Starving yourself before Thanksgiving isn't a good idea. Not only would you be too mentally exhausted to eat, you're losing valuable practice time. It's like beer: you have to have SOMETHING in your stomach, or else it's going to end poorly. The less you eat, the smaller your stomach gets, which means less food.

I, on the other hand, don't have to do anything, except make sure that the parents don't touch the food.