What's your Thanksgiving plan?

Thanksgiving is right around the corner!  I am looking forward to my husband's cooking, my sister's chocolate chip cookies, and my Mom and Dad spending time with all their grandkids.  There will be no low calorie pumpkin pie, no salad, maybe a veggie tray.  There will be turkey, stuffing, gravy from scratch, sweet potato pie, homemade rolls and pies.  How in the world does a faithful Weight Watcher deal with all of this food?  Here is my plan:

1.  Eat a good breakfast the morning of Thanksgiving: 2 eggs with mushrooms and a piece of Ezekiel toast with real butter (8 WW points). Drink 30 oz of water.
2.  Run in a Turkey Trot 5k on Thanksgiving morning (Earn 4 extra WW points for later).  Enlist family members to join me. Click here to sign up for the 5k!
3. After run eat banana and protein shake (4 WW points).  Drink 30 oz of water.
4.  Help / watch husband cook all the food.  Maybe there is something he will let me chop this year.  But I doubt it so I'm in charge of setting the table.

5. When we sit down to eat, be sure to get 3-4 oz of turkey (4 WW points).  Estimation of portion will be key, since family will probably frown on seeing a food scale on the table.  
6. Get small (1/2 c or less) portions of everything else (10-15 WW points).  Don't eat anything you don't LOVE. Keep drinking water.  Stop eating when full!
7. Hold off on seconds.  Talk to family instead. 
8. Dessert: pick ONE and enjoy it (8-10 WW points). Do not eat the whole pie. Drink a glass of water. Maybe drink some coffee, black.
9. Take a family walk around the block (earn 1-2 WW points). Drink another glass of water.
10. It's time for dinner.  Eat some turkey.  Maybe a turkey sandwich (7 WW points). Drink more water.
11.  Enlist family in "planksgiving" contest to see who can plank the longest.  We all know either Ec (my sister) or Butch (her husband) will win.  Winner does dishes! That will teach them to run triathlons  / half marathons / play rugby / coach various sports teams!

WW points = 48 for the day.  I get 26 points daily, earned 4 with the run, 1 with the walk, and used 17 extra weekly points (everyone gets 49 extra weekly points to use whenever).

Get right back on track the next day with your workout routine and healthy eating, after shopping the Black Friday sales, of course! 

Leave a comment with your tips please! Happy Thanksgiving!