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Is anyone else kinda nervous about Thanksgiving and Christmas? This is my first holiday season as a bandster, so I'm kinda scared. Any advice? Thanks!

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This is my first holiday season with the band. I am at full restriction too. Gonna have to be careful and chew chew chew.

Thankfully I do most of the cooking so no time to eat lol

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My family go out for lunch most years, but this year I said that it would be silly of me to come cause I won't be eating much and its $150 per person, luckily I never have to pay. Also my family Celebrate it on the Gold Coast which is a three hour drive each way. My husbands family always have us over the day after Christmas which I think i'll get out of by saying I have organized to visit my family that day, I never like the spread they put on its always disgusting and most of the time they give you jelly, custard, tin fruit and cream for desert which I really hate, but their sweets after desert are to die for. If I could just skip to the sweets i'd go but they don't know i'm banded and never will. I am not going to buy any Christmas food because I know I will eat it and I figure everyone else will have Christmas food. I just adore Christmas food, fruit mince pies, stollen, ginger bread, christmas cake with marzapan & thick icing, plum pudding with brandy custard, Glühwein, i'm going to miss it going straight to my thighs this year. Oh well. I figure seeing as I am not a big fan of Christianity I shouldn't be doing the christmas thing anyway, but I do believe in Santa Clause and i've been an extremely good girl this year so I will be accepting all presents and cash.

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