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"Thanksgiving&amp;#039;s here in a few days and for dieters like me, it can be a like a living nightmare. Everywhere I turn there&amp;#039;s a picture of something mouth-wateringly delicious; or someone eating something mouth-wateringly delicious; or someone talking about eating something mouth-wateringly delicious. In other words, it&amp;#039;s a seriously hard time of year to watch the waistline.  But here are a few ways I plan on dealing with it:  I plan on zooming in on the dishes I know I love to eat and ignoring the rest. For example, I am in love with my mother&amp;#039;s stuffing. I already know I&amp;#039;m going to pig out on it, so instead of first taking a small scoopful and refilling 3 (or 4 or 5) times, I&amp;#039;m going to have a big heap of it from the start -- so much that it&amp;#039;ll be my main entr\u00E9e. I confess that turkey isn&amp;#039;t one of my favorite meats so I plan on ignoring it all together that day. Call that sacrilegious but I&amp;#039;d much rather eat the other stuff! Exercising an extra time earlier in the week because I know I won&amp;#039;t want to work out the day of Thanksgiving or the day after. (Although, a reality check: I haven&amp;#039;t been exercising at all so even exercising once will be more than usual for me!) Not picking at appetizers much. For me, Thanksgiving isn&amp;#039;t about appetizers -- it&amp;#039;s about the big dinner and lots of desserts. I admit I&amp;#039;ll be doing this mostly so that I can leave room in my stomach for everything I want to eat, but I suppose it&amp;#039;s a good way to watch the caloric intake, too. No big breakfast or lunch that day. Instead, I&amp;#039;ll probably have one slice of toast and egg whites in the morning so that I have energy the rest of the day. Since I know I&amp;#039;ll be eating more than enough calories at dinner, I figure I can save the calories I would&amp;#039;ve had at breakfast and lunch and use them -- so to speak -- during dinner. I realize calories don&amp;#039;t necessarily work like frequent flyer miles, but so be it. I am going to try hard to remember that the next day I will be eating the same meal all over again for leftovers, so there is no need to eat like I&amp;#039;ll never have these dishes again.  Overall, though, I will not be sweating this holiday too much because, after all, it&amp;#039;s once a year. I just want to relax, eat, drink and not worry so much. I mean, when else has the world given us permission to pig out? Every other day of the year I feel guilty about eating too much. But on this day, it&amp;#039;s actually encouraged. So I better take advantage of this while I can! ;) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone - "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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