A few weeks ago, when the holiday season was under way, you were feeling energized and pepped up, looking forward to all the festivities and celebrations.

But now, as you begin 2012, all that vim and vigor might have given way to sluggishness and exhaustion.

As holidays come around, whether it’s Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, or even Valentine’s, when you know there’s some chance chocolate will be involved in your day, you may start to feel some anxiety about how you’ll make it through with your diet intact.

It probably doesn't come as news to anyone that the sluggish economy is, literally, a real downer. In fact, studies show that – not surprisingly – a depressed economy makes us depressed as well. According to a new survey by New York-based market research company Euro RSCG Worldwide, 45 percent of male respondents and 33 percent of women say that the current economic situation negatively affects their mood.