Ok...I've given up white everything...sugar, white flour, potatoes, white rice, milk, alcohol. I eat following the Transition diet every day (as closely as I can without completely blowing my budget). What's left to eat at the Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts???????

What I've decided to do is just eat what's there. Am I going to allow myself mashed potatoes with butter and gravy? YES. Am I going to eat my great grandmother's recipe white bread stuffing? YES. Am I going to eat a piece of pie? YES. What about the infamous Green Bean Casserole (the one with cream of mushroom soup and fried onions)? Yes. Am I going to have my Mother's famous champagne punch? YES. However, I will do so in moderation and try my best to balance with salad and some raw veggies. Just because I have chosen to change my normal, daily way of eating doesn't mean that I have to bring my own food or request special dishes or miss out on traditional family feasts during the holidays...especially since it's only two meals!

I've decided that life is too short to not indulge, albeit RARELY, on things that are not my everyday way of eating.

Has anyone else come to that conculsion?
Deb

Yes, I did what you did and just said the heck with it for today...Thanksgiving. I had one plate of food-I vowed to myself before the meal that one plate was it...I ate salad first, then had a plate with turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, gravy, cranberries and bread with butter. I also had a piece of choc. pie for desert with caffeinated coffee.

My husband ended up finishing my plate because I could not eat everything.

I felt horrible later in the day, sick! I haven't had sugar for a very long time or white bread. The caffeinated coffee probably did me no good either. I could not wait until Friday to feel normal again and get back on the program.

I could not even eat a snack later Thanksgiving evening because I felt so rotten....

I think that Christmas is going to be different...I will eat more healthy!

MJ

I did the same. I ate but moderately. I have been at this a year, having started when I quit smoking...(yaaay...a year!) so I was a little afraid that I would get sick if I over-indulged. My weight has been locked at 150 for months and I have been reading here about "resetting metabolism" and "carb cycling". I am using the Thanksgiving meal as an experiment with an additional couple of days of carbing up to see if that might actually get my weight moving again. Yesterday I had a few peices of pizza w/ crust for the first time in a year. Hubby was shocked! I am taking my grandson to see Happy Feet today and having popcorn, too. Then meat and eggs starting Monday. That so totally works to get the cravings gone!

Wow, I did approximately the same thing. I've had this headache I can't seem to get rid of...have not had one in over two months since changing my way of eating! I did not "over do" but, there were not too may healthy choices. The one person who was supposed to bring a veggie tray opted for a veggie pizza complete with cream cheese on some kind of white dough crust. Urggghhh! So, I did eat more of the green beans and only had a very small piece of pie. Just one glass of Merlot (which I bought at the health food store and did not contain sulfites).

Immediately went back to SP!

Will plan to make my part of Christmas Family dinner a big salad
Deb