Understand the Hidden Costs of Your Resolutions Before Starting
In on Them  Some of the most common New Year's resolutions
people make are to decrease their debt (or get out entirely) and
to lose weight or get healthy. Before you embark on either of
those, make sure that the other isn't getting in the way and
you're not spending money losing weight. You can have both, you
just have to be careful.  Over at US News Money, Geoff Williams
explains that many people, rushing to get to the gym or start
eating better in the new year, wind up tiring themselves out
because they spend a ton of time and money at the beginning of
the month signing up for memberships, weight loss programs, and
start buying expensive diet food from expensive grocery stores.
While there's nothing wrong with working out and eating better,
one doctor Williams interviewed for the piece put it simply:
"Produce is produce, and an apple's nutritional value doesn't
increase if it's bought at an expensive grocery store."  The
piece walks through som