Post Thanksgiving

Wow. It snowed over the weekend, about 4 inches. It snowed yesterday, at least two inches. This time last year we were wondering if we really would get a white Christmas, but the snow is here earlier.

I don't really like this much snow. Or maybe, it's the fact that I don't like the gray days that go with it.

Thanksgiving was amazingly good. This time last year, my youngest son picked a fight with me so he could spend the day with his girlfriend. My oldest son was busy in the last stages of his relationship with his high school sweetheart, and there was alot of tension between the two of them.

This Thanksgiving, I was really prepared to have it just be my hubby and me, but lo and behold, both boys showed up for dinner, nobody fought with anybody, and I couldn't have had a nicer Thanksgiving day. First time I'd seen older son in about three months, and he's learning the hard truth about the difference between dreaming about something and having to work for things. Working I think is starting to win. We let him know we loved him, and he can come home if it gets too hard, but I suspect he'll only come home if something really bad happens. He also found out that owing us 450 dollars doesn't mean he's not welcome here. He's been missed. I could tell by the son-shaped hole he filled so perfectly when he came over.

Weight. Well, I spent all month, maybe 6 weeks yoyoing. Before Halloween I dropped 5 lbs in one week (don't know why, I wasn't doing anything differently), but it came back to yoyo between 195-191 all month. Then it began to get a little better. yoyoing between 193-190. Then today I step on the scale, 189. And that after Thanksgiving.
That is good. I am still eating between 1200-1500 cals a day, which should be the optimal range for my weightloss.

On Thanksgiving, I didn't eat obsessively, nor did I eat food choices that are really bad for me. But on Thanksgiving day, I gave myself permission to eat like it was a celebration day, but not stupidly. I think I ate between 2000-2200 cals. I had some small wedges of pumkin pie, about half an inch thick. I discovered mixing sugar and fat free pudding to either non-fat plain yogurt or low cal soy milk. This I had to put a stop to. The calorie count isn't bad, but I wanted it two times a day.

But I did make a nice faux blueberry cheesecake for thanksgiving with pudding mix, lite coolwhip, NF yogurt, and frozen blueberries. I put it in a low fat graham cracker crust, but next time I make it, I will make it crust free, cause that adds a lot of calories. I have to admit I ate half of it on thanksgiving day but one of my sons did me the favor and ate the other half after I went to sleep.

We had roast goose, stovetop stuffing, boiled potatos, green beans. Hubby had a storebought pecan pie for him. We had some good bread. A nice dinner, with plenty, but nothing that would cause too much problem later.

Strategies for sensible living. After living like this for something like 9 months, I believe, it's become a way of life. May it continue to be so.