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What if you’re not in control of the Thanksgiving Feast? What if someone else is in charge of all the cooking, and you have no say over what is going to be served? What if the person doing the cooking doesn’t think the same way you do about food and healthy nutrition?

What do you do?

• Do you fight and whine?
• Do you just give up and go with the flow?
• Or do you have a plan?

Admission:  control freak here. And I find myself in the position I described in the first paragraph–I am not in control of the Thanksgiving meal! And then I found myself going through the process I listed above. Gah! It was almost like going through the stages of grief!

All of us are in different places in our relationship with food. Right now I am at a point where I am very serious about trying to lose some weight and eat as healthily as possible. So after I got over being mad/sad/whining/giving up, and after my good friend reminded me that it was my responsibility to moderate my intake, not my hosts, I made a plan.

I looked at the menu and noticed that there was no fruit. I will ask nicely if I can bring a fruit salad. I have all the fruit ready and have a terrific recipe in my head. I also bought a bag of baby carrots to add to the hors d’oeuvres’ platter. If they don’t want a fruit salad, I will bring an apple with me, and eat it in the car on the drive over. That way I won't be too hungry and it will be easier to make good choices.

If all else fails (meaning, I eat too much,) I will be kind and remind myself that it is one day. And that is what it is. I am not eating differently up to the day, and I will not eat differently after the day.

Oh, and maybe I should spend a little more time thinking about the real meaning of the day…

If you want to read more, check out my blog, Debby Weighs In!