If you’re like most of us, you’ve pushed your body to the limit this holiday season. You spent more time lifting cocktail glasses than weights and there was more debauchery going on than downward dogs. Now that we’re into the new year, get a new you going with a trip to one of these San Francisco Bay Area spas.

The average American gains six pounds during the holiday season. We asked Mallory Gaston, co-founder and CEO of Body Mechanix Fitness Cooperative, to give us six tips for how to lose holiday pounds.

Although the majority of people don’t keep their New Year resolutions, that doesn’t stop Burr Leonard, fitness expert and founder of The Bar Method and Bar Online, from making them—and it shouldn’t deter you either. Below she suggests nine doable new year’s resolutions: three for your body, three for your mind and three for your heart.

January 1 is a day where we can forget the past and make a fresh start. Rather than leave it all up to fate, how about eating a delicious meal to increase your chances of good fortune in 2015? Throughout the world, there are many foods that are believed to be lucky and to improve one’s odds for the next 365 days (and many are also foods that are good for you too). San Francisco Bay Area chefs are getting in on the action and offering up some dishes with good fortune foods to start the New Year on a tasty–and lucky–note (hey, it can’t hurt!).

If you plan to party like it’s 1999 on Dec. 31, 2014 then you won’t want to wake up Jan. 1 and wrack your brain trying to figure out where you can eat. It’s best you plan now. We’ve got six haute San Francisco brunch spots to cure your new year’s eve hangover on New Year’s Day. If you need a little hair of the dog, well, these places can handle that request as well.

As the year comes to a close, we look back at the five best San Francisco restaurants to open in 2014. If you haven’t eaten at them yet, you’ll certainly want to check them out soon as they will only get busier as the word continues to spread for a couple of them in particular.

We’re just a few days away from New Year’s Eve, the night when you go big or go home. Now is the time for you to step out in style, literally. Whether your NYE outfit calls for fringe, glitter or feathers, here are 10 haute party shoes to take a fashionista like you from 2014 into 2015.

Ken Fulk and Anna Weinberg share eight tips for how to throw New Year’s Eve party in style while chef Jennifer Puccio provides her recipe for English pea pancakes.

Chef Talk with Parke Ulrich, executive chef of the Waterbar and EPIC Roasthouse in San Francisco. He also shares a recipe for Dungeness crab benedict.