Most people have cleared out their Christmas tree by now and holiday egg nog, rum cake and turkey with all of the trimmings are but a distant memory.
The bills are starting to roll in, along with that feeling of perhaps overdoing it yet again, and, as the new year begins to take shape, we are faced with that desire to do better, to pare back and cut down.
But for many of us this feeling lasts but a short while as evidenced by a poll taken early in 2014 which found a quarter of men broke their resolution to lose weight after one day.
Who can blame them?
Instead of dining on holiday delicacies, we're back to the detoxing and juice cleanses; instead of spending on gifts, clothes, new phones and TVs at Christmas, we're now supposed to cut back our spending and start putting something away for RRSP season.
It's a boom and bust cycle that's hard on the nerves, which is why most people simply ignore the traditional New Year's resolution in favour of, well, moderation.
Perhaps, that's the best resolution of all.
