I have wasted many precious hours in that time between Christmas and New Year convincing myself that I could lose 3 stone by March (nearly every year since the age of 21!), exercise before work every day, only eat bread on days that begin with a T, always deal with post (electronic or otherwise) immediately and efficiently … but without any real planning or understanding of what I was trying to achieve - setting myself up for failure and making me feel like a loser or lazy w