TURKEY DAY DIET TIPS: START A FAMILY FIGHT

TURKEY DAY DIET TIPS: START A FAMILY FIGHT

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Want to avoid packing on the pounds this Thanksgiving? Take the advice of a New York City fitness expert and start a fight at the dinner table. Fitness guru Charles Platkin of the eFit.com website claims arguing with relatives is a great way to keep yourself talking at the dinner table instead of eating. If that's not your style, Platkin has other bizarre ways to stay slim during the holiday battle of the bulge... -- Lower your thermostat at home, because more calories are burned in a cold room than a hot one. -- Volunteer to both cook the meal and clean it up. Cooking food burns about 150 calories an hour while washing dishes burns 141. -- Finally, Platkin says you can stifle your eating urges by sitting next to a relative with bad table manners and letting their stomach-churning behavior gross you out.