I have some important diet advice for you that may be useful during the holidays.

[LuckyCharms]

The key is to eat BALANCED meals. Portion control is over-emphasized based on my research. Instead, BALANCE is the key.

For example, let's say you are going to have a nice breakfast consisting of Christmas cookies.

Get yourself a nice big plate. Put 5 Snickerdoodles on the plate.

Now remember...you want the meal to be balanced.

After you eat the 5 snickerdoodles, eat EXACTLY 5 Kolache Cookies. See? BALANCE.

Still hungry? Eat exactly 5 sugar cookies!

Balance!

As long as you keep everything in balance, you won't put on weight.

Trust me, I'm an expert. I have two Accounting degrees.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Lots of brocolli so you feel good about the pie

[LuckyCharms]

2. Or, you could eat a brocolli pie.

As long as you eat 5 of them to keep the meal balanced.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Or, you could just plan ahead

and take the batteries out of your scale…

[LuckyCharms]

4. As a former accountant, I can say with certainty...

that numbers are a false, man-made concept. Therefore, numbers on a scale are meaningless.

FAKE NUMBERS.

[Ocelot II]

5. The best and most effective diet advice I have ever received is this:

If it tastes good, spit it out.

[LuckyCharms]

6. That's good advice, as long as you...

spit it out 5 times. To keep everything in balance.

[DFW]

18. That's what my cardiologist told me, too

Unfortunately, my advanced memory loss keeps me from remembering to do that, especially when something is put before me that smells extraordinarily good. Having a wife who is a gourmet chef doesn't make it any easier on me, either. Worse yet, she's German, so she can do the pastry department, too.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

7. This is actually much better medical advise than RFK, Jr.'s HHS puts out. And, IMO, it can apply to more than...

...just the holidays.

For healthier-eating parts of the year you might even bring your weight down anywhere from 300 to 1500--possibly 3000--percent!

[LuckyCharms]

8. Very good. I wish more people understood this.

[EYESORE 9001]

9. I tried your 'balanced' approach, just not at Christmas time

My downfall was alphabet soup. After five bowls, I had an enormous vowel movement. Thanks a pantload, Charms

[LuckyCharms]

10. .

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Snort. 😆❤️

[jmbar2]

12. Punkin pie is a vegetable right?

How many slices meet the five fruits and veggies recommendation?

[mwmisses4289]

20. 5 slices, of course!

[Teacher of the Year]

13. Those accounting degrees aren't adding up right....

I would argue you but I didn't make enough cookies for the neighbors so I just made a double batch of fudge...which sort of ended up being my dinner and I can't eat anything else because my stomach hurts from all that delicious chocolaty fudge. Sigh.

I didn't mean to eat so much. All I did was eat what was left in the bowl/on the spatula. (a ridiculous amount).

[Nasruddin]

14. WIth a name like Lucky Charms

We have no choice but to believe you. Pass the gingerbread cookies, would you?

[LudwigPastorius]

15. Make sure you get the proper proportional amounts from the Nutrition Pyramid.

[CentralMass]

16. You may be on to something LuckCharms.

[sprinkleeninow]

17. I myself am on a seafood diet.

I see food an' I eat it. 😂

[airplaneman]

23. My diet is more like search and destroy

No matter where the food is I seek it out and destroy it.
-Airplane

[sprinkleeninow]

24. 😄

[chouchou]

19. As long as there's a gallon of ice cream in the plan, by God, I'm on board!

[Harker]

21. I'm planning on enjoying .5L of Pils, .5L of Schwartzbier...

and a 12oz. glass of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale.

Does that qualify as balanced, or do I need to work in some Stollen, too?

[Dorothy V]

22. I am balancing my cheesesteak with onion dip and a couple of hot dogs.