I have eaten ate-en consumed food like an absolute pig this week. A snorting, snuffling food-all-down-the-front-of-me-because-I-can't-eat-fast-enough hog. I just didn't care, and so I ate whatever I darn well felt like. …

The world is against you during the Christmas season if you’re foolishly trying to maintain a diet, or follow an “alternate way of life” if you don’t like the word “diet.” And I don’t mean the world is passively trying t…