HOW I SURVIVED MY FIRST THANKSGIVING

So, I “survived” my first Thanksgiving as an ITKarian. It really wasn’t bad. I went from my lowest weight of 201 lbs to 203.8 lbs. In fact, I would easily replace the word survive with thrive. Here are a few lessons that I have learned and a few thoughts and suggestions:

1. If you let people know ahead of time about your dietary limitations, they are often willing to accommodate. I told my wife’s family that I couldn’t eat the sweets or the high starch sides. They were quite happy to prepare green beans and plain sweet potato for my sides. They left the stuffing rolls and high sugar sweet potato casserole to everyone else.

2. Some people poked fun at me, but it was okay. I didn’t really care because at the end of the day they realized that they don’t have the discipline that I have to improve my health and would not see the results that I see because they’re not willing to do what I do.

3. Preparing my own food helped with controlling the ingredients and making sure that I could keep it as healthy as possible. There are a lot of healthy recipes out there that tastes just as good as the high fat high sugar stuff.

4. Saving my pie for the morning is great. Sweet stuff doesn’t taste as delicious anymore, so only pumpkin pie was of interest to me.

5. I love routine, my body loves routine. After the first day, my body wanted to be back on my ITK meal assignment and schedule. This actually served as a major deterrent to slide out of my diet.

ITK Member
Gregory Mundy
West Virginia

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