However, as someone who has squandered an embarrassing amount of my life???s energy worrying about my weight or experimenting with absurd diet lunacies, such as the egg and tomato diet, the all-the-carbs-you-can-eat-in-an-hour diet, and the morning papaya-wheatgrass smoothie diet, I no longer let the calendar taunt me into reckless behaviors such as group weight loss competitions.