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How is everyone handling Easter? We usually go out each year-will this be the end of my Easter Dinners?:unsure:

Nope, not unless you want it to be :)

The thing i love about the band is that it lets me enjoy holidays-- but at a reasonable amount. Take a bite or two of everything you love, enjoy it, and you'll stop before you get so stuffed you have to take a nap.

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Nope, not unless you want it to be :)

The thing i love about the band is that it lets me enjoy holidays-- but at a reasonable amount. Take a bite or two of everything you love, enjoy it, and you'll stop before you get so stuffed you have to take a nap.

And then the next day go back to your regular eating plan. Simple.

Dave

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yea, just don't go crazy! I go out all the time, I just allow myself no more than half of the dish I order. And I try to make it something some what healthy.

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Sure, go out, and if its sit down, ask for doggie boxes. You can share the remains at home. Or, if you go to a buffet, just get a little of what you like. I am having dinner at home. I will cook a ham, potato salad, anti-past, deviled eggs. I won't take too much of anything, but always eat off a dessert plate. I am, also, making a gluten free Breakfast casserole for before church, as we won't go until 11:00am. You can do it. It is not the end of living, you know! Karen

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I'm going to make some Easter basics for the family and some tatsy corned beef and cabbage Soup for me :D

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I LOVE this forum- I feel so much better after reading all the replies thanks and Happy Easter :D !

I'm with you on that one. I think I'd lose my mind and/or fail miserably without all the support I get from everyone on here. Happy Easter to everyone!

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As a diabetic, there is no such thing as going of my diet because it's not a diet. It's the way I have to eat unless I want to be right back on my insulin again.

So we're having baked ham, roasted asparagus (drizzled with olive oil, Kosher salt and cracked pepper), deviled eggs, baby potatoes and homemade rolls (both only for others) and a cherry pie for the troops and a cupcake sized mini sugar free cheesecake (homemade) for me.

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ElfiePoo, you are making me hungry :D That roasted asparagus sounds lovely, I'll have to try that!

I was on my pre-op diet for Christmas AND nobody but my husband knew I was about to have surgery (they still don't know that I had it). I felt a little deprived but it was the first Christmas that I ever lost weight. What I learned, though, was to focus on the other parts of it than food...,the family, providing good hospitality, my kids, etc. For once Christmas was not about getting so stuffed I would have to roll away from the table! And it wasn't so bad. I guess it kind of depends what headspace you are in but if you teach yourself to focus and enjoy the other aspects, even while you're out at the restaurant, you can get through it. And of course, have a little bit of the good stuff too, just set a reasonable limit.

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