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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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!

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