In less than two weeks, Thanksgiving dinner will be served in millions of households throughout the U.S. As a variety of dinner sides are shared, so too will some interesting bits of conversation. In most cases, they're basically the same conversations you have every year. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're dull, but for the most part they're always worth listening to.

But, what if you found yourself at a dinner table filled with a whole new group of people? And, let's pretend for a second that you could choose five people who would be at that table and whose conversations you would like to listen in on. Who would you choose? The one ThatsFit stipulation is that your five people have to be related, in some way, to health and fitness.

Playing along myself, I think these would be the five guests at my ThatsFit Thanksgiving dinner table:

5 - Arnold Schwarzenegger. If we could check all political conversation at the door, I'd be fascinated to hear the Austrian Oak speak candidly about his bodybuilding career. Having Arnold at the table would be akin to having someone read directly from a health and fitness encyclopedia (which, incidentally, Arnold wrote).

4 - Bill Phillips. As the owner of EAS and the guy behind the "Body for Life Challenge," this fitness expert and author would presumably have some great fitness tidbits to offer up. Plus, if he can pay someone $1 million each year for winning his challenge, he could probably spring for dinner.

3 - Kim Lyons. Known best as one of the personal trainers on the TV show "The Biggest Loser," she not only would add some much needed femininity to this testosterone-filled dinner table, but a great deal of fitness knowledge, as well. In addition, I think it would be quite interesting to hear her personal success stories with some of the contestants.

2 - Kevin Trudeau. Yup, the guy that tries to hawk those books in his infomercials. You know, the Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About guy. Having never read any of his books, I would at least be interested to decide for myself whether this dude is for real or just full of ... stuff(ing).

1 - Dr. Andrew Weil. In case the name doesn't jump out you (don't feel bad if it doesn't - I just spent about 10 minutes Googling it), the face probably will. In the event that Kevin Trudeau doesn't bring much to the table (no pun intended), I'd hope that Dr. Weil could offer up some natural health conversation. But, if he too turns out to be a dud, maybe he'll at least bring some healthy desserts.

Those would be my esteemed guests. Who would be yours?

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Having inspired a nation of millions in its first two seasons, the new season of NBC's Biggest Loser now plans to reach the entire country -- literally. With new rules and new trainers Bob Harper and Kim Lyons, this season's TV reality-fitness phenom features 50 contestants from 50 states -- including a Rhode Island housewife, a firefighter from Tennessee, and a loving father of six from Arizona, among 47 others.

When the contestants arrived, they weighed over 14,000 pounds and during their last week to binge on anything they wanted, they consumed more than 1,000,000 calories. To follow the contestants on their own journey and challenges, catch the new season which begins Wednesday, September 20, 8/7 Central with a two-hour season premiere.

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