Thanksgiving!!

Ahhhh, that time of year.   I've already written once about the "holidays" in general, but now here I am.....staring directly down the barrel of the caloric equivalent of an assault rifle:  Thanksgiving. 

Thanksgiving differs from Christmas in which there might be a lot of indulging going on, but the general idea is to celebrate the season by surrounding yourself with family, giving gifts, singing carols, and just trying to be nicer to people and getting into the "spirit" of the holidays.   None of that feel-good stuff applies to Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving is about the food. Pure and simple.

If Thanksgiving were to fall at the beginning of this blog when I was still considering myself "on a diet" I would have been completely dreading tomorrow.  I would have limited myself to exactly 1200 calories a day....which is basically the equivalent of a little bit of turkey, a sad scoop of plain rice, some lonely veggies cooked without the Thanksgiving-requisite bacon and butter, and a puny glass--okay bottle, it is a holiday afterall--of wine.  Forget gravy.

But I am not on a diet anymore. I have made a lifestyle change.....a lifestyle change that, I might add, has allowed me to already lose the equivalent of both of the 13 pound turkeys I am cooking for the family tomorrow.

Yes, that's right. This morning at 135.4, I've lost over 26 pounds which is the equivalent of TWO decent sized turkeys.    Holy crap!

I didn't get here by being completely miserable either. Now that I am a bona-fide WOP, I have basically been able to eat whatever I want.  Not all the time, of course.  But there are enough times when I do get to eat what I want that I don't feel deprived at all anymore.  I am....dare I say it....happy with my lifestyle.

Tomorrow, being a holiday, is an obvious occasion in which to indulge.  The gym is closed, but I'll go on a nice long walk/jog in the morning to try to stave off some of the damage and I'll hit the gym longer than usual on Friday to keep making up for it.

On a typical weekend I might indulge in some pizza or pasta, but this weekend I'll just have to take it easy to make room for the Thanksgiving feast.

It's not so bad!

Oh, and obviously, I will be doing this week's weigh in tomorrow instead of Friday.....because subjecting myself to a public weigh-in the day after Thanksgiving is, ya know, just....not fair.