New Year's resolutions can be easy to make, yet easy to break, and frustrating when we break them. According to statistics, over 60% of people make New Year's resolutions, yet less than 10% of these actually succeed in achieving them. Yikes! (yet not surprising). Web sites galore have articles aimed at helping us stick to our good intentions, so I've linked to a bunch of them below.
Losing weight is the most common New Year's resolution (staying fit is #5), and it requires change. Long-term, permanent even.
However, forcing yourself onto a restricting diet you can't possibly keep over the long term makes "failure" almost inevitable. As medical blogger Yoni Freedhoff, MD writes, "don't forget that the more weight you'd like to permanently lose, the more of your life you'll need to permanently change".
Losing weight is important to many people, but it's not falling off a log.
Making a substantial and desiredsacrifice change in your lifestyle doesn't happen overnight, or even by the end of January.
It's a process.
Maintaining the good and improving the less-good are daily activities, not ones that start on a given holiday date and end after a given number of days or months.
Good philosophy, right?

However, forcing yourself onto a restricting diet you can't possibly keep over the long term makes "failure" almost inevitable. As medical blogger Yoni Freedhoff, MD writes, "don't forget that the more weight you'd like to permanently lose, the more of your life you'll need to permanently change".

Making a substantial and desired
Maintaining the good and improving the less-good are daily activities, not ones that start on a given holiday date and end after a given number of days or months.
Good philosophy, right?