Here come the low fat, low calorie dark dank dreaded days of January

You didn’t think about the 400 calories a square of Grandma’s fudge. And forget about being mindful of the 1,800 calories on the plate at Christmas dinner or those parties where you munched 3,000 of the make-you -feel-good-now-but-later-regret calories.

Sigh.

You are not alone. Diet pills, systems and plans spend millions of dollars with marketing firms in December dreaming up ways to remind you in January of what you ate. Even if people don’t say it out loud, most of us are guilty of wanting to lose weight after we lost the last page of our calendars.

I, among more educated, higher...