What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

[Erin514]

I've been back on the LE diet for five weeks and I just had a couple of cheat days for a friend's wedding, so I want to try to stick to LE limits if possible this weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving). My mom is in town to visit so I want to do a big meal, though. So far I'm thinking:
Corn bread stuffing for everyone
Mashed potatoes for everyone
Stuffed chicken (not turkey) because only my mom and two sons will be eating it. DH has gone veggie with me.
Cranberry sauce.
Pumpkin pie (I'll make it with milk instead of cream, and I won't eat whipped cream on mine)

When I think about it, nothing is really LE incompatible as long as I don't heap a bunch of butter or gravy on my food.

What are your Thanksgiving plans for those of you on the LE diet? (Edit: to my fellow Canadians, or those Americans thinking of it very far in advance, lol)

[GirlieCat]

Hi Erin, Thanksgiving here in United States is still 7 weeks away so my first plan is to be pregnant by then. [emoji2]. BUT if not, I would go for a total cheat day and eat everything including meat. If you really don't want to cheat much, then just lower portions and be mindful of the heavy hitter items.

Yummy, can't wait.

[ThinkingofPink]

I'm in the US but I've been worried about the holidays coming up. On thanksgiving I go to my parents and my husbands parents houses so I'm eating huge meals all day long. I think the best I can do is just make smaller portions and still enjoy myself.

[foxtrotmama]

I've decided to just have a cheat day. Take a double dose of fibre and a cup of coffee before meals, and just have a good time. I'm not big on turkey to begin with, so I probably won't have much meat. But I sure am looking forward to my MIL's stuffing.

[Georgia_Peach]

I've been doing LE diet full vegetarian for 3 months now.
I fully intend to eat turkey dinner this weekend! I figure one cheat won't kill me!
But having said that my stomach has shrunk so much from 2 small meals a day that I'll prob just eat a small amount

Edit to say.. I'm still on fence about eating the actual turkey meat since I've been vegetarian for so long now

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[Wantanother2017]

Starving. That's what I'll be doing. [emoji38]


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[atomic sagebrush]

I have a Thanksgiving recipe thread on here somewhere, let me look it up.

[atomic sagebrush]

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...-dreaming.html

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanksgiving thread above^^^

Remember girls, cheating is not only allowed but encouraged. This gives your body a chance at nutrients it was lacking but more than that, it enables you to be around friends/relatives without them asking a bunch of questions and also avoiding the detail oriented stress that comes up when we are worried about making a secret plan on how to stick to diets in a crowd of people. Just eat normally that day! Maybe you mainly fill up on sides, have some turkey though!

[foxtrotmama]

So I ate as much as I wanted at two different Thanksgiving dinners and managed to come up a pound lighter today than on Friday.