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I wrote this blog last year. It's still relevant

I hate writing about myself but I certainly like to ramble about either the odd day to day things that make up my life or the blow off the steam that fills this volatile head of mine sometimes.

I shall start with that wonderful day of gluttony we call Thanksgiving or , as we in my family like to call it, "Turkey day."

Now I could go on about the history about the day but I will go on about my favourite part the food.

Food my secret lover. For years our relationship has been on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs, diets and binges, weeks of salads over breadsticks and days of poptart breakfasts followed by neat and tidy popcorn dinners.

Let me frame the situation by saying I, in no means, am ever going to be a size zero, but when I stepped on the scale again a month ago I almost hit the floor. I am not going to say the exact weight right now, but let me tell you if I continued the way I was going I was swiftly on my way to becoming one of those people you see that need the wall of their house torn down when they die just to bury them in a piano box.

So I immediately set up an appointment with a dietician. I knew that If i was going to lose weight I couldn't crash diet. I needed to go slowly and make small changes. I explained my situation to her and she understood.
She told me I wasn't eating enough. Go figure.

I took the small of advice she gave me and made the small changes. Soon the weight started to come off and I quickly dropped 10 pounds.

Then came "Turkey Day."

I figure one cheat day wouldn't hurt.
I don't eat meat so I forwent the actual turkey itself and helped myself to all the trimmings: Vegetables, potatoes, stuffing, and pie Oh my! The Pie.
I knew I was full when I reached for that first piece but it was my mother's apple pie, so I needed two full helpings.

Now I felt gross.

I relinquished myself to my room to relax and settle my stomach, only to soon to hear the inner workings of my digestive system soon going into overdrive. "This can't be good," I thought.

I drank some water and fell asleep.

Big meals, I find, give you some odd dreams. I can't remember exactly what I was dreaming about but It involved a fishing boat and an easy bake oven. Enough said.

All of a sudden I was woken up with a feeling of nausea. The room was spinning and I felt like I had been drugged.

I pushed my dog ,who was nestled comfortably in the crook of my legs, off my bed in a hurried attempt at getting to the lavatory in time. In an instant my glorious Thanksgiving dinner revisited my senses in a wafting blaze of glory. This is punishment. This is evil. This is overeating.

My point is that I used to eat like that a lot. The portions I ate at Thanksgiving meal wasn't so grotesque looking that people would stare. It was what most people would consume.

I think my body has just gotten used to eating less amounts and less fat and that's a good thing.

I guess it goes to show that just because something tastes good going down doesn't necessarily mean your body is going to like it. I was shown exactly that the other night.

Oh and for the record: No matter how good the pie is, it doesn't taste nearly as good the second time around.