Suzanne Harrington: Keep it kaizen for real new year’s change

So here we are. Already embedded in the purge part of the annual binge-purge cycle, we are surrounded by those muttering about five times a week down the gym, smashing their own PBs (you hope they are talking about personal bests and not something you’d submit to in a sex dungeon), and generally giving up everything that tastes nice or contains gluten.

Everyone is doing Dry January, Veganuary, Gymanuary — monitoring their every dead lift, bench press, kilometre jogged and kale smoothie blitzed, into some whizzy little app designed to beep digital encouragement.