New Year’s Resolutions You Will Want To Keep

Written by: Natasha Daguio

The beginning of a new year always brings new resolutions.  Usually, resolutions center on getting healthy and losing some unwanted weight.  Unfortunately, without a game plan, support and the proper tools, many people lose their way by February.  Below we have provided some healthy tips that you can use every day to help with your commitment to becoming healthier.

Step 1
Look for healthy eating options and long term fitness goals rather than fad diets. While drastically cutting calories can help you lose weight, it’s hardly a long-term solution. Once you go off of a strict, low-calorie diet, you are, unfortunately, very likely to gain back your lost weight. Instead, educate yourself on healthy eating and commit to some sort of physical activity 3-5 days a week.

Step 2
Cook at home at least once per week for an easy start to better health and diet. Too often eating out becomes the norm because it is easier. Restaurant food can often contain preservatives, excess calories and chemicals that can be very harmful to your health in the long term. By cooking at home just once a week you are promoting better health. 

Step 3
Ask a friend to make a diet and exercise resolution with you, or hire a trainer! When you simply resolve to finally lose the weight, it’s easy to fall off of the wagon in February when you’re the only one who knows about your new commitment to health. By enlisting the help of a friend who is also trying to eat healthier or a personal trainer, you make yourself accountable to someone. This will help give you the support you need to stick to your goals.
Having someone to work out with you, to help you search for healthy recipes and step on that scale with can be the key factor in your success!

Step 4
Visualize your success to stay on track.  While summer is still several months away, visualizing how you want to look in a swim suit or how active you want to be with your kids can help you achieve success.

Step 5
Start your healthy-eating plan now. Waiting until the end of the day/week/month to make your resolution to lose weight may cause you to eat more, exercise less and gain more weight as your “last hurrah” before changing your eating. Instead, start today, you will feel better tomorrow!