In her latest GOOP newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow reveals how she is hoping to shed some pesky pounds she gained over the holidays. "I need to lose a few pounds of holiday excess. Anyone else?" she says. "I like to do fasts and detoxes a couple of times during the year, the most hardcore one being the Master Cleanse I did last spring. It was not what you would characterize as pretty. Or easy." ...

The holidays are all about eating too much. When we're not stuffing our gullets with breads and pies and roast beasts, we're nibbling on gingerbread houses and sifting through cookie tins and scarfing down egg nog festooned with enormous whipped cream peaks, ideally while shuffling around the kitchen in socks and sweatpants, moving only as much as is necessary to secure the next crunchy, sugary ...

It's a special pleasure on Christmas morning to open a present that reflects a real understanding of one's own interests and tastes.