I hope all the Thanksgiving celebrants had a wonderful time yesterday! We spent the day with a small group of family and friends. We had a great time playing games (We taught Jeff's folks how to bowl on the Wii. His father went undefeated from game 1! It was hilarious.), talking, laughing, and of course, eating.

I determined early on that I wasn't going to deny myself anything. I would at least taste everything on the table, so that I wouldn't feel deprived. This strategy worked very well for me. Although I am 1/2 pound heavier than I was on Wednesday, I'm still down 1.5 pounds from last Friday! 159.5 today.

This morning I was back on track, weighing and measuring my breakfast and lunch.

I was chatting with one of the gals in my office who is a lifetime WeightWatchers member. She told me that her strategy with holidays is to remember that even if she has a really really off-plan day on a holiday, that it's just one day. The trick is to get up the next morning and get back on the program. To not let one off-plan day entirely derail you. To not feel like you've "failed" and then quit.

I realized that I've done that in the past. Ate something I shouldn't, and then said "screw it! I've already messed it up, I may as well eat this *other* bad thing", etc. etc. Such a self-defeating attitude. I'm determined to do better this time around.

Hope everyone is safe, healthy and happy.

Susan