Sound Off: What's Your New Year's Resolution?

Michelle Christner was shaving a docile mixed-breed named Tyra as she talked about her hopes for the new year.

"I want to lose weight," said Christner, 44, who has worked grooming dogs at on Perry Highway for at least the past 7 years. This time last year she was resolving to get more organized in her daily life, and she kept to it.

This year she's determined to slim down.

"Monday I start," she said. "I'll be eating smaller portions and making better choices."

Weight loss is also the resolution for groomer Karen Streb, who proudly showed off her "two dress sizes" weight loss since starting the "Seventeen-Day Diet." We found her drying the white coat of a big, fluffy great pyrenees named Beowulf.

Streb vows to continue exercising with her 10-year-old son, Matt.

"He has more energy than he knows what to do with," said Streb, 46. "We do the treadmill, walk around the neighborhood together."

The salon's owner, Nancy Kroll, says she's not a good person to make New Year's resolutions. She joked that she just wants "to keep on breathing."

"I'm not the type of person who follows through" on resolutions, Kroll said.

Although Kroll is not making personal promises for the new year, she is expecting 2012 to be another profitable one for her business.

"Pets are just as important as kids when it comes to spending money," Kroll said. "People will pay to have a pet groomed before paying a bill."

Weight loss is one of the most popular New Year's Resolutions, according to USA.gov, an interagency initiative administered by the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. 

Other popular resolutions include drinking less alcohol, eathing healthier, getting a better job or more better education, managing debt, managing stress and saving money. See the full list with related resources for helping keep the goal.

What's your New Year's Resolution? Have you been good at keeping old ones? Tell us in the comments!