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You’ve finally got into the groove. You’re getting out to the gym regularly, and your muscles actually seem to be doing what you tell them to and changing in the right direction. You’ve worked out the kinks in your diet and came up with something that leaves you feeling satisfied and energized while avoiding the too-full feelings and the sluggishness that comes with that. In fact, you’re well on the highway to good health, and there’s nothing more you need to do but keep at it, day in, day out.

Then comes Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Not to mention a multitude of other parties, celebrations and family gatherings. Then the worst part the evilly delicious fat adding leftovers.

Next thing you know it’s January 1 and you wonder how in the world you lost that wonderful wonderfully responsive, energetic, healthy body went to.

The sluggish, heavy, chronically exhausted thing you now own does not feel like the same beast.

Does it have to be that way? Maybe not, but it seems it always is. Unless… unless you get intentional, before the madness starts, and make a series of decisions about how you’re going to cope with this dramatic upturning of your good and well-balanced life.

It’ll take a little work and discipline, but it’ll be worth it, even just to enter into the new year feeling good about yourself and about your body.

Start by putting together a realistic eating and exercise plan. It’s no good saying you’ll carry on as usual when you know you never will. You love Grandma’s pecan pie, and you’re not going to be able to say no to the fat slice she serves after thanksgiving dinner. You’re not going to be going on your evening run on Christmas eve, and you won’t be making your regular Friday hour at the gym on Black Friday. But… what can you do?

Decide in advance how much you want to eat. Give yourself permission to enjoy your favorite parts of the holidays, but don’t give yourself permission to pig out. Give yourself permission to take rest days, but don’t give yourself permission to stay away from gym all season long.

Set mini-goals, in the context of the holidays, that you can stick to and be proud of. Set rewards that matter.

That will get you almost there, almost to a January 1 you can be proud of. There’s one more thing you need to do.

Give away the leftovers. Don’t keep foods in the house—even holiday foods—that you don’t want to give yourself license to eat. It’s much easier to be disciplined with a refrigerator full of apples, oranges, and celery than when it’s full of eggnog, sweet potato casserole, and half-finished pies. It’s easier to have a handle on your diet when there aren’t trayfuls of Christmas cookies at your elbow.

If you do that—make a plan and stick to it, keep your house full of healthy eating options and your body moving, and give away or throw away your holiday leftovers– there’s no reason you can’t enter the new year feeling like that wonderful dynamic you that you’ve come to love.