for thanksgiving i am going to have literally like one teaspoon of each thing that i should not have and eat liberally of the things i can have. that way i whould not derail myself too badly, carb counting wise. exercising right now is not as easy for me because of all of the schedule stuff with my son. heis the one that was in the serious car wreck about seven weeks ago. fitting in exercise right now is next to impossible. it would probably do me a world of good mentally but that will have to come later when he is getting better. as for drying the handwashables with the exercise machine...what a great thought!! and here i was thinking that the fan action on the exercise bike was only good for getting all of the dust bunnies out from under all of the furniture and the hard to reach areas of the house!!!