My Excellent Adventure In Weight Loss, offers the following tips to maintaining your diet through the holiday season:
(Jamie Bernard, author of The Incredible Shrinking Critic)
Fill up before you go out. If you eat some nuts or half a cup of low-fat cottage cheese before you go out to the party you'll already be full when you get there. If you don't have time to eat something at home before you leave, grab a protein bar for the road.
Pretend you're the host or hostess. If Thanksgiving is at your house this year you're in luck, but if you're going to visit family there's still hope. Either way, be the "ultimate host" and offer to clean, set the table, be a waiter, fill up glasses, etc. If you're being the host you probably won't have time to sit down for those fattening appetizers.
Show up late: If you can get away with it, show up late to Thanksgiving dinner. That way you'll miss appetizers. And if you leave early, you'll miss desserts.
Pile food high and wide on your plate, but make sure the food mountain you build is made of the healthiest dishes on the menu. Healthy Thanksgiving items include fruit, salad, and white turkey meat.
Bring a dessert that you really hate. That way you won't be tempted to eat it at the party, nor will you be tempted to make a second one for your home.
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