Tricks on How to Stay Committed to your Resolutions
By Nmami Agarwal 03-Jan 2020 Reading Time: 6 Mins
New Year’s resolutions are a time-honoured tradition all across the world. Each one of us hope for a better and a happy future. Resolutions you make may be related to your health, wealth and lifestyle. It’s hard to keep up to your resolutions especially related to your health after you ate all those sugar-laden foods and drinks, but it’s not impossible. This year, try to stick with the following tricks and stay committed to the resolutions that you have made. Here’s to your health!
Long term weight loss goals – In today’s time, every one of us is going crazy behind losing weight. We tend to make larger goals that are not realistic to achieve. Therefore, always look for making shorter weight loss goals which are easy for you to achieve. You must aim for obtaining sustainability and follow something that will suit your lifestyle. In that way, you will be able to maintain your weight on one hand and thereby helping you stick to the resolution on the other.
No fad diets- Almost every of one us are becoming health conscious and are into following certain kind of diets. Nowadays fad diets such as low carbs diet, keto diet, paleo diet, and south beach diet are very much in fashion. These diets promise to provide you with drastic weight loss but little do you about the harmful effects they do to your body. The results may be quick but the weight loss achieved would not be a sustainable one. Therefore, just because a diet is effective for weight loss does not mean it is suitable and sustainable for the long term. You must keep in mind that to achieve and maintain your weight loss goal, it is important to find a healthy way of eating that you enjoy following and something that you follow for a lifetime.
Build a support system (like including friends, family) – Health should not only be an individual goal but a family goal. As it is always said that a child will always learn and adapt to the habits of what their parents and peers do. So, parents should always act as role models for their children and adapt healthy lifestyle and eating patterns in order to motivate them. Therefore, try and build healthy roots of your family so that the fruit that you bore is also sweet.
Keep yourself surrounded by motivating people. Don’t expect short cuts- The other trick that you can follow to stick your health resolution is to have positive vibes around you which could help you to be targeted towards your goal or resolution. You can get this positivity from your family, peers or anybody whom you think can act as your strength. Keep yourself surrounded by motivating people so that your light of enthusiasm doesn’t dim. You cannot expect shortcuts to your ultimate goal as it is a journey that should be filled with motivation along with hard work. So, be firm and work towards your resolution and stick to it.
Keep some time for your hobbies – Your hobbies are your passion, something that you do to keep yourself happy and relieved. So, don’t completely get submerged or become serious in achieving your goal. Keep it simple, joyous and fun too so that you enjoy working towards your goal. Lack of interest and enthusiasm will only hamper your success. So, make sure that you account for your own interests and hobbies at the foremost.
Over to you:
Festive time is around the corner, so fasten your seat belts and follow the above-mentioned tricks to make this year an amazing one and kick start your car towards the attainment of a healthy lifestyle.