Too Many Holiday Parties!

Jan 05, 2018

I need to vent, lol.

I am a person who loves solitude and I need control over the foods in my environment.  My family are a bunch of party animals who love food, love feeding people, and are super generous.  

For the entire month of December and all of January so far, this house has been filled with home baked cookies of every kind imaginable, including several varieties of sugar free cookies made just for me (thanks, Mom), pies, cakes, cheese cakes, chips, chocolates, nuts, pizza, Italian pastries, pasta...enough to feed an army.

Just when I think it's over, they throw another party and the house is full of people eating.  The dining room table is covered in food, and so is every other surface, including folding tables. There's nowhere to get away.

For a food addict like me, the tempations are awful.

I made it through though, and I think yesterday was the last party.  It was a last minute unexpected party, thrown together at the last minute and even though I made it through all of the other parties without too much issue, last night I was talking to my cousin and grabbed and ate some chocolate without even thinking about it and oh my gosh, what a bad idea. I have no idea why I did that.  I know I can't have chocolate. It was right in front of me and I just did it automatically, I guess.  I wasn't even thinking about it or craving it; I just did it.

I felt nauseated, dizzy, hot...dumping is real. I didn't eat enough to actually get sick but I felt awful.  Bleah.

Weight wise, I held my own.  I did gain a bit over Christmas week but lost it plus a bit more again, but I am so happy that it's finally over, and am praying that this time, I'm right that it's finally over and the family won't plan another impromptu party here.

It's easy to avoid parties at other people's houses, but when they're here, there's no avoiding them.  My Mom is Italian and parties mean food to her, and plenty of it, all of it fattening.

It was nice to see everyone, but OMG, I'm so glad to just have a quiet house again.  The food is stil here though.  I hate that.

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