Good morning and Happy post Thanksgiving.
Hope everyone had a blessed and safe holiday.
Mine was safe and I have many blessings to be thankful for, but it was stressed by the presence of certain family members who add a certain amount of drama to the proceedings,
But, I wanted to record that my weight the day of Thanksgiving was 223.4 and today it was 225.8.
Not wholly unexpected given that there were three kinds of stuffing to sample, two kinds of potatoes and pies and cakes galore.
But what was different this year is there was no guilt, no food obsession or uncontrollable cravings, no deals with myself (I'll eat this today and never eat it again!!) no, "I'll start my diet tomorrow.", no asking myself if I SHOULD eat this or that and my size 18 jeans were super loose before dinner and were still falling off me after dinner.
Will need to dig out. my old 16's and soon my 14's.
I ate a pretty normal amount of food. sampling many dishes. I did eat past the point of "appetite correction" because after all it IS Thanksgiving and some of the dishes don't get made very often. My window was longer than usual, but because of the ZOE experiments, my windows have been longer the last two week.
Regarding ZOE, I took off my blood sugar monitor yesterday morning. The monitor turned itself off in the morning as the 14 day experiment was over and I removed it. I'll await. my report (supposed to be delivered within 6-8 weeks!!
I'm excited to greet this day with peace and calm. The first post Thanksgiving day that I have greeted without any residual post Thanksgiving guilt.
I've already planned to attack left over Turkey and cranberry sauce when my window opens because that's what I want!! I ate a lot of stuffing and potatoes yesterday and my body craves the balance.
And pumpkin pie might make the cut too.
All of it "window worthy" and all of it delicious!
Blessings and be well,
-Michelle
