Things You'll Need:
- Low-fat, low calorie Thanksgiving foods.
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Step 1
Do some Thanksgiving exercising. Play some football, instead of watching it. Start a football playing tradition with your family, or, better yet, a brisk fall walk around the block. If the weather outside is frosty, do what you can at home before joining the family for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Step 2
Bring your own food. If you are invited to Thanksgiving dinner, prepare a healthy side dish and present it to the hostess when you arrive. She will be glad to have another offering for dinner and you will have a healthy option to eat.
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Step 3
Prepare a healthy Thanksgiving feast. If you are the on hosting and cooking Thanksgiving dinner, it is easy to substitute healthy menu options in the place of less-healthy ones. For example, instead of serving mashed potatoes loaded with butter and sour cream, try serving mashed sweet potatoes instead, or mash white potatoes with chicken broth instead of cream or milk.
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Step 4
Create a plan for the leftovers. It's too tempting to load up some bread with a ton of mayonnaise and create a fattening turkey sandwich. Instead, immediately take that leftover turkey and make a low-sodium soup with it or other healthy option.
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Step 5
Have some dessert, but in moderation. If you try do deny yourself some yummy pumpkin pie, you are bound to cave in and then overindulge. Instead, allow yourself a thin slice of pumpkin pie or just one cookie.
