
We hope this post finds you enjoying your Thanksgiving Day. And while we hope you're finding time to indulge a bit -- hey, Thanksgiving only comes once a year, might as well grab a slice of pumpkin pie (
how many calories are in a slice of pumpkin by, anyway?) we also hope you're making some wise nutritional choices, while moving your rear end a fair amount too. How are we, your thankful blogging team, doing with our own diet and fitness decisions today? Here's the scoop.
No pumpkin pie for me. Not because it's full of calories, fat, and sugar, though -- just because sweets give me a headache, and there's nothing more powerful on the diet front than a medical reason not to eat something. Lucky me, because if sugar didn't go right to my head, believe me, I'd be terribly tempted. Otherwise, I've done a little moving today. I walked my mom's dogs (she's been sick and can't do it herself), and vacuumed her house (
hey, housework burns calories, right?), and went for a brisk walk too. I'm hoping these activities take care of the turkey, pasta, meatballs, and more I managed to consume throughout the course of the day.
Maggie let herself have all of her favorites. But she didn't go overboard (she watched her portion sizes carefully) and she made some proactive decisions too. The night before the big day, she had a light tuna salad for dinner with cut, raw veggies on the side. No snacks on Thanksgiving Eve, and then she woke to a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and a salad for lunch. With dinner at 4 PM, she wasn't ravenous at all. She also exercised on Turkey Day.