Love that saying!! Great job! My family gatherings are always focused on food also and my biggest worry was feeling deprived. I've learned that it feels way better making good choices and getting the weight off. I don't feel deprived at all!

I can relate to your family gatherings. Mine are the same. Lucky for me my sister had WLS in September and the rest of our family is very supportive. So we are all getting fit together. Except my mom, who still cooks with a pound of butter at a time. If she has less then 6 pounds of butter in the house she gets worried. I was raised to cook for the large masses- from 3 people to 20 -seem to make the same amount of food. We all aways had at least 3 different desserts to choose from and appetizers. We do alway have salad and veggies. I haven't been to mom's since surgery so that will be a big test when we go up.

I think having a large family would be great, but I don't and maybe for the first time that will work to my advantage! lol

LOL Suzi- when I bought my first house, I called my mom and said, "hey mom, I don't know what I'm doing wrong but my mashed potatoes don't look right." She said, "why what do they look like" and I replied, "Well they're white?" I ALWAYS thought they were yellow because my mom cooked with so much butter!

yup, me too and if someone doesn't eat, automatically they are sick..

havent had a family gathering yet will be interesting!