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January 13, 2005
Upholding Your Resolutions
Find yourself slacking on your New Year’s Resolution to lose weight? Try these 5 tips to get back on track.
1. Make a goal. Be sure it is specific and realistic. Write it on a notecard and post it on your fridge. This way you can continually remind yourself of why you are making all of this effort.
2. Logs. Keep food and activity logs by writing down everything you eat and drink and how much/what type of exercise you do each day. This will hold you accountable and help you identify patterns (when/what/why you eat and are active).
3. Stay active. One of the most important determinants of weight loss is your activity level. Most people don’t realize how inactive they are in their daily lives. A good way to monitor your activity level is by wearing a pedometer. It will count the number of steps you take and miles you make. At the end of the day you’ll know where you stand.
4. Get support. Surround yourself with encouraging friends and family members. It’s a lot easier to keep your resolutions when you don’t feel like an outcast or different from everyone else. Who knows? Maybe you’ll start a new trend and everyone will walk with you on their break or order their salad dressing on the side.
5. Reward yourself. Find something that is important to you (besides food) and use it as a reward for meeting your daily/weekly/monthly goals. Rewards could be a manicure, pedicure, massage, money to put in a jar, new exercise clothes/equipment, cookbook, tickets to a sporting event, or new tennis shoes.
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.�
--Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Posted by Lisa at January 13, 2005 08:12 AM
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