Thank you for reading my blog!!!! It's been a fun 5 months. I have a favor to ask- if you've found my blog motivating, entertaining, scary, etc., let me give your friends reasons to reach their fitness goals too. In other words- TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT MY BLOG, please. Like us, many of them are probably going to be attempting healthy lifestyle changes in 2011, so hopefully it will give them more motivation...the more, the better. There's my shameless plug.
Now, about new year's resolutions. A New York Times article by Tara Parker-Pope entitled "Will Your Resolutions Last Until February?" published on 12/31/07 reports the results of a Franklin Covey poll of 15,000 customers about their new year's resolutions. Bleak results:
"Four out of five people who make New Year’s resolutions tonight will eventually break them. In fact, a third won’t even make it to the end of January...The top resolutions for 2008 are the old standbys — get out of debt and save more, lose weight and exercise. Getting organized and spending more time with family also top the list.
Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed attribute breaking their resolutions to having too many other things to do, while 33 percent say they simply aren’t committed to the resolutions they set."
She goes on to state the potential reason: "...experts say the real problem is that people make the wrong resolutions. The typical resolution often reflects a general desire, rather than a specific goal."
There it is again, that pesky goal business. Here's my recommendation: in terms of fitness resolutions and goals, make one difficult but attainable goal for the year. Make it as specific as possible (for example, "I'm going to lose 30 lbs by May, averaging about 2 lbs per week until I get there"), then tell everyone you know about it. Seriously, tell everyone. This will add a level of social accountability and help you find allies. As a reminder, my personal fitness goal is 6 by 6 (a six-pack by June).
If you can't find anyone sympathetic to your goal (which is very unlikely), just remember who you have in your corner: good ol' me, Slim Goodbody, Captain Vegetable, Richard Simmons, and Carrot Top (because he has huge muscles now).
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