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Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom
It?s almost time to welcome in the New Year. Whether you plan a quiet evening with family and friends or a night on the town ? thoughts of New Year?s resolutions for 2012 are no doubt close to mind.
Whether you want to lose weight, stop smoking, or start an exercise plan, when you think about a new change for a new you, I hope you?ll consider the smartest goals for you. This doesn?t mean heroic efforts toward an unattainable goal, the kind you?ll try for a week and then give up.
A successful resolution requires some reasonable goal-setting and realistic thinking. Instead of saying you?ll lose 20 pounds in January, make the goal eating more fruits and vegetables, keeping a food log, monitoring your daily calories, and losing 5 pounds during the month. You might lose more, but you?ll have achieved your goal, which is the most motivating tool of all! Trying to stop smoking? Perhaps skip the ?cold turkey? approach, aim to cut back on your current habit, and sign up for a structured program to help sustain your effort. Instead of promising yourself daily trips to the gym, aim for a 30-minute walk daily and add the gym for at least 2 days each week.
Here?s to a happy and healthy 2012!
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Making (and Keeping) New Year?s Resolutions
Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom
It?s almost time to welcome in the New Year. Whether you plan a quiet evening with family and friends or a night on the town ? thoughts of New Year?s resolutions for 2012 are no doubt close to mind.
Whether you want to lose weight, stop smoking, or start an exercise plan, when you think about a new change for a new you, I hope you?ll consider the smartest goals for you. This doesn?t mean heroic efforts toward an unattainable goal, the kind you?ll try for a week and then give up.
A successful resolution requires some reasonable goal-setting and realistic thinking. Instead of saying you?ll lose 20 pounds in January, make the goal eating more fruits and vegetables, keeping a food log, monitoring your daily calories, and losing 5 pounds during the month. You might lose more, but you?ll have achieved your goal, which is the most motivating tool of all! Trying to stop smoking? Perhaps skip the ?cold turkey? approach, aim to cut back on your current habit, and sign up for a structured program to help sustain your effort. Instead of promising yourself daily trips to the gym, aim for a 30-minute walk daily and add the gym for at least 2 days each week.
Here?s to a happy and healthy 2012!
- Certified Personal Trainers Give Tips On How To Revive New Year's Health Resolutions Or Keep Them Going
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News As the resolve of New Year's resolutions fades with January passing into February, fitness experts Sheila Kalas and Laura Coombs, right, offered some useful tips for how to stay motivated about getting healthy...
- Tips For Maintaining Your Weight This Holiday Season
The average American gains five to seven pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, but maintaining healthful eating habits can help them avoid packing on the weight, diabetes nutrition educator Sheri Setser-Legg, right, writes in the Lexington...
- Fitness 3 Ways
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom When you think of ?exercise? or ?fitness? what comes to mind? A sweaty workout, leaving you exhausted? Think again! An active lifestyle comes in many forms. What?s known as ?activity of daily living? is the foundation of a healthy...
- Creating Healthy Habits
by Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom When you hear the term ?healthy habit? what do you think? Many people embrace this concept - at least the ?healthy? part. When it comes to the ?habit? that?s a lot tougher. Most people think that making the decision to be healthy...
- Checking In On New Year's Resolutions
By Jamie Strauss, R.D., L.D.N. Clinical Dietitian, Food and Nutrition Services Sinai Hospital It?s the last week of January - how well have you done with your New Year's resolutions? Many of us made it a goal to lose weight, exercise more or just...