keeping your new year's resolutions, posted by jeffry schneider
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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