The Problem with January

• Detox Pushers - why would I try to give up everything I love in the most depressing month of the year?
• Finding the motivation to exercise is hard enough. Having to do it in the dark is brutal.
• You look as sallow as an old white towel.
• It's followed by February.
• Feels as if you are half way through winter. In reality it's only just begun.
• Sherlock has finished.
• The house is cluttered with gifts you didn't want.
• All the fun (not doing any work) in December comes back to bite you.
• Even eating has lost its appeal.
• Pay day is a mirage that never seems to get any closer.
• You are at the furthest point from a summer holiday.
• Having more homemade chutney in your fridge than actual food.
• People insist on saying 'happy new year', long after the happiness and newness have gone out of it.
• Already tired of hearing how 'we are going to leverage the jubilee/Olympics/euros'. Us and everybody else.
• You don't even get the pleasure of writing a date with a new year anymore.
• Eating left-over mince pies/chocolate/Christmas cake out of obligation rather than desire.
• No retail therapy.