Strategies to Take Control of Your #Thanksgiving Feasting

Avoid overindulging during the holidays with these simple, nutritionist-approved strategies.

Ditch the now-or-never mentality.

We do it to ourselves every year. Each year we approach this beloved family feast as though it were only time that we will ever eat turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. This motivates us to inhale these seasonal foods as though we aren’t going to see them again for another 12 months.

My goodness, the makings for a traditional #Thanksgiving dinner are available at our local supermarkets every day of the year, so if you want to repeat the stuffed bird and sides in March (which I highly recommend), with or without your family (maybe another plus), go for it. In fact, if we all got in the habit of repeating the “Thanksgiving meal” a couple of times a year, it would lessen this impulse to furiously gobble it up to an excess on this one day.

So in addition to planning a new Thanksgiving-in-July tradition, here are my strategies that can help you break with the tradition of overdoing it on Thanksgiving and still allow you to deliciously enjoy it all: 

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