The holiday season has come to an end, and as much as I will miss the smell of pine and the strings of glowing lights, there is one thing I am looking forward to leaving behind — all of the calories!

So much effort is put forth by many of us during the year to get to a point where we feel good about ourselves. Unfortunately, it is usually during the holiday season that a good portion of what we’ve done to get healthy is undone by the mounds of food we inevitably eat.

So what do we do about it?

Resuming our trips to the gym AND eating better than we have been is a hard pair of actions to tackle simultaneously, especially if we’ve abandoned both routines. While working out takes a lot of physical effort, cooking a healthy meal is on the opposite end of the spectrum…