ARE YOU STILL on that diet you started on Jan. 1? (Shutterstock).

It’s January 20. It’s time to celebrate or …. berate… the coming of Janu-weary.

Yes, that’s right. It’s the point in the first month of 2025 that we become weary of all those promises and efforts we pledged to take on with vigor in the new year.

First and foremost is the New Year’s Diet. Yes, you/we/I might have celebrated at the buffet a little too bodaciously, but now you are going to undo all that.

Except that this is the point where you conclude that you’ve been starving yourself since Jan. 1 and a) you haven’t lost a pound or b) you lost a few pounds, but – Santa Maria! – at this rate you won’t reach your weight-loss target until the Angels are mathematically eliminated from the MLB playoffs, which should come right around May 20.

Next up is weather. However much we commiserate with the folks in the other 98 percent of the Republic which is suffering under freezing winds, snow and 30 minutes of warming up the car, we certainly didn’t want to join them.

Let’s face it: we in SoCal and The OC are spoiled. The daily temps locally have been in the 60s and 40s overnight. That’s too bricking cold.

I mean, what good is it to diet and exercise so we can look good in a bathing suit or just a pair of shorts and a top if it’s too cold to dress that minimally? We want to have a little winter, but not one that lasts so long as it lasts past the NFL Conference Round of the playoffs.

There’s other stuff, too. Some of our favorite fruits and vegetables are out of season now, and they’re either not available at our groceries or are grown only in New Zealand and Chile and have to be shipped in on a slow boat and at great expense.

Of course, there’s not much we can do about that. As with wrinkles and acne, some things are just beyond our control. Like feeling Janu-weary.