Healthy Holiday Choices

I hope you don't have to make difficult diet choices during the holidays. Most often the menus at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other times that pull family together.

If you have a special diet, e.g. if you are trying to lose weight, do you feel peer pressure when friends and family meet for dinner during the holidays? Do you feel like you need to be apologetic?

Well, take a stand like I do. I have no apologies. I don't care how long it took to fry the chicken or whether or not the recipe came from Mars. I'm making the healthy choice regardless...

Or you can please the cook, kill yourself, and hope that you get the chance to take off the extra pounds you will gain or lower the increase in your cholesterol after everybody goes back home. But then again, will you have to do yourself the same thing next time?

Why not just come out and say, "no thanks" now, so you don't have to feel the guilt next time? You might even get some of your dear cousins on the "healthy choice band waggon" with you.

Anyway, have a healthy, happy Christmas and an even greater 2006.