Have you got a new years weight loss resolution?

The main reason so many new years weight loss resolutions fail is that they are often made due to the external expectation of making them on the new year. As though it were a required ritual of the day, part of the event of the holidays, just like hanging tinsel on the Christmas shrub.

To be successful a resolution must be internal. And while new years is as good a day as any to make one, making one just because it's new years is not. In fact, the custom may with time have actually obstructed people success.

Why? Because as reported by some experts only 8% of New Year's Resolutions are achieved. (I have no idea how they calculate that, but it rings true anyhow.)

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

When I finally quit smoking after more than 100 attempts that failed, my biggest obstacle became controlling my habit of failure over the smoking habit. I ultimately succeeded when I devised a technique aimed at staying quit a definitive period of time and then allowing myself to smoke again, once I hit that limit. That took away, my sense that I was going to fail anyway so I may as well have a cigarette now and also get it over with.

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

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

We need to think about resolutions not as wishes or even goals.

We may wish we were thinner and healthier. We may want to be x pounds, or perhaps x pounds by a specific date. But the real solution is not on what we want. It's about how we are going to make it happen.

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

So it may be important to think about the steps to making a resolution for a moment.

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

Next, having accepted the need to make something happen, We (you) need to calculate what you will actually need to do to achieve that something. The clearer you are on this "Plan" the better, but even a sketchy plan, if attainable and believable to the single person that matters is okay. (Incidentally, that's you again.)

Finally, the critical step is that you actually decide to do it. This is certainly a decision - not a wish.

The resolution once made is fragile, like a newborn infant and needs nurture and care. Initially your own will power and commitment may be enough to sustain it and get you off to a start.

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

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

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

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