Out It Goes!

any tastily tempting treats that is.

Sure you may eat some delights from a table feast on Thanksgiving day but it is the leftovers and eating those for days on end that can add up to unwanted calories.

We made a delectable apple pie. And it tasted good. I ate a portion and some vanilla ice cream (bought in pint size only). Then I went back for a smaller portion.

That is when alarm bells go off.

You had a portion and there you stand 'checking in' on how that tasty pie is doing all by itself in that lonely kitchen. You go to visit it and helpfully arrange the edges of the last slice cutting, making sure they are even and eating the trimmings.

STOP!!!

Just throw it out. Did this and it works.

If you are a problem eater keeping any food that you know will cause you to overindulge - don't keep it.

If it is there - throw it out.

Out went the remainder of the pint of ice cream.

Gone. No more temptation.

PUT IT IN THE WASTE BIN OR YOU WILL ADVERTISE WHERE YOUR WAIST HAS BEEN!

This is especially true of fatty/fried/sweet foods.

Putting discipline in the feastivities brings much better results.

Last year we did an absurd idea which seemed like such a good idea at the time: we made a Thanksgiving Feast on Thanksgiving Day and then made another one that same Saturday. We had double feasts in four days.

Amazingly, it may have been my idea. We cannot remember. One minute the idea was uttered, the next minute we were chopping, baking, roasting, simmering. Then stuffing, gorging and overeating. There was no stopping this - like a rampant mob foraging on a melee of eating crimes we let loose and loosened our belts.

AND we (Hubby and me and my sis who was involved) come from families with diabetes type 2, obesity (my side of the family) and bad lifestyle habits.

Not this year: Out It Goes and Out It Went!