This break offered me a very clear perspective of the ideas discussed in class. My family and family friends all gathered at my grandmothers house to celebrate the holiday. My grandmother worked really hard preparing the Thanksgiving meal and all she asked of us in return was to dress up nicely. One of my grandmothers friends had a history of eating for comfort and pleasure. This habit made her so overweight that she had to get a surgery to shrink her stomach. As a result of this surgery, she has to eat very small meals frequently, so at the dinner table she took a lot of eating breaks.
After the Thanksgiving feast, everyone seemed to have the same stuffed feeling. We were all very tired and continued to sit at the dinner table for another hour or so. Afterword, our family split up the girls from the boys and the boys went to watch sports while the girls went to watch movies. The rest of my break was very similar to this, I stared at screens all day, ate, and made close to no physical movement. I was in a very anti-body mindset because I felt like there was nothing better to do.
I was not around when this happened, but apparently my little brother got very sick after our Thanksgiving meal. He threw up four times. I found out about this from eavesdropping on my parents conversation about what may have caused my brothers sickness. My mom concluded that it must be the ham because it was the one thing my grandmother did not cook. It is very easy to connect sickness to food but it is not always the leading cause. I felt that if one out of nine people got sick then it might not be the hams doing.
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