T-day, three days and counting

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Okay we all know turkey is relatively healthy, usually there are veggies floating around the table too. It's the potatoes, yams, biscuits, butter and gravy that will kill your "diet".

So tell me does anyone have a strategy for dealing with the "Oh you've hardly had a bite, here have seconds, thirds, dessert and some ice cream on top of that pie!" ?

I'm already dreading the bloated feeling and the food coma that follows.

Comments

[random-girl.livejournal.com]

David's family treats food as love. You really need to always be ready to receive love (food). Therefore, on the first pass around, take less than you'd like to eat (like maybe a quarter of what you want of everything--for things you really like, take a little more). Chew slowly. Engage in conversation. when the food comes around again, take more, but since you already have some left on your plate, you don't have to take as much. By the third time the plate comes around you can repeat as for the second or you can say that you're "saving room for dessert" or "full." I recommend saving room for dessert, too, because if food is love, dessert is "No honey, you don't look fat in that dress" but without having to say it.

To cope with realistic amounts of dessert, help clear the table. Even if they tell you not to, be chivalrous, make jokes, and help clear the table. Offer to help distribute dessert. Make sure everyone gets one, including the server, then note you need one and cut your own piece of whatever.

Enjoy. Good luck. It's a little dance I do twice a year, and I'm getting pretty good at it.

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Yes exactly! Food = Love.

Good strategies!