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Feel Good About Eating on Thanksgiving!

This great article by Joy Bauer, a registered dietician, got my attention as my Yahoo! homepage loaded this morning.  We hear so much about overeating during the holidays, avoiding gaining weight, tips and strategies to psych us out of enjoying the food that comes with the celebration of our holidays.  Ms. Bauer wirtes about all the "good stuff" that occurs naturally in our traditional Thanksgiving feast foods:  antioxidants, vitamins, lean protein. 

I happen to think that focusing on the "bad" side of eating and enjoying during the holidays can affect our whole outlook on this wonderful time of year.  So even though I only have one pair of pants that fit at the moment (that's Halloween candy, I am sure of it!) I am going to have a reasonably sized portion of healthy food this Thursday and stop the obsessing. 

Obsessing causes wrinkles, don't you know?  And then wrinkles cause you to have to look for an expensive way to get rid of them.  And then, you have to examine your budget to see if you can charge enough on your credit card to address the wrinkle problem.  And before you know it, your whole perspective has changed to a focus on how bad things are.

Stop the madness.  Be thankful for everything. 

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10:16, 2006-Nov-21 .. Posted by homesteadinthemaking

Thank you for this. We will have so much food around it is easy to get worried.LOL
Blessings,
Trixi

Looking Good!

12:28, 2006-Nov-21 .. Posted by Your Husband

I'm well qualified to let you know that you still look great honey! Love, Your Husband

p.s. Keep the credit cards in the purse. :)