EASTER's coming. Are you ready?

GreyGhostHunter

GreyGhostHunter

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So with Easter coming up this Sunday, how do you deal with Easter Dinner and still stay on your diet?

Granted I know you can make Easter Sunday your cheat day. But with all that food available how are you going to stop yourself from over doing it? Espically when Aunt Bea puts on the guilt trip cause you won't try here 1000 calorie, 90 gram fat (insert dessert name here) dessert.

How do you get thru Easter dinner without pissing off the person/people that "SLAVED OVER THE STOVE ALL DAY TO COOK YOU THIS MEAL" and still keep within your limits?
 
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I forgot all about Easter.. time to go buy my kids their stuff lol..
As for Easter dinner I just eat in moderation.. have a little of everything so nobody can say "you are not eating".

However my family no longer does get to gethers so it will probably be just normal dine for the family that evening.
 
Just take less of everything, and more variety. That way you've tried everything.

Though honestly, I don't care. I eat whatever I want-it's not as though my weight loss has a deadline.
 
My mom-in-law's cooking, and I really don't care about insulting her. That's my secret! Ha ha. Seriously though- she drenches everything in oil and coats it in salt. It's repulsive. And she wonders why she has blood pressure issues!
 
I'm not religious, so I don't celebrate Easter. (But do you celebrate Christmas, even though you're not religious, Chef? Yes, you're God damned right I do. I mean, you get presents!!!) Anyway...

This year is going to be kind of funny. I'm moving back to Cleveland on Monday. Since I won't need furniture, I have decided to donate it all to charity. No sense is keeping it in storage, so I'm just donating it. Anyway, the pick up crew is showing up on Saturday to take all of my furniture (couch, chairs, futon, bed, tables, etc). So, I'll have no furniture.

Also on Saturday, I'm getting my cable TV, phone and internet services shut off. So, I won't have much to do. So, on Easter Sunday, I'll be sitting in my apartment, full of boxes and absent of furniture, having no TV to watch or internet to browse. I guess I might have to READ or something.

Oh, and I'll probably just eat a sandwich. Nothing special. No ham or whatever people usually eat on Easter for me.
 
I think we are planning on having some sockeye salmon for Easter. We are a small nuclear family, and our families are 6 hours away, so we don't tend to go in for big holiday dinners.

Our tradition, chocolate-wise, is to make an Easter cake, rather than buying a lot of chocolate eggs and stuff.
 
Cord the Seeker said:
I think we are planning on having some sockeye salmon for Easter. We are a small nuclear family, and our families are 6 hours away, so we don't tend to go in for big holiday dinners.

Our tradition, chocolate-wise, is to make an Easter cake, rather than buying a lot of chocolate eggs and stuff.
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Sockeye is awesome. The color is beautiful too. Mmm, sooooockeeeeeye...:drool5:
 
I'll be at my parents house this weekend, and we're having relatives over. I have a lot of younger cousins so it usually involves easter egg hunts with candy on the inside. And lots of desserts and yummy casserole (Im from the mid-west yayy tator tot hot dish and green bean casserole and Broccoli cheese casserole!) Nom Nom! I'll prolly just go all out and eat all the yummy food and then feel bad about it late,r but Im gunna make a concious effort to watch what I eat! :bigear:
 
Ha I don't even wanna think about it! My boyfriend's Grandma has brunch at her house after church, at like 1 pm. Then my Mother serves dinner at like 6. We're supposed to go to his Godmother's house for dinner at 3, but he said we might skip that...and I'm secretly hoping we do because I cannot take three of those meals in one day! I guess it'll be cheat day...
 
Going to my in-laws isn't' really a problem. I don't tend to overeat with them much. Now, if it were my family...oh gosh. They make the things I like but my husbands side is kinda bland, I think. They will have pork probably, which I don't eat and mash potatoes. I'm really not sure but I don't think it'll be an issue. Today I've eaten like a total pig at home. ugh.
 
