What To Do On Holidays And At Family Gatherings

Posted: January 7th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »

I’m headed to family gathering this weekend up in Taxachusetts, although New York could own that title very, very soon. Free spending idiocrats in the legislature are looking to tax anything that moves, just like in Cali FORN yah, where where Schwartenzdummy is riding a wave that is leading straight to bankruptcy. His forlorn pleas to the Obamessiah have gone unheard, but maybe the new White House version of Jethro Bodine will hear the distress signal from the Three Mouseketeers: Pelosi, Boxer, and Feinstein.

And while the Taxocrats look to levy anything moving, companies will be looking to Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, and other sanctuaries where anyone can conduct business, without a creepy bureaucrat, in a cheap suit and bad shoes, following him around.

I’m going to stop, before I get rolling on a full-blown Dennis Miller rant, but these stupid people have to be stopped, before they shove the country into the same category as Albania.

For people on a health mission, or on a diet, holidays like the 4th of July can be tough on the old food plan.

Here’s my advice, and believe me now and listen to me later.

Don’t take your meal plan, or diet, with you when you go. I can’t tell you how many gatherings I’ve attended where some schmuck, (who by the way.. is a guest), tries to impose his or her food views on the host or hostess, or both, or all the attendees.

Nobody has to conform to your point of view (or wants to). 

If the family is having a traditional BBQ, and you don’t normally eat that, suck it up and be polite, and eat a little chicken. It won’t kill you, or make you sick. You don’t need to know every ingredient in the food, unless you have a food allergy, and you ought to alert the host to that, way ahead of time.

And if you’re on a diet, eating some pretty rich stuff at one meal won’t slow your progress one whit. Just watch your portion size.

The holiday, or family gathering rule is, dont be a PITA (if you get my drift). You’re a vegan? Fine. Find some lettuce and graze away. You want skinless chicken? Pull the skin off yourself and shut up.

No diet or food plan is ruined in one meal, or over a day or two. What matters is what you do the rest of the time. Don’t be like a very famous doctor and his girlfriend I know, who took over thirty minutes to order lunch at a gathering I attended. The rest of the group wanted to pick up their chairs and beat them.

Taking my Powerhouse Omega Formula will keep you more mellow, than not. In fact, I’m double checking to make sure I have plenty for this trip. I might even take some, right now.

And if you’re looking for me, I’ll be close to the grill.

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