Happy New YOU!
01/10/10 07:15 AM
Happy New Year! Or should I say Happy New YOU!
January is the time of New Year’s resolutions, the time when we decide yet again to get into shape and eat healthfully. But as you know, this New Year’s motivation only lasts about 2 weeks, and then we pop back into our old patterns.
So how do you make a change for the New Year?
Here are a few tips that may help:
1. Make a public commitment. Tell everyone you know that you are losing x amount of weight. Create some leverage on yourself so that when the 2 week motivation dissipates, you will still stay on track.
2. Team up with a friend. Get a friend to go walking with you, or join an exercise class with a friend. Having accountability will help and often insure that you stay on track.
3. Get some help. Hire a personal trainer, or weight loss counselor to help you get to where you want to be. Expertise helps. A personal trainer or a weight loss counselor can give you insights and strategies to get you where you want to be faster. Also, you are accountable to your trainer or counselor and that also helps keep you on track.
4. Commit to doing some sort of exercise everyday. Write it into your schedule, be it a fast walk, 15 minutes of Yoga, or a Spin class. Doing just a little bit of exercise everyday will keep you focused on your fitness goals and you will feel great. Just make sure you don’t overdo it. Take at least one day off from rigorous exercise. Let that be your 15 minutes of stretching day.
5. Recover faster. Get back on track faster. Losing weight and getting into shape is a process. Life happens and you are going to miss a workout, or eat a little too much. When this happens the key is to get back on track faster. If you eat inappropriately at one meal, make sure you are back on track at the the next meal. Often, when people go off track, they go off track for days! And this brings them back to square one. If you get back on track immediately, you really aren’t off track. So recover fast and stay on track.
January is the time of New Year’s resolutions, the time when we decide yet again to get into shape and eat healthfully. But as you know, this New Year’s motivation only lasts about 2 weeks, and then we pop back into our old patterns.
So how do you make a change for the New Year?
Here are a few tips that may help:
1. Make a public commitment. Tell everyone you know that you are losing x amount of weight. Create some leverage on yourself so that when the 2 week motivation dissipates, you will still stay on track.
2. Team up with a friend. Get a friend to go walking with you, or join an exercise class with a friend. Having accountability will help and often insure that you stay on track.
3. Get some help. Hire a personal trainer, or weight loss counselor to help you get to where you want to be. Expertise helps. A personal trainer or a weight loss counselor can give you insights and strategies to get you where you want to be faster. Also, you are accountable to your trainer or counselor and that also helps keep you on track.
4. Commit to doing some sort of exercise everyday. Write it into your schedule, be it a fast walk, 15 minutes of Yoga, or a Spin class. Doing just a little bit of exercise everyday will keep you focused on your fitness goals and you will feel great. Just make sure you don’t overdo it. Take at least one day off from rigorous exercise. Let that be your 15 minutes of stretching day.
5. Recover faster. Get back on track faster. Losing weight and getting into shape is a process. Life happens and you are going to miss a workout, or eat a little too much. When this happens the key is to get back on track faster. If you eat inappropriately at one meal, make sure you are back on track at the the next meal. Often, when people go off track, they go off track for days! And this brings them back to square one. If you get back on track immediately, you really aren’t off track. So recover fast and stay on track.
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