New Year's Resolution Tips - and my goals

'Tis the time of the year when people make all kinds of resolutions and usually one is to loose weight, and the other major resolution is to Quit Smoking.

Here are some tips to help you on your resolution. "As quoted or rewritten from the Mencinnatian issue January 2006.

1. BE REALISTIC:  Don't confuse reasonable expectations with realistic ones.  By reasonable I mean make sense.  Possiby set one expectation at a time.
2. SET SPECIFIC GOALS:  Have a step by step plan to achieve your goals because will there is a motivation there is a way.
3. WRITE IT DOWN:  Make a step by step plan.  This increases your commitment to achieving your resolution.
4. TELL OTHER PEOPLE:  Again this is another commitment for accountability.  Select people who you wish to be critical and offers support towards your goal.
5. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM:  See if there is someone else trying to set the same goal as you and partner up.
6. ELIMINATE ENERGY VAMPIRES:  One reason you fall off diets and exercise programs is that you need a quick fix every time you deal with negative people or a no win situations.  These can be so exhausting that you say "the heck with your goal for commitments and throw it out the window.  Find a way to reduce contact with these people and situations and you'll dramatically increase your energy and be able to stay on track.
7. STICK WITH IT: It has been said that is takes 30 days to change a behavior so it becomes a habit and then a total of 6 months for that habit to become natural part of your personality.

With the above information what do you think your New Year's resolution will be?  Here are mine.

1. Make the members in the family accountable for their own actions or inactions. (Cleaning up after themselves)
2. Get a new mattress for two bedrooms.
3. Maintain this diet journey and try to loose 12 lbs this year.

For now that is about it.  Small resolutions that are attainable and reasonable for me to accomplish, I believe.  REMEMBER TO PRAISE ALL YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT STEPS.

Take care all and God bless

Here you go CC: Friends,

Share your stories.

1. Continue along my weightloss journey and reach my goal of 140 lbs by June 1st.

2. Drop this awful smoking habit. I smoked for 13 years, and I quit for 2. Just started again a couple of months ago and I hate it, but I'm addicted again.

3. Start getting up earlier and make it part of my routine to actually wake up at least 1 hour before I need to leave for work.

Veggiedoodle: Have you set a date when you would like to be clean of smoking again? Also, by getting up early is there anything special you are going to do with that hour?  Read, exercise, or simply get relaxed by eating a good breakfast and watching/listening to the news.

I don't know what you currently weigh but it is reasonable to say you will loose between .5 -1lb a week if you are healthy with no medical conditions to thwart off, so you can determine if your goal is REASONABLE,  This is the general guidelines that my doctor stated.  But for me he altered them to a lb a month.

Best of luck!  And keep us posted on how you are doing.

Take care and God Bless.

1) stop snacking so much or just snack and eat small meals

2) get down to 105 by march 20th and maintain it

3)stop bingeing and eat healthy

I am also trying to get up earlier and take advantage of that quiet, peaceful time before the day has begun. I've been trying to use that time to get a head start on my homework, so that by the time I get to class at 8 or 9 I've already made progress for the day. So...

1.) Work "down" to a 5:30 a.m. wake up (bedtime around 10:30) and do something useful with those extra couple of hours ... but first spend a half an hour sipping coffee, making breakfast, reading, etc.

2.) Lose the final 3 pounds of the freshman 15 and keep them off (I'm a junior now!)

3.) Work up to running at least 4 miles at a time

4.) Generally feature more fruits and veggies and fewer times of over-indulging in sweets!

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Great goal setting! Now, make sure you post it somewhere that you can see it daily.   Congratulations  you all for setting goals. That is the first step to success.

Take care all God Bless.