New Year's Resolutions 2017

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It's nearly that time of year where people make outlandish and elaborate commitments to stop doing stuff. Or, occasionally, start doing stuff. Either way, they generally end in (not so) glorious failure.

I can't remember making New Year's Resolutions since I was a nipper, but having seen family a bit over Christmas, they inevitably seemed to ask if I had any for the coming year.

As luck would have it, I don't.

Anyone else into the whole 'new year, new me' type thing?

 
Not really, I'll be fully back in the gym come Monday.... I'm hoping for a good run at it after several issues rudely interrupting me from August onward this year.

And I'm booked to walk and crawl a marathon in October 2017. That'll be tough. But tougher than Ben Nevis? Doubt it.
 
LOL I'm here JPA so will that help? Me get back into lifestyle change once we get back from Wales on Tuesday. The plan starts from Wednesday.

With all that has happened this year especially since July with Mr KK's health, lifestyle change and exercise has gone out of the window. I am stuck at the weight I was after I came back from holiday plus any pounds I have put on over Christmas.

They need to go and some more: aim to be at least half a stone lighter than when I went on holiday this year. I would like to say more than at least half a stone however I am not putting myself under that pressure.

If I start talking big numbers it will overwhelm me. I aim to lose it 1lb at a time, as that is how it should be. 1lb at a time consistently. I find if I break things up into bite size chunks then it is a whole lot easier to to do, than saying ''right I am going to lose XYZ before our holidays''

Anything else? That will do for now. I am not big into New Years resolutions as they get broken. This 1 though is just more about ''right lets go into next year on the right foot'' rather than be a NY resolution

 
I don't make them and it's a pet peeve people declaringing they'll change this or that starting the 1st January. Also why do people think their luck will change at the stroke of midnight etc.
 
We have resolved to not have cake, chocolate or other sweets in the house other than special occasions. We did the same a few years ago and it worked really well so we decidede to do it again. If nothing else it gived the kids a chance to see a goal being put in plpace and achieved.

 
SKEGGY - 30/12/2016 22:10

I don't make them and it's a pet peeve people declaringing they'll change this or that starting the 1st January. Also why do people think their luck will change at the stroke of midnight etc.
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For me, the end of the year is a line in the sand. There is no significance in the date. I don't expect to be a completely different person on January 1st. The end of the year seems a natural time to take stock and figure out what you could be doing better.
 
BodyButter - 30/12/2016 14:32

SKEGGY - 30/12/2016 22:10

I don't make them and it's a pet peeve people declaringing they'll change this or that starting the 1st January. Also why do people think their luck will change at the stroke of midnight etc.
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For me, the end of the year is a line in the sand. There is no significance in the date. I don't expect to be a completely different person on January 1st. The end of the year seems a natural time to take stock and figure out what you could be doing better.
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:1: :1: :1: good summary about what it is for us too, I think
 
The end of the year is the first week in April if you're an accountant or work for HMRC. Also isn't the end of everyone's year the day before their birthday?
 
SKEGGY - 30/12/2016 17:20

The end of the year is the first week in April if you're an accountant or work for HMRC. Also isn't the end of everyone's year the day before their birthday?
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LOL then ofcourse you have the Chinese end of year, astrology year end/start etc.
 
Sasquatch - 30/12/2016 23:41

I aim to be the Aston villa manager by 2018.
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You may have had a chance if Lerner and Fox were still knocking around :19:

I will confirm I have made no resolutions as such (or 'revolutions' as my youngest calls them!) but I'm looking to have a 'dry' January at the very least.

 
I get the drawing a line in the sand stuff.

Also, after the eating and drinking indulgences at the Xmas time, the new year sort of gives people the 'right, time to stop that and get sorted again'.

But people should be able to hit re-start every day really, not wait for a New Year..!
 
The Fear - 1/1/2017 17:58

I get the drawing a line in the sand stuff.

Also, after the eating and drinking indulgences at the Xmas time, the new year sort of gives people the 'right, time to stop that and get sorted again'.

But people should be able to hit re-start every day really, not wait for a New Year..!
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It's about retraining the thinking JF and not everyone knows or wants to know how to do that.

In the beginning of recovery the mantra was ''just for today; I can do something for 1 day that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime'' Then you reaffirm that the next day and so on until it becomes away of life
 
It is, setting a specific date can be good but it can also be massively limiting when people saying I'm getting fit starting from next week for instance. The intention is good but then before that 'next week' comes they think they can indulge .. thus undoing the good intention that isn't always followed through on
 
Apparently, I have completed 11,974 steps so far today.

I'm happy with that, considering it was such a poor day weather-wise and I only went out twice.

 
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