Lauren,
Sorry to hear about you mil's break. I'm sending healing prayers her way.

Thanks for your words--having a plan is vital.

I make Thanksgiving--friends and family will be here--not too big--around 9 adults and 3 toddlers. should be lots of fun. I am going to make a splenda cranberry sauce for 0 calories after I read the number of calories for a regular sauce. Everything else I am making is high caloric and high fat. My plan is to stay core, use all 35 points on Thanksgiving and be very careful for the rest of the week. I know I can do it. Very important for me to cook while my family is here--lower the number of take out foods--and enjoy their company. The kids are great and their babies are just darling.

Everybody have a lovely Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for.

:high: to all of us~~we are a great bunch of people. Here's to more and more support as time goes by. My Thanksgiving challenge wasn't as great as I wanted, but on to Christmas Challenge.

Love and :goodvibes:
Judy

Hi ladies,

Is this month flying by or what?

I'm sneaking something under my personal radar...four days in a row of exer...tread, Curves, 2 mi walk, Curves. Shhhhhh....I don't want to alarm myself into panic mode and wreck it...

Usually for Thanksgiving I have Chinese food. This is relic of my single days, when I think I made it non-traditional so it wouldn't be lonely (at first), and then it was my own tradition. Lauren, your description of your meal makes me think I might break with tradition this year, go for something really lovely and fresh.

One personal tradition I'm keeping is writing my gratitude for the past year and goals for the next year on Thanksgiving. Judy's right, we have so much to be thankful for!

I saw this acronym at e-diets...I think I saw it at ww before: HALT, the reasons we turn to food (hungry, angry, lonely, thirsty). The HALT makes a good cue to stop and think why we might be about to put something in our mouths. Planning one of the biggest meals of the year with care seems like such a conscious way of eating. Thank you for reminding me to plan.

I think I will toss out a dancing banana, just for that! :cb:

Keep your water glass full...then emptied...then full...then emptied... ad aquium. :cheers:

choosie.

Hi everyone:

Been very busy up here - Santa Claus parade was Sat night & afterwards since bf is on committee we all went out for dinner, so that was fun. We are trying to get some Christmas decorating done since bf is away this Sun & Mon & the next Sun we are off to Las Vegas til Fri (I love Vegas - was there in April with the girls) so we have alot going on. Was down 2.4# at ww meeting last night so I was pleased with that.
Trying to get in my exercise but still making excuses about why not to.
Anyway sounds like you are all doing great, so keep up the good work & talk to you soon. Bye for now.

Hi Turtles,
Wow, Bandit! What a great weight loss. Weigh to go. Keep up the good work. It's cool that you and bf are involved in so many community activities. :bravo:

Yes, the HALT message has been around but it is so good it bears repeating. I heard it almost 30 years ago with another weight loss program. (yes, I've been "trying" to lose weight all that time). The way I heard it was never let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. I like the thirsty message because I do often find that a drink of water or any beverage can stop the hunger cravings. I also have misled myself into thinking I'm hungry when I really just need a nap, so tired fits in there too.
Am cooking for Thanksgiving today. Went to WI this morning and was disappointed to see that weight hadn't budged. At home it looked like I had lost about a pound. Oh oh, not a good time of the year to be disappointed at the WW scale. Today's eating was okay OP~~not perfect, but quite good. Tonight I'll have an OP Core dinner and try to get to sleep early. DS and his toddlers got sick and can't make it for Thanksgiving. My poor ds took his only vacation for the year and both his kids and finally he got sick. Ugh. We'll miss him and I was hoping he could have a great time with us. We'll make this up to him somehow.

Choosie,
I'm whispering that it is wonderful that you got 4 straight days in the you know what!
That's fabulous and I remember that when you did this before the weight came off nicely. :cool:

You all take care, have a great Thanksgiving (Choosie~~Chinese food is innovative)
and I hope you find yourselves with friends and family that you care about. Life is good. :grouphug:

Love,
Judy
234/212.6/thinner on way to onederland :high:

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

By now (a little after 6:00 p.m. Central Time), everyone has probably at least started eating. I've been done for a while and I did pretty well.

Lauren - Sorry to hear about your M-I-L. So sweet of you to go and see after her.

Choosie - congratulations of your exercise. i'm typing all lowercase letters so as not to let your body know what you're up to. shhhhhhhh! how is the tutoring going?

Judy - WW was open today? Where are you? I've never heard of a WW meeting on a holiday. Enjoy your family's visits!

Only 5 weeks until the New Year. Why wait until then to resolve to lose weight when you can do that now? (I'm giving myself a pep talk and letting you all listen). Several of us are close to onederland. Anyone want to join me in being at or less than 200 by the New Year?

I am realizing more and more that I am fed up with my weight. I do not want to become comfortable at this weight (or, God forbid, at any higher weight). I just need to do it before I have health problems.

Take care!

Hi Turtles,
great to hear from you all.

Swania,
I must have goofed somehow because I went to a WW's mtg. on Wed. before Thanksgiving. I know about that "comfortable" thing and I don't want to stay here either. I've been toying with this weight too long, but stuff keeps getting in my way.
I learn to correct one behavior and another pops up in its place. However, I'm with you on the challenge. With 5 weeks to go, I pledge to be down 5#. That won't put me in onederland, but it'll get me closer than I've been in a long time and it will put me in my red skinny blouse. Count me in. :high:

Thanksgiving was lovely and I'm okay today--not perfect, but working on it.

Good luck and :goodvibes: to us all.
Love,
Judy