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Okay….so next week is Halloween National Candy Day, and then comes Thanksgiving Turkey Day and Christmas The Month of Sugar Plums. Yeah, I’d say there are rocks ahead.
I believe that when it comes to our weight loss goals, advance planning and advance decision making is half - maybe even three-fourths- of the battle. So let’s start talking.
What pitfalls do you see ahead for the holiday season? What temptations do you think are going to be hardest for you? A certain gathering? A certain traditional food? Don’t worry about solutions today - let’s just start naming the problems so we can start planning our attack. We’re in this war together!
Pitfalls for me will be Turkey Day, which I celebrate twice. Both of the ladies hostessing are great cooks in that their food is yummy, but they have never heard of cooking healthy. The three major food groups are all there will be: sugar, butter, and salt. For balance there might be some lard.
Did I mention that these two celebrations fall within two days of each other?
Comment by lady laura — October 24, 2006 @ 11:51 am
I have not been able to cook a traditional Thanksgiving or Christmas meal in a couple years. I was 8 and 9 months prego the last 2 years at each holiday. We love it all…the stuffing, yams, potatoes, turkey, gravy, this awesome maple pumpkin pie I make, green bean cassorole, homemade rolls, pumpkin cheese cake, gravy, more potatoes, stuffing, more turkey…I was so looking forward to cooking all this yummy stuff this year…at least once.
Comment by Tami — October 24, 2006 @ 12:18 pm
Halloween should be ok,because candy has lost ALL it’s appeal. Thanksgiving I’m going to TRY to make it as lowcarb as possible. I found a sugarfree recipe for cranberry sauce. The mashed potatoes and gravy will be the hardest…
Christmas is the hardest with making sugar cookies, and pumpkin bread. I’ve decide to allow myself only one day to enjoy those goodies, instead of the full two weeks. My hardest thing is that once I cheat, I have a hard time getting back on the diet.
Comment by Kimberly — October 24, 2006 @ 12:52 pm
Pitfalls for me…
November…December…
;-)
Comment by Ellen — October 24, 2006 @ 3:01 pm
Halloween is no problem for us. We don’t have kids so there is no reason to have all of that candy in the house. BUT, we are spending Thanksgiving with my family this year and none of them know how to eat healthy. So, we need to build up our defenses now in preparation! I did offer to cook for my Dad and his wife and they are going along with it. But my Mom will cook a dinner too and hers will be more scary calorically. And in general, they both keep junk food in the house. So, I’m going to have to get in the practice of just saying NO!
Comment by Anita — October 24, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
Kimberly, I’m right there with you. Jeff’s mom was in town for 10 days and now I’ve really struggled the last 2 weeks to get up and going again. I told my husband this evening to make me get up with him (5 am YUCK!!!!!) no matter how ugly I may be. That is the only chance I get to exercise.
Comment by Tami — October 24, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
It’s gonna be Christmas that’s hard for me - well, we don’t have thanksgiving, and I don’t think we make such a thing of Halloween either. Actually I personally hate Halloween, it’s such a yucky concept. I’ve found it great the years when I#ve been able to get involved with a ‘light party’ - run by our church to give Christian kids an alternative thing to do.
Anyway, I was talking about Christmas - lots of yummy but vey unhealthy food available. In fact I’ve found it tricky any sort of party thing that I’ve been to.
Comment by Debs — October 25, 2006 @ 12:57 am
We don’t do Halloween, so it’s not a problem. (other than the fact that we go out to eat to avoid the crush that invades our neighborhood. If we don’t get out by 4:30, forget it, we’ll be trapped. Only one way in and out of the subdivision…)
Thanksgiving is just my family and my FIL at our house - I’m cooking. It will basically be a regular meal, except for the turkey - and the turkey isn’t a problem for my diet.
So that leaves Christmas and the rounds of parties, the cookies, the travelling, the parents’ home. I’ve done well in the past - but it always involves thinking ahead.
And I will have a piece of pumpkin pie every day that it exists. Thankfully there will only be one pie, and it will be at my mom’s, where there are three other avid pumpkin pie lovers. If I hold it to a piece a day, I will probably only get two pieces before it runs out.
I love pumpkin pie.
Comment by Tracy — October 25, 2006 @ 7:27 am
Tracy, if you don’t mind using splenda, I made a pumpkin cheesecake a couple of years ago that was real pasable. Nothing beats the real thing, but some days, it’s “any old port in the storm”
Comment by Ellen — October 25, 2006 @ 6:33 pm
I don’t mind splenda - but I only have pumpkin pie on the holiday that I spend with my parents (either Thanksgiving or Christmas, depends on whether it’s an odd or even year - even years get Christmas). I’ve already decided to have the pie, and enjoy every bite. I’ve done this before and it actually helped a lot to be able to say NO to the other pitfalls, as I looked forward to my pie
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I would like that recipe anyway! Thank you!
Comment by Tracy — October 25, 2006 @ 8:49 pm
And blest - is it Princess Bride? one of the rhyming lines?
Comment by Tracy — October 25, 2006 @ 8:52 pm
“If there are, we’ll all be dead.”
In our house they are know as “pitholes”. Not to be confused with “pitfalls” or “potholes”. This came about when Hubby was translating from German to English at a Russian wedding so the Russian could translate it from English to Russian. He said that marriage was filled with many pitholes. I love that guy.
Thanksgiving and Christmas is bad because my in-laws like to lavish chocolate and homemade German cakes and cookies upon us. Of course, we have to have coffee hour every day with whipped cream in our coffee. I get fat just thinking about it.
Comment by LeighAnn — October 26, 2006 @ 5:24 pm