Please place your gifts on the side table (or PayPal). I'm kidding! Unless refusing gifts insults you. If it does then please indulge! I don't want any hurt feelings.
I celebrated six months of commitment in the gym this morning- starting the festivities with my traditional weigh-in. The scale was nice to me today and reported a loss of a little over a pound from Monday. That little “+” sign next to the -101 represents a little wiggle room in preparation for tomorrow's gastro-fest.
I plan on enjoying tomorrow, albeit in moderation. These past six months have definitely shifted how I look at food, so while I'm looking forward to the shift in the menu, I'm not looking to engorge my belly. I'm doing most of the cooking and that actually helps; cooking kills my appetite... probably due to some sort of weird gestalt-thing I endured as a child. Regardless, I enjoy the whole cooking thing and will most likely be relying on some Tivo'd Food TV stuff for inspiration. For anyone interested, here's the menu:
Turkey - honey-brined then BBQ'd with apple-sage glaze (glaze per Bobby Flay). I did the same last year and it was really good.
Lamb - braised with herbs and vegetables
Ginger mashed sweet potatoes
Green beens with cashews
Broccoli, tomato, avocado, and artichoke heart salad with basalmic vinegar
Fruit Fluff (my 11-year-old daughter's recipe)
Assorted raw vegetables
Pies- pumpkin, apple, and chocolate pecan
Not a lot of “diet food” here and looking back over the last six months, I really haven't eaten anything you'd call diet food. I've learned that portion control and moderate exercise are what really works for me- and I've stuck to it. I will continue to do so because I really like the difference it has made in the quality of my life. I've got a little more than six months (and 49 lbs.) to reach my weight goal and I really feel like I'm “over the hump”. Not that it's going to get any easier but I don't think it'll get any harder either.
That's the thing, I guess. With me it's primarily an attitude thing. It really hasn't been that hard (once I got past the first month or so). It was just a process of instilling a new set of habits; eating less more often, exercising REGULARLY, and relying on myself for primary motivation while using the encouragement of others for added “kick”. Simple? Yes. Easy? More so every day. I started all this with a simple caloric equation that's getting me closer to equilibrium. It's my New Math and I think I'm getting it figured out.
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With all the food we've made for the meal, I decided it would be a good idea to do things a little differently. Usually we pile all the serving dishes on the table and on a large cart we wheel up to the table. It's a fairly impressive display and oh-so convenient. That kind of within-reach convenience makes it pretty easy to keep your plate full.
This year I'm going to serve dinner in courses rather than all at once. We'll have a salad course, and I was thinking about throwing in some pumpkin soup for a soup course. Then we'll serve the entrees and sides. I plan to spread things out over time to let our heads catch up to our stomaches fulness perception-wise before each subsequent course.
I'm curious as to how others cope with food on the holidays. Please let me know.
Congrats on a fabulous six months!!!
Your menu looks fabulous!
As to how I cope with food on the holidays, its easy...I eat it...in moderation of course. I also make sure I take a long walk/jog in the morning up to the corner for a newspaper to check out all of the great black Friday deals. Then in the evening another walk/jog. I think seeing or cooking all of that food can be overwhelming I just keep in mind that its NOT my job to eat it all. Others must help.