depressing thought having visited that side of the boards and now realizing that it really means Ongoing Work Load… But now I digress. Next week - the point of this thread - I travel with many of you (literally and figuratively) to all too familiar territory – to extended family for that beloved day of eating-days, Thanksgiving. My family loves to eat, and eat, and drink, and eat some more. In fact, for us, Thanksgiving is a 4 day eating and drinking extravaganza. My plan was get down to where I had a margin for error, of say about 10-12 pounds, put it on, and take it right back off while facing down Christmas and all that entails. Lots of luck,right? I don’t know how else to do it. I don’t think I have the strength to face all the family dysfunctionality, merry making, drinking, feasting, Adkins questions and ridicule, forbearance and restriction from turkey gravy, wine, mashed potatoes, stuffing, M&Ms, Bailey’s, on and on - that is needed. I’m too weak. So I just figure it’s an easy 10 pound 4 day weekend. How do you cope with it all?