Its just my family, our extended family doesnt like us so..makes it easy lmao. or they live further away. like, across state.

We eat ham. And potato salad. And lemon merangue pie [which i only eat the lemon part, not the crust or the egg whites]. Oh and awesome homemade rolls, mmmm.

Lucky me tho, I suck at holiday dinners, I don't eat much of it at all because something about all those food smells makes me sick to my stomach and full on fumes. haha.
 
This year it's just my immediate family so there's not going to be a million tempting things from Aunt ___ and Grandma____ or anything like that. I'm really not a fan of most components of easter dinner(potato salad=yuck, sweet potatoes drenched in sugar and butter=yuck, cheese covered vegetables=yuck, and so on), so I'll just be eating the ham and beans, and maybe a home made roll. For dessert my mother is making chocolate crème brûlée (which I am CERTAINLY having my portion of) but it's all going to be planned in. Being that I am the youngest in my family(15), there won't be any chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies, or any of that kid easter basket stuff lying around. All in all, I'm not worried in the slightest. :)
 
I'm working this year, but even back home we never had a special dinner or anything. We basically lived on home made hot cross buns on good Friday though. None of the home mad eones this year though :(
Being at work, and not having a choice in meals (staff meals) I just pick at and use the "leave something on the plate" theory because they always pile it up.
 
I was just at the inlaws last night and my mother-in-law mentioned that I am going to love the choc. cake that she is making. I told her no I won't because I don't plan on eating it.

Then she made a comment that once I see it, I'll eat it. I again told her that I WASN'T going to eat it no matter what it looked like. It was like she is doing everything she can to make me blow my diet out. This coming with her knowing that I'm on a diet and that for the past 3 months have been working my ass off to get where I am today. Nice support eh.
 
I'm just going to eat as I have been eating. I don't think people should be pressured to not follow their diet just because it's a holiday.
 
I don't celebreate Easter, which makes things very easy. And nobody in my family makes easter dinners or whatever, so that's not a problem either. Apart from that, they can't cook anyway....*lol*
 
simple i dont eat with my family lol......its my dads easter baskets that he still makes for all us kids..packed with my favorite.....peanut butter and chocolate shaped eggs...reeses mmmmmmmm
 
Disciple said:
simple i dont eat with my family lol......its my dads easter baskets that he still makes for all us kids..packed with my favorite.....peanut butter and chocolate shaped eggs...reeses mmmmmmmm
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lol, tell him to pack your easter basket with fruits and veggies!!
 
My problem is I LOVE CANDY!

I love it. It's one of the best things in the world, to me. Oh, and there's no moderation when it comes to candy, it's all or none.

I'm usually pretty good about it. I have candy from my birthday 2 years ago sitting around my house. Candy from past Christmases, even. I know, it's kind of gross...but to me, no candy is too old to eat.

I should get rid of it all, but I feel bad because it was a gift, hahahaha
 
GreyGhostHunter said:
So with Easter coming up this Sunday, how do you deal with Easter Dinner and still stay on your diet?

Granted I know you can make Easter Sunday your cheat day. But with all that food available how are you going to stop yourself from over doing it? Espically when Aunt Bea puts on the guilt trip cause you won't try here 1000 calorie, 90 gram fat (insert dessert name here) dessert.

How do you get thru Easter dinner without pissing off the person/people that "SLAVED OVER THE STOVE ALL DAY TO COOK YOU THIS MEAL" and still keep within your limits?
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I am still polite, but it is THEIR problem if they get all pissed off. (I can't please everyone, as I've tried doing in the past)

I have seen other family members who were dieting/trying to eat better, and only taking smaller portions, or no-thanking dessert. They still commented on the great plate of food.

One could always ask to take some home with them because of all the awesomeness!!! (It could be your meal the day after)

I guess it all depends on the family, and yourself for that matter. I know this may be easier said than done, but I think it is rude of them to try to single someone out and force something on them. If a person has said no thank you, than that's that.

I hope your family dinner Rocks!!:seeya:
 
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