Change Your Focus

Why do we associate the holidays with eating?  I would venture a guess that in the olden' days your food was a little more special on a holiday, than the daily mush.  However, today, our food is pretty special on a daily basis and we still center our holiday around the meal and special treats.  Is there another way to pull off a holiday without all the munching, crunching and belching?  I am going to try to keep my thoughts off the treats and on the real reason we gather together.  Tonight, I did a 30 min.walk dvd while I was changing my focus.