Enjoy Thanksgiving indulgences; enjoy your Star HeraldThanksgiving is traditionally one of my favorite days of the year. I enjoy cooking the Thanksgiving feast, but more than that, I love eating the feast. That overindulging not only at Thanksgiving but hundreds of other meals over the course of the year has helped me balloon up nearly 280 pounds. Many of our regular Star Herald readers have been following our Big Loser promotion on a weekly basis.Today’s issue of the Star Herald is being delivered to every household in Rock County so some of you may not know what I am writing about. Just across from this page to your right is the Big Loser page. The 12 participants have been weighing in each week at the Sioux Valley Clinic — Luverne. Dietitian Margaret Kuiper has been tabulating and tracking our weekly results and, as you can see on the next page, we have all been shedding the pounds.No doubt tomorrow will be a test for us all, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy ourselves. As you can also see on the next page, I gained a pound last week. You would think gaining a pound while trying to lose weight isn’t a good thing. But look at it this way: I was on vacation that week and ate out every day. I enjoyed my time off and tried not to put on the 5 to 10 pounds that normally follows me back from a vacation. See? Success is all how you look at it.For those of you reading this column for the first time and reading about the Big Loser promotion, that is just the tip of the information iceberg that you’re missing each week by not being a subscriber to The Rock County Star Herald. We take great pride in our weekly publication, bringing the residents of Rock County the local news, sports, personal features of triumph and tragedy along with regular special sections featuring seasonal events and all the local sports teams. In addition to all of this, we provide a strong editorial page with opinions, columns and letters to the editor. The Star Herald, along with the Luverne Announcer, provides our advertisers with a cost-effective and results-producing advertising vehicle which helps you find the goods and services you are looking for.For those of you who are Star Herald subscribers, thank you. For those of you enjoying your complementary Thanksgiving copy, enjoy. By the way, our office will be open Friday if you would like to call or stop in and start your subscription (the Star Herald makes a great Christmas gift).