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No Fasting Before Thanksgiving Dinner!

Employing a plan to avoid eating too many unhealthy foods on Thanksgiving is a good idea, but there’s one strategy that’s actually a recipe for failure: fasting before the big meal. Total deprivation actually leads to extreme hunger, cravings, and, inevitably, overeating at mealtime — everything that the South Beach Diet principles work to prevent. Fortunately, there are alternative tactics you can use to avoid overeating on Thanksgiving and throughout the year.

• Eat healthfully throughout the day.
• Engage in physical activity.
• Enlist help.
• Bring snacks along to parties.
• Allow yourself a few indulgences.