Tis the season for family, gift-opening and that obligatory Christmas dinner of high-fat, high-calorie food. A Christmas celebration without sabotaging your fitness goals is seemingly impossible especially with that turkey, but before you give in to your feral instincts to abandon all reason, there is hope. All it takes to outsmart your Christmas dinner is a little discipline and a lot of strategy.

In an ideal world, everyone would gather around the dining table, feast on an unforgettable Christmas spread, sip warm mulled wine over carols, and then go home looking and feeling like a million dollars. But the reality is that we’re going to feel bloated, hungover and extremely guilty. To help prevent that dreaded post-Christmas dinner walk of shame, we’ve come up with a few useful hacks in which you can have your apple pie, and eat it too.