Your New Year’s Resolution Might Kill You

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Resolutions

Resolutions are the little white lies most people, myself included, tell themselves in the hopes of lighting a fire under their kiesters to do something they know very well they probably won’t do without making it a thing. Resolutioners give it the old, college, 1-2 try, but most fail. A least by the end of January. Today, January 24, typically. (FYI, January 24 or the immediate days that precede or follow are also usually the days people receive their credit card bills showing how much they spent at Christmas).

Perhaps someone out there reading this may have actually pulled off the feat of following through – BRAVO! But let’s face it, the other 99.9999999% of us are saying….”but THIS year it’s really going to happen,” as if when we said those exact words last year they didn’t count. You are my people, and I welcome you. Please, take a seat on the couch, grab a bag of chips and follow along.

I know I need to lose weight. BUT, I don’t need to feel too bad over knowing that information and, once again, only recognizing that I know it. That tends to make me sad and put it off another year. Again. It’s a vicious, vicious cycle. Are you feeling my pain? Resolutions as we know them now are dangerous to our self image. How will we succeed if we only set ourselves up for failure?

Who wants to join me in 2017 with a resolution makeover? Gone will be the days of telling ourselves to be better than what we know we are. High hopes for idealistic life changes will go the way of the dinosaur because, really, is it worth the struggle for most of us? Let’s stop believing we aren’t living up to our potential and realize where we are IS our potential.

2017 should be about being ourselves! To knowing our limits but not denying our happiness. To stop having to justify our failures with colorful excuses. Here is to enjoying more! To relishing everything. To making ourselves happy on our own terms.

Now, I’m not saying I’m ditching the idea I need to lose weight. I want to be around for my daughter and enjoy and participate in that time. BUT, what good am I to her if I’m miserable?

From now on I WILL have a piece of pizza AND a cupcake at the next birthday party and not beat myself up over it. That die-hard follow-througher I spoke about can give me all the bad looks he wants as I savor that last glob of icing on my lip. The test will be to remind myself that a second helping of both is unnecessary. I think I can do that. I think. If not, hunt me down next year and we can have this conversation again.

How do you feel about New Year’s resolutions? Have you stuck to it so far this year?

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