Weight Loss and New Years’ Resolutions Part 2
By: Dr. Adrian Granite
I hope you enjoyed the first part. Here are a few more tips to help achieve your goals:
3. Ask for help! Becoming a healthier person is not always easy. Sometimes people need the guidance of health coaches, nutritionists or doctors. Nowadays, marketing firms are very clever. Commercials and deceptive labeling strategies have made it very difficult to know what is good for you and what is not. From my experience, if it has to make a health claim, it is usually hiding something. Kale doesn’t make health claims, the cereal Lucky Charms does.
4. Stick to your routine. When something comes up, such as a holiday or traveling, don’t let it affect your routine. If you are away from your gym or it is closed, put on a pair of running shoes and go. If you are traveling for work, most hotels have gyms which have some standard equipment. When you’re back in town, get right back into your normal cycle and don’t tell yourself that you will wait till Monday, because Monday becomes the following Monday, and so on. There’s no time like the present!
5. My favorite tip of all, Now What? So you’ve met your goal of losing 15 pounds in 2 months which allowed you to fit into your old clothes. That is great, but this is where many people lose the overall point. You have to keep with your new routine. You need to create new health and fitness goals. Plan on running a 5K, an 8K, maybe even a half marathon. Go rock climbing or hike a mountain. Pick up cycling and ride all over Cape Cod. Compete in your first CrossFit competition. There are endless goals to create, you just have to get the first one out of the way. You don’t want to stop, just to start again next January with the same, original resolution.
January is an exciting time, other than the cold weather and snow. It’s a new year that is filled with endless possibilities. Don’t sit on the couch and watch them pass. Get out there and experience something different!
