Hope your day was fantastic. Hope you were able to keep your eating moderate. Hope there was lots of family, food, friends and fun.

I had a lovely day. My husband's mother and brother came in on Wednesday and we had Thankgiving at my parent's house with my brothers and their families too. Was a long but fun day. I ate way too much. Ate a lightly full plate of food but at least half of it was veggies. I also ate a cupcake and a piece of apple strusel cheesecake. Overall it wasn't too bad, not good but it could have been so much worse.

I have developed a horrible addiction to pumpkin scones from Whole Foods. Hope that goes away soon. I've basicallly decided I just need to try to reduce the damage to minimal levels until after Christmas. I think things will be pretty tough for me until then.

Let me know how your Thanksgiving was and if you managed to maintain your new eating style.

hi not banded yet, i went to an info session the day before thanksgiving.from 9-11:00 came home an cook thanksgiving dinner.with my daughter, that day at the session i weigh 284.8 pounds another 13 lbs lost, so since april total of 40lbs trying to keep it off but thanksgiving i had a piece of apple pie

turkey

stuffing

collardgreens

sweetpotato pie

potato salad so i indulge in samples only did,nt get to greedy. put it on an 6" small plate. then got on my bike an work out.for thirty minutes,hope that help me . my goodness it,s thanksgiving it,s ok but only in moderation, hope to get banded in dec.

HI Ezma,

YOu sound like you did WAY better than I did...I ate everything in much larger portions, PB'd (something I have RARELY done since I was banded) and went back again to the feeding trough. There was something seriously wrong with how my brain and stomach and band were acting...it wasn't my fault!!! (OK, I know it was, but it always feels better when you can blame someone/thing else!)

But back at the Y this morning (first time since last Tuesday), and back 'on the program'...let's see how long THIS lasts!

Glad to hear you had a family filled Thanksgiving, and hope that all is well.

I had a great thanksgiving. Although I had to work Wednesday through Sunday at the hospital, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

My family ate at 2pm, and I got there around 3:30pm after work. I had a small piece of turkey, a scoop of sweet potatos (taste like candy) and some Beans. I did eat a slice of pumpkin pie - but overall, not too bad.

It was funny thought, my big plate with a little bit of food on it. The whole family was looking at it, like, wtf?

I traveled to St. Louis to be with my sister and her family. The actual day of Thanksgiving went great. We started off running a 5K Turkey Trot which was awesome! Then we had a late dinner and I didn't feel like I overate. I enjoyed the different foods that we had, but didn't get uncomfortably full.

I was there for 9 days and in that time I ran 5K four times, did a 2.5 hour "Work out after you pig out" at the Y, also an aerobics class and a workout video a couple of times. I want to focus on that because I didn't do great on my eating for the last few days.

The worst night was my dd's b-day party. There were corn dogs, and breaded cheese sticks and funnel cakes, all home made. I felt like crap afterwards even though I didn't eat as much as I used to, it was still not the greatest choices.

I'm going to weigh in a couple of days to see what the damages are. My legs are swollen and I know my pounds are up. We'll see in a couple of days what happens.

I do feel good about the exercise. Now to keep it up!