Submitted by: Akon Regis
Each year people resolve to get healthier. These resolutions typically consist of things like “I want to lose a great deal of weight” or “from now on I’m only eating healthy foods.” Wanting to improve your health is a really good goal. The simple truth of the matter is that there are only a few people who don’t need to make improvements to their health. At the same time, it is easy to get very gung ho in relation to New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately most people try and do too much too quickly because they shed all of their motivation by February or March.
So how should someone decide to get healthy without trying to do too much too soon? There are a number of alternatives here. The first is always to go truly slowly and only generate little and easily achievable goals. The other approach says that it is a lot better to think in the long term and make plans for how to get there. Both techniques are excellent if you want to get healthy and accomplish the things you resolve. If you take something on “big picture” fashion, it is possible to break that down into smaller more easily achieved goals. Here are a handful of good examples.
A goal to get rid of 50lbs within the year, for example, can simply get broken down into a monthly goal of a little more than four pounds or a weekly goal of just a little bit more than one pound. One single pound weekly is all it requires. That’s doable. Simply cutting the soft drinks out of your diet is enough to help you get there. Obviously just cutting out soda probably will not be enough to reach the fifty pounds lost goal, but it may help you build momentum as you learn methods to keep off the pounds you shed each week.
If you are worried about animal rights and would like to go the vegan route, don’t try and do this all at once. It will damage your health to do this and the withdrawals the body will go through will make the transition much harder and you won’t be able to remain faithful to your new commitment. Start out by reducing one kind of meat. And next, after a number of weeks, cut out another type of meat. After you’ve ceased eating all of the major kinds of meat, work on cutting out the dairy products. Once you’ve mastered your dependence on dairy you can start looking for small ingredients in bigger foods which might be animal based (like the gelatin in jello, for example). This will help you learn what to search for on ingredients labels over a longer period of time (which will help you commit things to memory) and figure out what new things you can eat to make up for the foods that you’ve cut out.
There are wide ranging things that you can do to improve your health over the course of a year. New Year’s resolutions really are a good way to get determination to get started on the work you need to do. Small goals that get met through the months will help you stay inspired past the time of year you usually give up the resolutions.
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