Today represents the final day of 2001 — an interesting, amazing, totally unforgettable year. The next few hours offer the final opportunity to ‘indulge till you bulge’ before that big ball drops on Times Square and life as you know it changes dramatically.
Never mind that you’ve been indulging since you ripped open that first package of Halloween candy back in October. Never mind that you gobbled your way through Thanksgiving and on into December. Never mind that your pants don’t fit quite right any more. Today’s not a day for worry — today represents your last chance to celebrate the holiday season before those pesky resolutions arrive at midnight to spoil the fun.
Today’s the day to eat up the leftover holiday cookies and candy. Clean out the refrigerator and make sure all of the sugar, fat and especially the eggnog are consumed. Absolutely no healthy food should be ingested today. Tomorrow comes soon enough and the food police will be out in force come sunrise.
Unless well-established habit demands activity, limit your exercise to dancing around the house — preferably to Auld Lang Syne — a nice slow song guaranteed not to raise your heart rate, or make you break a sweat.
Take a nap.
Watch a bit of Dick Clark and retire early enough to get a good night’s rest. Jan. 1, 2002 will be here soon enough, bringing with it promises to eat healthy, exercise and use our mental faculties to their fullest. For one and all, may it be a welcome opportunity to start a better year.
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