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New Year's Weight Loss & Diet Resolutions Made Easy

Resolve to lose weight and eat healthy for the New Year can be easy.

It's time of the year again when people celebrate the holidays and welcome the New Year. Weight and diet is on the top 3 New Year's Resolutions for most people. Health and fitness is the case where haste makes waste, as the old saying goes. Many people start the new year with good momentum, then lose steam by the end of January.

By the end of January, one-third of people quit. Only half people still stay on their New Year's resolutions after 6 months. That's a disappointing statistics.

This is the I discussed in the last article. Insanity is to keep doing the same old things (New Year's resolutions) that didn't work AND expect different results.

In anothe article, I also discussed the and what to do instead.

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Lose weight, have a healthy fit, exercise regularly don't have to be that hard. It can be simple and easy if people review their past patterns and behaviors and answer a few questions."

The first step is to take a look at what your nutrition and exercise habits have been like for the last 12 months.

Think about questions like these and write down your answers in a notebook so that you can look back at them again a year from now:

- How does your weight compare with a year ago?


- Do you feel healthy and have a lot of energy or are you tired all the time?

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- Do you take vitamins or other nutritional supplements?

- Do you eat at home most of the time? If so, what types of foods? Whole fresh foods, boxed foods or TV dinners?

- If you eat in a restaurant, what types of restaurants do you go to and what types of foods do you choose?

- How physically active are you? Do you exercise regularly?

- Do you eat healthy size portions, or do you stuff yourself with every meal?

- Do you smoke?

- How much alcohol do you drink each week?

It’s important to take an honest look at your health habits in order to set goals for your health and diet. The answers are in the questions.

Watch the slideshow video about making New Year's resolutions for weight loss & diet simple and easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzVK2K_6TY

You'll be surprised by the answers.

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