Today is the day to try harder than usual not to spill something on yourself.

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Zulkey.com will be enjoying a short week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but I wanted to make it an interactive week. The other week I was talking to my nutritionist (the hottest accessory of the season) and she was telling me how she would be appearing on a local news morning show to talk about Thanksgiving healthy eating tips, which were the typical boring 'lite' eating things that you never want to listen to at Thanksgiving.

We have a few stories in my family about Thanksgiving strategies. One was how my Uncle D. as a kid loved mashed potatoes so much that he saved his until the end of the meal and then he realized he was too full to eat them, and it was quite tragicomic. For me, though, my goal this year is to make it to dessert. My mom isn't a dessert mom--we very rarely have homemade treats in the house, so it's a big deal when she makes them for Thanksgiving. Every year though as excited as I get I'm always too full to eat that much of or enjoy the desserts. This year, though, I have a new plan. It's kind of crazy, though, and threefold as well. 1.) Don't drink. I don't want to fill up on booze, wine will make me want to eat more, which will be problematic for 2.): Don't have any seconds. This one is hard for me because my mom is quite the good cook and it's very tempting each year, especially as we have about 15 or 16 people over, to eat your food as fast as you can and rush back for more before anyone else gets to the seconds before you. I'm going to try to forfeit this race, in the interest of dessert. 3.) No raw vegetables. My mom always puts out a veggie plate and I've learned that this is just a distraction and takes up valuable room that is more needed by stuffing, or cookies, or pie.

So we'll see how this goes. I wanted to know, though, out there, what Thanksgiving strategies you guys have--whether it's what to eat or not eat at your meal, how to get the best seat at the table so you're not sitting next to an obnoxious relative, or how to just get through the holiday (and please share because some people might be in need of this advice.)

So email me your Thanksgiving strategies for making the best out of the holiday and I'll put them up Wednesday for everyone's benefit. Your random method of coping could help save someone's life. I mean, day.