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Anybody who is on the Atkins or other low/no carb diet may want to skip this blog. I'm going to tell you what I had for Thanksgiving dinner, and it may upset you to think about it. First, I admit to going to an all-you-can-eat buffet. I am a vegetarian. First I got baked beans, rice, mashed potatoes (no gravy), green bean casserole, and a little macaroni and cheese. Then I went back for more baked beans, corn, carrots, a dinner roll (no butter), and a few french fries. I finished off with a couple of cookies and washed the whole thing down with 6 or 8 ounces of Sprite. Lots of carbs, lots of starch. My companions had the turkey and/or ham, but kept themselves under control. There were, though, lots of people there who did overdo, and many of them were probably regulars at the place. There were a lot of overweight people in one place, and they didn't get that way from eating corn and carrots. The bottom line is that if you are overweight, you probably eat too much, that is too many calories. You probably move too little, too, but most people do slow down as they gain weight, so it's hard to tell which comes first.
A couple of people have done books or movies showing how they ate at McDonald's for a month and lost weight. This is to refute Morgan Spurlock's film "Supersize Me." As I have said before, you can control calories even at McDonald's, and that's what these people did. You don't have to eat 5000 calories a day like Morgan did and ruin your health in a month. This doesn't make McDonald's fare health food, and if you eat too much fatty junk food, you just take longer to damage your health.

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