Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
“Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.”
“I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.”