December doesn't get much credit in the fitness world. Schedules get chaotic, training gets deprioritized, and the plan becomes to just start fresh in January. But showing up this month, even less than usual, holds a quiet kind of power that most people underestimate.

For a lot of people the holidays come with pressure. To be good, to hold off, to make up for it the next day. But all those stressful food thoughts running in the background pull you away from what Thanksgiving is actually about. Here is a different approach, and none of it involves telling you what or how much to eat.