Awesome!

I had turkey, low carb cranberry sauce, an almond flour roll, and twice baked cauliflower. My blood sugar was 117 at 1 hour after eating, and 109 by 2 hours after eating. I'm thrilled! ONe more day to go!

I also baked 32 pumpkin pies, sampling no more than 1 tsp of raw pie dough, and I'm .3 lb away from the goal I set for my next doctor's visit next Friday.

I had turkey, green bean casserole, a few glasses of wine and a few servings of my low carb dessert and still got a small ketones reading from my ketostix! About 100g carbs probably. I was surprised to still be in ketosis!

It was a great day with 70F degrees outside today. I was going to get some bush hogging (mowing fields with a tractor pulling a rotary mower) and change the engine oil in some machines and test the back-up home generator.

It was 7:30 PM before I left the house for the first time to go for my daily walk. In short I was lazy today.

The turkey, green peas, cranberry, etc was almost as good as the family all eating at the same time.

I took the turkey, shredded cabbage sauteed in bacon grease, deviled eggs, and keto chocolate mousse, and that's what I ate. If I hadn't I'd have had only turkey. It seems like they laid out more carbage than usual too. Saboteurs, they are (always have been

Yesterday, I ordered a huge piece of prime rib, that I cut in half when it came to the table and ate about 9 oz., Salad, green beans, water. That was all good, and I don't feel like I did anything to derail my progress. yea me!

What annoyed me was my BF. He said he would diet with me when I started this, but after feeding him good LCHF dinners, he then raids the oreo cookies that are for my son! BF needs to lose at least 80 pounds, but he hasn't lost a pound in 6 mos. He complained that he was too fat to fit into his suits, that he was disgusted with himself. He was going to just stay home yesterday...blah. blah. Ok, Finally got him out the door, he ordered the lamb, with stuffing and mashed potatoes, salad.. Fine, his choice, one day Thanksgiving, whatever... Then we had to go to another party in the evening. I had a glass of wine, no food, I was actually still feeling full from all the prime rib. He loaded up on more stuffing, more squash, more turkey, cranberry sauce, then proceeded to eat a huge dessert, even after I said, don't you think you should slow down? I was pretty perturbed by the time we left, he was still picking at the carcass on the way out the door.

I'm doing this WOE for me, and I understand you can't force someone else to eat the way I do, or force them to diet. However, after the hard time he gave me just to get out the door and all his complaining.. it really irked me. I also resent making somewhat expensive meat based LCHF dinners for him, if he's just going to turn around and blow it on ice cream and cookies. How do I tell him, I can't help you if you won't help yourself and frankly I don't want to hear your complaining any more if you won't do something about it?

nicintime wrote: »

Frankly all I ate was turkey and black olives.

I had only chicken thighs, olives, and hard-boiled eggs!
(skipped the turkey and made my own chicken in a small dish since I'm on a Whole30 right now and there was sugar in the injection fluid :-/)

It was an awesome Tday! I took an entire keto meal to my daughter's and the keto food was gone. I literally had no food left to bring home. I think of the 10 people, I may have gotten 2 keto converts and everyone wanted the loaded cauliflower mash recipe. Making and then moving an entire Tday meal was extra work, but so worth it.

I finished only 42 cals over and on point for net carbs. Hubby did well too. Although it's not a meaningful number in such a short time, I "lost" .25lbs and hubby lost .4lbs since yesterday morning. Even if all we did was maintain, this may be the first Tday ever that we can say that.

Total success.

My Thanksgiving was awesome .....45 guest at my house .....cooked for the past 3 days which wore me out ...I didn't track yesterday because I wanted to enjoy my company instead of tracking calories .....I ate prime rib, some turkey , bacon and smoked gouda cauiflower mash , a couple of bites of cornbread stuffing , aspargus wrapped in proscuitto a few apps ....a sliced of chocolate cream pie with oreo crust (which didn't agree with me and my tummy still hurts this mornings ) This was my 1st LCHF holiday so overall I didn't do to bad and I am only up 2 lbs as of this morning

2nd Thanksgiving (we always gather with extended family the day after Thanksgiving) at a Slovenian - those of you familiar with that culture know it typically means high carb. Managed to eat a filling meal & have two glasses of wine for around 20 carbs. My peak blood glucose: 117.

Highly motivated, for now, since it's still less than 2 months since my diabetes diagnosis...next year will be more challenging!

I had a small amount of mashed potatoes and stuffing and butternut squash. I loaded up on the turkey and green salad. I skipped bread and dessert. Had one glass of wine. I am down 1.4 pounds on the scale today. I am now only 1.6 pounds heavier than my lowest "over 40 years old" weight.

This was my first Thanksgiving on LCHF. Went to my wife's relatives, and brought no food of my own. Carbs were no problem for me until...... the dreaded dessert. I wish that stuff made me sick to look at - but instead I just salivated & rationalized it. Had about half as much as I ordinarily would. More holiday eating the next day, and the day after that. Lower carb than in past years, but certainly could have been lower. But the great news is that after this 3 day food festival, my weight was unchanged. I'm motivated to bring in the new year with no extra pounds!

It was ok. We had cornish game hens (except for my vegetarian 11 year old girl). I made the usual suspects (mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, rolls, etc.). I ate very small portions of the higher carb things and focused on the hen and green beans. I also made myself what I thought was a low carb pumpkin pie (ended up the sweetener was higher carb than I realized). So for a first attempt I ended up around 155 carbs which is significantly better than my past. It was a struggle and the 'should-be-low-carb-pumpkin pie' was annoying. I still ate it because I went to the trouble of making it. It was good...just wish I paid better attention to the labels. Hopefully Christmas will be easier lol.

It was boring.

I ate turkey and 5 black olives and stayed on plan.

Next year it will be a huge tender steak, grilled low carb veggies, and maybe a low carb dessert.

In a weird way I'm lucky to have celiac disease. I think it would be a lot easier for me to rationalize a little dessert otherwise. I still have to use willpower when it comes to mashed potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, ice cream, and the like but at least the cakes, pies, and dinner rolls are totally out of the equation for me.

Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »

I definitely went overboard on wine.

The adult beverages were my downfall too! I did well on my food though. Skipped mashed potatoes, bread and stuffing. Had my turkey, squashes,green beans and small slice of low carb cheesecake.