Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

Posted by Jeffry

Schneider

Be realistic

• Make resolutions that are practical!• You won’t lose 60 lbs over six weeks,

but 1-2 lbs is perfectly reasonable

Break it down

• Breaking down your long-term goals into more manageable short-term chunks lets you celebrate small milestones!

• You want to break down your resolutions into reachable, concrete goals

Don’t go overboard• Make sure you’re not

overloading yourself!• Take one step at a time so

you don’t get overwhelmed!

• Once you’ve taken one step, you can move onto the next one

Start !a diary • If you start a

diary that records your feelings, you’ll be able to identify those triggers, and think of new ways to cope with them

• Emotional triggers often cause us to relapse into bad habits

Be simple• Make your health

and fitness steps simple and easy to repeat over and over again

• Instead of cooking a new, elaborate healthy breakfast every morning, stick to one simple recipe that you can replicate every day

Tell people

• If you tell friends and family about your goals, it will encourage you to stick with them to save face

Find !a !buddy

• Find somebody else with the same goals as you and team up with them!

• This will offer an extra bit of support, and help your chances of success improve overall

Accept setbacks

• Lapses are a natural part of the process!

• It’s only inevitable that you won’t always be able to resist temptation!

• Don’t beat yourself up, but accept that it’s all part of the learning process

Treat yourself

• By rewarding yourself, you can “fix” new healthy habits!

• Reward yourself for your first few steps so your new healthy habit becomes ingrained!

• Make your rewards small and enjoyable, and they’ll serve as a great incentive