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Keeping Those New Year's Resolution Healthy Diet and Fitness Goals
Having trouble keeping those New Year’s resolutions to eat a healthy diet and get fit? You’re not alone. Many
people make New Year’s resolutions to eat a healthy diet and improve their fitness but start to waver a few weeks
after New Year’s. Even though it’s easy to resolve to get fit and healthy, it’s hard to stay committed to keeping
those New Year’s resolutions to start eating a healthy diet and to get fit. There are some easy ways to stay on
track and meet your goals of eating healthier and staying or getting fit.
Get the Family Involved
It sounds simple, but it can be difficult to get the whole household on board with your plans to eat healthier food
and get fit. It’s a lot easier to eat healthy meals when everyone in the family is eating the same healthy meals.
If you are the only one in the house trying to eat more healthy foods and you’re still preparing meals filled with
fried or high fat food for everyone else you’ll be tempted to eat what they’re eating. The same thing goes for
snacks. Eating a healthy snack of fruit or vegetables looks less appealing when everyone else is eating chips or
pizza.
Getting in the habit of exercising regularly will be easier if someone else in the family is exercising with
you. Try taking a walk around the neighborhood as a family or take your partner running with you. Exercising is
more fun when it’s not done alone. Many gyms and fitness centers offer special rates for families, so make time
during the week for the whole family to hit the gym and take a yoga class, go swimming, play basketball, or just
workout with weights. Joining a gym will make sure that there is an activity that everyone in the family will
enjoy. Having family support is the best way to keep those New Year’s resolutions to eat healthy and get fit.
Use the Calendar
It may sound like a wacky idea, but a great way to stay on track to meeting your New Year’s resolutions to eat
better and get fit is to get a large wall calendar, the type that shows the whole month or the whole year at one
time. Take a red or yellow marker and put a big “X” on the calendar everyday that you exercise, and use a different
colored market to put an “X” on each day that you eat healthy. After awhile, when your motivation starts to wane,
looking at the calendar and the chain of X’s will motivate you to exercise and eat healthy in order to keep the
chain going. The calendar can also help keep other family members motivated to eat better and exercise as well.
Reward Yourself
To help keep your motivation high to meet your New Year’s resolutions of eating healthy and getting fit reward
yourself when you meet particular goals. In the beginning, make a list of diet and fitness goals you want to
achieve. When you achieve them, reward yourself with a non food item like flowers, a new plant, new clothes, a new
workout DVD, a gym membership, or some other fun item that will help keep you motivated to keep going. A great
reward can be treating yourself to an introductory class in something that might become a new hobby for you. When
you lose five pounds, try taking a ceramics class, a horseback riding lesson, or a belly dancing class. When you
eat healthy for an entire month with no slip ups, take a healthy cooking class or a class on organic gardening.
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