Food Vibes: Holiday "Stuffing" 🫣 (Patreon)

I imagine we've all had the itis from a holiday meal...the partly satisfied, mostly exhaustion and pain/ bloated feeling from having eaten waaaaaaay too much 😅

Personally, I tried to be a bit better this year and not overstuff myself, but... I didn't have much success 🙈

I honestly find that my appetite gets really messed up during the holidays. Especially Christmas, but honestly, Thanksgiving and Easter, too. I tend to bake a lot around the holidays, and when I bake, I often forget to eat/drink anything... I am getting marginally better about it, but because I'm taste testing throughout the baking process, my blood sugar doesn't drop the way it normally would if I just didn't eat at all. Which is good since I'm hypoglycemic, but for obvious reasons, also not so good 😅

After all the baking, my appetite either goes to one extreme or the other. Either I haven't been eating, so I just don't have much of an appetite, or I haven't been eating, so my appetite is trying to get me to compensate by eating way more when I do eat a meal... this year was the latter 🙈 So the good news is: I've been able to comfortably eat and enjoy all the Christmas meals!

And yet, I somehow managed to eat too much anyway 😂 Also, I had some mashed potatoes that were so good they were overstimulating, but that was already a post 😅🙈

Have any of you not eaten too much at a big family/holiday meal? If you eat too much, what's the food you'll stuff in your face even though you're already full? Does your family have any special holiday food traditions; Something that always gets made, but you wouldn't necessarily see it at your friend's house?