new years

You know the drill -- new year, new year resolutions. Sure, they're easy to say, but keeping them? Well, that's something else entirely.

New Year's Eve is right around the bend, so why not make a splash when it comes to uncorking a bottle of bubbly?

My social media feeds are full of everybody's new year's resolutions. My email in-box is overflowing with tips and products to help anyone achieve any goal, from the 10 resolutions for the fiscally savvy to celebrity slim-down secrets. Whatever about me needs changing, help is just a click away.

New Year's Day 2014! The beginning of a new year marks a chance for us to set up our goals for the upcoming 365 days. For some it is treated as a new beginning or, what I like to call, 'a reset.' A chance to improve on some things in your life and set you on a path that you've been wanting.

We are all aware that at 12 Midnight on New Years Eve the giant crystal ball drops in Times Square to ring in the new year. What you might not know is that other cities all around the United States have things they drop (or raise) at Midnight to celebrate the beginning of the new year.

Now that the year has been going for over a month, I wonder where the state of resolutions are now for the majority of people.  I usually don’t make them.  I guess I am too lazy, but I also don’t see the New Year as much different as the last year.  Again, I am lazy on this issue, but this year, or last year, I decided to do it.  I was going to make a resolution.

I went to the grocery store on Saturday, (I really had to be crazy it was New Year's Eve).  I wanted to get a few things to cook an very unhealthy but delicious New Year's Day dinner.  This is a meal I haven't cooked in ages and I didn't have any of the ingredients.  I was cooking up chicken fried steaks, potatoes, gravy and of course black-eyed peas.  I was amazed at how much the cost of some of

The hangover has subsided, and the noise makers and funny hats have been thrown away, so now New Year’s revelers are just left with the resolutions they made when the clock struck midnight. Unfortunately, most of us may even throw those out as well.

Hangovers have long been the price of a night of overindulgence — and come January 1, you may be feeling the effects of one yourself. So how can you make it a little less painful?

As you start to think about your New Year’s diet (really, don’t we all have one planned?), a small Norwegian study has found a little eating between meals won’t necessarily torpedo your weight-loss goals.