Short questions with Dana Perino for nutritionist Heather Bauer

For the past mates of years, I’ve enjoyed checking successful with immoderate of your favourite Fox personalities to larn much astir who they are down the scenes.

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But arsenic you whitethorn recall, I besides promised to propulsion successful immoderate astonishment appearances present and then!

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For Thanksgiving this year, I've checked successful with Heather Bauer, RDN, for her champion tips and tricks connected staying steadfast done each the festivities (and food options!) this week.  

Read connected for her large takeaways. 

And stock with household and friends (they whitethorn convey you later!).  

This Thanksgiving, New York City-area dietitian-nutritionist Heather Bauer advises people, "Set yourself up for occurrence by starting your time with immoderate exercise. A 20-30 infinitesimal household locomotion oregon tally volition marque your assemblage consciousness good." (Fox News Digital)

Q: As idiosyncratic who is trying to enactment connected a bully regular nutrition-wise — and not connected a GLP-1 drug! — what bash you urge I bash to hole for Thanksgiving Day?

HB: Before Thanksgiving, acceptable yourself up for occurrence by starting your time with immoderate exercise. A 20-30 infinitesimal household locomotion oregon tally volition marque your assemblage consciousness good. 

Avoid carbs during the time and prevention them for the Thanksgiving meal. 

For example, astatine breakfast, person 2 oregon 3 hard-boiled eggs with a 4th of an avocado and skip the toast (maybe adjacent adhd a fewer high-fiber crackers, "nature’s Ozempic"). 

"When you consciousness bully astir yourself, making healthier choices is easier."

Hydrate good by drinking astatine slightest 50 ounces of h2o earlier 2 p.m. This volition assistance your assemblage grip the other brackish and measurement during the meal. 

Also, program your outfit thoughtfully. Wear thing much fitted to assistance you enactment mindful of what you're eating. Ladies, deliberation of your tightest brace of non-stretch jeans oregon a pencil skirt; and guys, tighten that loop notch by 1 notch. 

When you consciousness bully astir yourself, making healthier choices is easier. Spending a small other clip connected your quality tin marque a large quality successful however you consciousness and eat.

Q: What are your pre-dinner tips for Thanksgiving?

HB: For pre-dinner, arsenic mentioned earlier, deterioration thing fitted that makes you consciousness good. When you consciousness assured successful your appearance, you’re much apt to marque mindful nutrient choices. 

As for wherever to beryllium connected Thanksgiving Day, effort to debar sitting too adjacent to the food. I telephone this "sit arm’s-length region from immoderate pop-able foods."

The hr earlier Thanksgiving tin beryllium 1 of the trickiest hours if you are an eater. 

"Wait arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable earlier having your archetypal bite."

Don’t beryllium successful the mediate of the sofa wherever you tin easy thin guardant and drawback different swipe of crab dip. Instead, beryllium connected the extremity oregon successful a broadside seat truthful that you person to get up and marque a tiny sheet (and support it to 1 tiny plate). 

One much strategy I archer my clients is not to "break the seal" by eating excessively early! 

Wait arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable earlier having your archetypal bite. 

If you bash snack, opt for healthier options similar crudités, bruschetta oregon shrimp cocktail.

Q: How astir intoxicant depletion that day?

HB: When it comes to alcohol, take a portion you tin sip slowly. 

I ever archer my clients to prime their slightest favourite drink. 

This mode they volition portion little of it. 

If you emotion wine, see swapping it for thing similar Tito’s & nine soda with a splash of lime, which is lighter and easier to pace, and possibly a small little fun. 

Lastly, after each cocktail, marque definite to portion a solid of h2o to enactment hydrated and assistance negociate your intake.

Q: Dinner is served. Now what?

HB: When meal is served, if it’s buffet style, beryllium the past successful line. This volition assistance you dilatory down and springiness you much clip to deliberation astir your choices. 

Decide up of clip which carb you’ll choose — whether it’s stuffing, saccharine potatoes oregon dessert — and capable the remainder of your sheet with veggies. 

"Remember to devour dilatory and savor each bite."

Think of your sheet arsenic divided into quarters: a 4th protein, a 4th carb, and fractional veggies. 

If you’re choosing turkey, spell for the achromatic nutrient if you similar it, but don’t consciousness atrocious astir opting for acheronian nutrient if that’s what you prefer. Just skip the tegument if you can. 

If you privation gravy, usage a tiny magnitude connected the broadside alternatively of pouring it implicit your turkey. 

Skip the bread, since you’re already getting plentifulness of starch from different dishes. 

If you’re inactive bare and privation seconds, instrumentality with more turkey and veggies. 

And retrieve to devour dilatory and savor each bite.

Q: Do you person immoderate post-Thanksgiving recommendations?

After Thanksgiving, don’t fto the indulgence agelong into a multi-day affair. 

On Friday, get close backmost to your mean eating routine. 

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Start caller with your accustomed docket and don’t fto the vacation go an excuse to support indulging. 

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To cheque retired immoderate of Dana Perino's earlier "Short Questions" interviews for Fox News Digital, spot below. 

For her interrogation with Tom Shillue, click here.

For her interrogation with Todd Piro, click here.

For her interrogation with Adam Klotz, click here.

For her interrogation with Dr. Nicole Saphier, click here. 

For her interrogation with Kerri Kupec Urbahn, click here. 

For her interrogation with Dr. Marc Siegel, click here. 

For her interrogation with Taylor Riggs, click here. 

For her interrogation with Griff Jenkins, click here.