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New Years Resolutions And Weight Loss - A Sacrificed Mission?
Do you have a new years weight loss resolution?
The reason so many new years weight loss resolutions fail is that they are often made due to the external expectation of making them on the new year. As if it were an important ritual of the special day, part of the ceremony of the holidays, like hanging tinsel on the Christmas tree.
To be successful a resolution must be internal. And while new years is as good a day as virtually any to make one, making one simply because it's new years is not. As a matter of fact, the tradition may over time have actually hindered people success.
Why? Because as reported by some experts only 8% of New Year's Resolutions are achieved. (I have no clue how they estimate that, but it sounds true somehow.)
The result is that we have as a society developed a "Failure Syndrome" around the topic of New Year's resolutions. We anticipate to fail and sure enough, we do.
When I finally quit smoking cigarettes after more than 100 attempts that did not succeed, my main obstacle became overcoming my habit of failure more than the smoking habit. I eventually succeeded when I devised a technique aimed at staying quit a definitive period of time and then allowing myself to smoke cigarettes again, once I hit that limit. That took away, my feel like I was going to fail anyhow so I may as well have a cigarette now and get it over with.
Now I don't know if that will work for anyone else, but it did for me.
The actual key to setting a new years resolution weight loss, is not to focus on losing weight.
We need to think about resolutions not as wishes or even objectives.
We should wish we were thinner and more healthy. We may want to be x pounds, or even x pounds by a definite date. But the real solution is not about what we want. It's about how we are going to make it happen.
A resolution is not a "Want to," it's a "How To." What are we going to do to achieve the desired effects?
Therefore it may be vital to think about the steps to making a resolution for a short time.
First, we must come to a realization that something must change in our lives. The key again is the first person, "we" meaning YOU.
Next, having accepted the need to make something happen, We (you) need to calculate what you will in fact need to do to achieve that something. The apparent you are on this "Plan" the better, but even a vague plan, if realistic and believable to the sole person that matters is okay. (By the way, that's you again.)
Finally, the critical step is that you actually decide to do it. This is certainly a decision - not a wish.
The resolution once made is fragile, like a newborn infant and needs nurture and care. Initially your own will power and commitment could be enough to sustain it and take you off to a start.
Your initial achievements can serve to encourage you to continue, but you need to see that success. And that means you need to monitor your progress. If you cannot measure it, it will be difficult to use that success to sustain the enthusiasm and commitment.
I hope you got the gist of this message, which is to understand that a resolution is not a wish, but nevertheless a plan.
I encourage you to think about your plan and the way you will sustain it in the face of unavoidable occasional failure. Persistence is the key. Go for it.
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