Another holiday--what's your plan?

We're having Easter brunch at my mothers, and Easter dinner at DH's
parents. This is gonna be one tough day.

For those of you who celebrate Easter, how will you incorporate your WOE
into the day?

And how do you manage to stay out of the kid's baskets (my biggest
weakness...)?

Amy

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:05:36 -0500, A Ross
wrote:

We're having Easter brunch at my mothers, and Easter dinner at DH's
parents. This is gonna be one tough day.

For those of you who celebrate Easter, how will you incorporate your WOE
into the day?

And how do you manage to stay out of the kid's baskets (my biggest
weakness...)?

Amy

Well, DH and I are going out to brunch, and I plan to eat whatever I
want :-). And then I'll go back to my normal WOE. Works fine for me;
I won't gain any weight.

But I don't have kids' Easter baskets to content with. Maybe you
could get the kid to hide it :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

"A Ross" wrote in message
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We're having Easter brunch at my mothers, and Easter dinner at DH's
parents. This is gonna be one tough day.

For those of you who celebrate Easter, how will you incorporate your WOE
into the day?

And how do you manage to stay out of the kid's baskets (my biggest
weakness...)?

Amy

We normally eat out so I don't have to deal with leftovers in the house. My
kids are adults so I don't have to deal with candy in the house. Even when
they were kids they didn't receive a lot of candy in their basket. They
received small holiday related toys, etc. My main problem was keeping them
from eating too many of the hard boiled eggs. I often talked them into
doing egg salad or deviled eggs the next day.

Here's a humerous site about one of the traditional Easter candies you might
enjoy.
http://www.peepresearch.org/index.html

Beverly

"A Ross" wrote in message
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We're having Easter brunch at my mothers, and Easter dinner at DH's
parents. This is gonna be one tough day.

For those of you who celebrate Easter, how will you incorporate your WOE
into the day?

And how do you manage to stay out of the kid's baskets (my biggest
weakness...)?

Amy

Like Chris, I allow myself to eat what I want to eat during celebrations,
and then go back to eating normally the next day. After all, what? I'm not
going to enjoy Thanksgiving or other holiday meals over the next 40 years of
my life? No way! I don't even want to live like that! I enjoy my
healthy way of eating, but I also enjoy birthdays w/ chocolate cake, eating
way too much turkey and then napping on Thanksgiving, and tiny chocolate
eggs on Easter.

About those chocolate eggs... I do try to limit myself, somewhat, with the
"bad and evil" foods, like chips, chocolate, ice cream. I give myself what
the bag says is 1 serving, and I count that into Fit day, and I don't have
any more... unless I decide to have 2 servings.

The goal, for me, is to ENJOY the foods, and not get caught up in BS guilt.
I'm not my parent and I'm not a child; therefore, guilt has no place in my
relationship to food.

Enjoy the holiday, Amy, and have a chocolate goodie for me! (we're Jewish
around here and I see no evidence of chocolate--egg, bunny
otherwise...sigh...

Heidi
262/220/219
Losing 100lbs. 1 lb. at a time.
Start 10/24/04

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"Heidi" wrote:

"A Ross" wrote in message
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For those of you who celebrate Easter, how will you incorporate your WOE
into the day?

Amy

Like Chris, I allow myself to eat what I want to eat during celebrations,
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Enjoy the holiday, Amy, and have a chocolate goodie for me! (we're Jewish
around here and I see no evidence of chocolate--egg, bunny
otherwise...sigh...

Heidi
262/220/219
Losing 100lbs. 1 lb. at a time.
Start 10/24/04

That's pretty much my approach. I eat what I want, while still trying to
keep the portion sizes within a normal range. My best trick is to serve
myself a portion of everything at table with a teaspoon. Those little
dabs really add up in a hurry, I get to taste all of the goodies, I'm
full, and nobody makes any snide comments about what I am or am not
eating.

I will have a nibble of bunny ear just for you. And a hard-boiled egg.
mmm--eggs and chocolate.

Amy

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Chris Braun wrote:


But I don't have kids' Easter baskets to content with. Maybe you
could get the kid to hide it :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I'm beginning to think maybe we'll cut down on the chocolate this year.
I did buy some peeps, but they don't call to me like the bunnies and
robins eggs (malted milk with candy coating) do.

Amy

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:56:27 -0500, A Ross
wrote:

In article ,
Chris Braun wrote:


But I don't have kids' Easter baskets to content with. Maybe you
could get the kid to hide it :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I'm beginning to think maybe we'll cut down on the chocolate this year.
I did buy some peeps, but they don't call to me like the bunnies and
robins eggs (malted milk with candy coating) do.

Amy

I could have a houseful of Peeps and never eat one. That's pretty
true of most non-chocolate candies, unless I'm starving :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

Chris Braun wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:56:27 -0500, A Ross
wrote:

In article ,
Chris Braun wrote:


But I don't have kids' Easter baskets to content with. Maybe you
could get the kid to hide it :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I'm beginning to think maybe we'll cut down on the chocolate this
year.
I did buy some peeps, but they don't call to me like the bunnies and

robins eggs (malted milk with candy coating) do.

Amy

I could have a houseful of Peeps and never eat one. That's pretty
true of most non-chocolate candies, unless I'm starving :-).


The best thing to do with Peeps?

Put them in the microwave, it's the coolest thing. They expand and then
collapse. Very entertaining.

Martha

Leafing through alt.support.diet, I read a message from
of 25 Mar 2005:

The best thing to do with Peeps?

Put them in the microwave, it's the coolest thing. They expand and
then collapse. Very entertaining.

Martha

They'd be fun in a seal-a-meal container too!

Before I try this, please tell me what are "peeps?"

Phil M.

--
Don't quit when the hill is steepest,
For your goal is almost nigh;
Don't quit, for you're not a failure
UNTIL YOU FAIL TO TRY."

--Jill Wolf

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Chris Braun wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:56:27 -0500, A Ross
wrote:

In article ,
Chris Braun wrote:


But I don't have kids' Easter baskets to content with. Maybe you
could get the kid to hide it :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I'm beginning to think maybe we'll cut down on the chocolate this
year.
I did buy some peeps, but they don't call to me like the bunnies and

robins eggs (malted milk with candy coating) do.

Amy

I could have a houseful of Peeps and never eat one. That's pretty
true of most non-chocolate candies, unless I'm starving :-).


The best thing to do with Peeps?

Put them in the microwave, it's the coolest thing. They expand and then
collapse. Very entertaining.

Martha

They'd be fun in a seal-a-meal container too!

Heidi