Have you got a new years weight loss resolution?

The reason so many new years weight loss resolutions fail is that they are usually made on account of the external optimism of making them on the new year. As if it were a required ritual of the special day, part of the event of the holidays, just like hanging tinsel on the Christmas tree.

To be successful a resolution needs to be internal. And when new years is just as good a day as virtually any to make one, making one just because it's new years is not. As a matter of fact, the custom may with time have actually hindered people success.

Why? Because according to some professionals only 8% of New Year's Resolutions are accomplished. (I have no clue how they calculate that, but it sounds true anyhow.)

The outcome is that we have as a society developed a "Failure Syndrome" around the topic of New Year's resolutions. We expect to fail and needless to say, we do.

After I finally quit smoking cigarettes after more than 100 attempts that failed, my main obstacle became controlling my habit of failure over the smoking habit. I eventually succeeded when I devised a strategy aimed at staying quit a specified period of time and then permitting myself to smoke cigarettes again, once I hit that limit. That took away, my sense that I was going to fail anyhow so I may as well have a cigarette now and also get it over with.

At present I don't know if that will work for anyone else, but it did for me.

The real key to setting a new years resolution weight loss, is not to concentrate on losing weight.

We have to think about resolutions not as wishes or even objectives.

We may wish we were thinner and more healthy. We may want to be x pounds, or perhaps x pounds by a specific date. But the real solution is not about what we want. It's about how we are going to get there.

A resolution is not a "Want to," it's a "How To." Exactly what are we going to do to attain the desired effects?

Therefore it may be important to think about the steps to making a resolution for a short time.

First of all, we must come to a realization that something should change in our lives. The key again is the first person, "we" meaning YOU.

Second, having accepted the need to make something take place, We (you) have to calculate what you will in fact need to do to achieve that something. The clearer you are on this "Plan" the better, but even a vague plan, if attainable and believable to the single 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 a decision - not a wish.

The resolution once made is delicate, like a newborn infant and needs nurture and care. In the beginning your own will power and commitment could be enough to sustain it and get you off to a start.

Your initial achievements can serve to encourage you to continue, but you have to see that success. And that indicates you need to monitor your progress. If you cannot measure it, it will be difficult to use that success to sustain your enthusiasm and commitment.

I hope you got the essence of this message, which is to appreciate that a resolution is not a wish, but nevertheless a plan.

I encourage you to think about your plan and how you will sustain it in the face of unavoidable occasional failure. Persistence is the key. Go for it.

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