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Just a month ago, many of us resolved to make changes in our lives and break bad habits. Yet many gyms, health food stores and weight loss centers are practically empty these days compared to the hustle and bustle of just a couple of weeks ago. What happened?
Improving your health is a lifestyle choice.
Thinking of improved fitness or weight loss or even chiropractic care as a short term “diet,” rather than a long-term lifestyle decision is the problem. If you, or someone you know, went overboard in the New Year’s resolution department there’s still hope. Let’s consider some ideas that’ll help us choose, and more importantly, keep healthy new habits:
Believe in your ability to change. Keeping old habits and forming new ones are choices that you control.
Don’t blame yourself or make excuses. Instead of giving up after a relapse, dust yourself off and recommit to your goal.
Concentrate on measurable results. Track your progress. Don’t be dissuaded by ups and downs.
Know why the resolution is important. See yourself as already having achieved the goal.
Make change a long-term lifestyle decision. Abandoning unhealthy habits requires thinking long term. Let’s put all of these ideas in action and recommit to our healthy new habits for 2008.
