Preparing For Thanksgiving & weigh in

Like I mentioned in my last post I have a big long weekend ahead starting with tomorrow, Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a day centered around: giving Thanks for all we have. This is the one day of the year where people plan to eat until they’re sick. We wear loose fitting pants because we know we are going to eat too much.  Are we Thankful for the food we have access to? Of course we are but we treat this day as if its purpose is to worship food. I am not demeaning the importance of our Holiday meals together as a family, I just think we really need to take a step back from the glutton-fest it has seem to become.  When I was buying my turkey the recommendation was that I purchase a pound & a half per guest! OK, let’s say while cooking the Turkey loses that half pound per serving during the cooking process, they are still recommending 16 oz of turkey per person!  Is this a marketing ploy or is it really what we find acceptable and needed?  My turkey serving I have planned for Thanksgiving is 6 oz and I thought that was allot.  I can imagine eating 16 oz of turkey.   I was up late calculating my points for my Thanksgiving meal. I will be weighing and measuring my food and tracking every bite.  I am going to be able to eat my Thanksgiving dinner with out that guilt feeling afterwards. WW gives me 26 points a day and my Thanksgiving meal is 25 points. Good news is I have access to all my weekly points for this weekend as well so I have my extra 49 to pull from for the other meals during the day. 

The next two days will also include eating out for every meal. I don’t know where we will be eating out each meal but I know a few so I went ahead and plugged those in and then for the meals I was unsure of I reserved blocks of points. For example: on Friday night I know we’ll be eating at a buffet so I reserved 20 points for that alone. I literally have all my points written down for Thur-Sat, as close as I could guess they would be.   I feel totally confident in my plans for this weekend. I am not worried about “blowing” my diet or feeling so guilty & down I just give up. Speaking of tracking and not feeling guilty let’s get to today’s weigh in!

This morning’s weigh in came in at -2.8!!!!!!!!!!!!  That makes a total of 12 lbs since I joined in April and the majority (put pouds here) of this was since I did my Advocare cleanse almost 3 months ago. I don’t know that I’ve ever been this excited about losing under 3 lbs.  But I am thrilled. The scale is SO close to the 160’s I can taste it.  This week I tracked everything! I enjoyed going out with my hubby and eating a philly cheese steak sandwich, fires and a brownie for dessert. I went out to my boy’s favorite restaurant and was able to find something that fit into my daily points. I enjoy my favorite evening snack of popcorn EVERY night! I always think back about how after the first couple weeks of tracking again in WW I always brag about how wonderful the plan is and how I am not deprived and how doable it is. It baffles me that so many times in the past I give up.  I feel the difference this time is going to be the fact that I am prepared for low weight loss under a pound. I am actually measuring, weighing and tracking every bite. And the biggest difference of all is I am being honest with myself. I can’t lie to myself about the effort I’ve put into dieting in the past. I know anything I put my mind to I succeed. In the past I have chosen to listen to that little voice inside my head that tells me: I’m not worth it, that I followed the plan and gained weight (knowing I over ate), you deserve a break or the biggest lie of all: you can be happy & healthy this way. 

I am very happy with my life, I am truly blessed! But my body needs me to be healthy, my family needs me healthy, I need me healthy and I don’t care what you think if you are overweight you are not healthy.  You may say “But I have no medical issues, my Dr says I’m healthy.” I am calling BS! I know I’ve said this before but just because you may not have anything that requires medication yet doesn’t make you healthy. Keep on this road and you will need medication.  I believe once you take the “I want to be thin/skinny” out of the vocabulary and change it to I want to be healthy something in your thinking changes.  A common saying when you as a Mom to be do you want a boy or girl is it doesn’t matter as long as he or she is healthy. We worry about our kids health before they are even, and yet somehow we believe the lie that it is ok for us to be unhealthy.  I challenge you to change the belief that it is ok to not live a healthy life style. I will get off my soap box now, but isn’t that kind of what a blog is your own virtual soapbox?? LOL!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Plan and be prepared and you can enjoy even more than your relative that is unbuttoning their pants and rubbing their belly saying they need just a little bit longer before they have pie.  You can have your pie and enjoy it too. Make good choices do indulge in your favorites but measure your portions to keep you from over indulging.