Sharon in Colorado
11-07-2005, 12:18 AM
We have family here and I prepared an early Thanksgiving dinner. My mom and I worked hard in the kitchen. I made the pesto stuffed mushrooms and the raw potatoes and gravy (my own recipe). Made all sorts of cooked dishes, the whole spread. It was pretty exhausting.
Bottom line: I didn't even want anything. I don't know why but I thought it was great not to even want anything. Last year, I wanted all the veggie and starch dishes, and even ate the cooked pie, instead of the 2 raw ones I had made.
This time, I just ate my mushroom, picked at my mashed taters, and ate a few carrots and brocolli stalks and felt fine. Hardly felt hungry. Everyone else was stuffed and sick and not wanting dessert, but I felt the same as before I started.
I thought it was great - temptation right in the face with preparing this huge cooked meal all day and not one ounce of a battle of will power.
Bottom line: I didn't even want anything. I don't know why but I thought it was great not to even want anything. Last year, I wanted all the veggie and starch dishes, and even ate the cooked pie, instead of the 2 raw ones I had made.
This time, I just ate my mushroom, picked at my mashed taters, and ate a few carrots and brocolli stalks and felt fine. Hardly felt hungry. Everyone else was stuffed and sick and not wanting dessert, but I felt the same as before I started.
I thought it was great - temptation right in the face with preparing this huge cooked meal all day and not one ounce of a battle of will power.