All celebrations require food (and lots of it)

I sit here wondering why every event we celebrate involves food? Not "good for you" food, but high fat, high calorie, high sugar food. Of course I helped contribute to the "celebration" food. I baked up a storm again this year. Chocolate whoopie pies with kuhlua filling, rocky road tassies, cranberry almond bars, sugar cookies, spritzer cookies, red velvet whoopie pies with peppermint filling, chocolate mint-oreo bark, white chocolate peppermint bark, chex mix, and pig-in-the-blankets (I am sure I missed a thing or two there). Mind you this is scaled back from years past! The only difference was I ate zero, nadda, zelch, nothing, of the sweet stuff. I did indulge in the chex mix, which was high fat, but did have protein (nuts). I did eat exactly one pig-in-the-blanket, it just did not taste as good as it use to. Of course I was surrounded by temptation, but really it did not bother me at all. When I feel the urge to eat bad stuff I remind myself of the journey I am on, have far I have come, and the fact that I take ZERO meds, and am conquering my PCOS (it will never completely go away, but is such more more managable). I look back to when I was on weight watchers, and I still baked all this food for the Holidays, and I still lost weight. Christmas 2005 I lost 25lbs. between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That was after I had Kendall and still could succeed at losing weight. Wishing you all a blessed Christmas, enjoy your family!!!!!