Cloudy wrote:
Two Thanksgiving dinners, back to back.
(Mind you, not just one, but two. When the first was over I had less than 20 minutes to make it to the second.)
My mother had prepared a full Thanksgiving dinner for the family, which I could not miss, and I had to partake of everything she had prepared. However, my girlfriend's mother had invited me to share Thanksgiving dinner with her family also, an event that I could not miss either. I could not insult either my mother or my girlfriend's mother by not eating everything they put in front of me, so I stuffed myself that Thanksgiving day to the point of a nuclear explosion, that could have wiped out Oneida County. Thank God I was young back then, and my stomach could hold it all in. Though I suffered, I made two moms happy, and saved Oneida County from a devastating explosion of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, asparagus, cranberry sauce, creamed corn, muffins, and pumpkin pie.
I pulled it off. My mother still loves me, and that girlfriend married me. However, I will never eat two Thanksgiving dinners back to back ever again.
p.s. How many pounds of food did I take in that day...? Can't know for sure, but I would guess it must have been pretty close to twenty. Yeah, one plate would not have been enough to make both moms happy, so I forced myself to load up again for seconds.
Yep, never again. No one wants this to happen:
That's why you have to go into training. There is a way to train for "over eating", and it helps with this time of the year. Basically, it involves GALLONS of water, or another beverage that would help replace electrolytes and anything else you pee. This helps stretch the stomach.
I'm working on this task right now, because for the past four years I've had to eat two major meals on Turkey day. Four years ago, it was my mother's MAJOR feast, followed by my father-in-law's family. Now, with my mother in the nursing home an unable to cook, I do the mother-in-law family thing for lunch, and the father-in-law family thing for supper. Little time between rounds, but more than your 20 minutes, and the wife drives so I can enjoy one or two or ten adult beverages. I try to avoid deserts and appetizers, but.....yea.......I know.
Happy Turkey Day everyone. Eat Drink and Be Merry