Let's hear your New Years resolutions?

Al

Guess the only resolution I have is to be the same, good-lookin' guy for another year.

Happy New Year,

Gary

Most of you have already dumped your New Years Resolutions. (That is; those of you that have made them already). The rest will be kaput before the end of next month. 95% of New Years Resolutions are broken by the end of January (50% by the second week in January). Why do we always think we're going to be in the tiny 5% rather than in the more likely 95%? New Years Resolutions set us up for failure by causing us to hope for unrealistic "Lose All the Weight You Want by Summer " goals. If losing weight was that easy, Oprah would have figured it out by now.

How many of us have actually kept previous New Years Resolutions? I have been unsuccessful at the same New Years Resolution for the last 10 years - be less judgmental of smokers. I'm just as judgmental as I was ten years ago, maybe more. Why? Because that is an unrealistic goal for me. I don't like smokers smoking around me. And if you haven't yet made a decision to eat more healthfully (NOT a Diet!) and exercise regularly, then no Resolution, New Years or otherwise, is going to make it happen.

This is the time of year that the diet industry is waiting to pounce on us. It's a $30 billion a year industry built on our failure. Have you ever thought that if diets worked, they'd all be out of business by now? All you would need is one diet. You'd never need another one. But instead, the diet industry keeps robbing us of our money because 95% of the people who go on diets have gained back EVERY single pound, plus more by the end of the first year. And the statistics get worse.

By the end of the second year, 98% of people who have gone on diets have gained back every single pound. Again, why should we think we're going to be in that tiny percentage instead of the more likely 95 or 98%? It's because Americans like to believe in magic. We want to believe the diet will make us slim, trim and happy.

"So I resolve to resolve never to make another New Years Resolution again!!! But if you do, make sure it's something that is realistic and attainable and then set a 'goal' to reach it - not necessarily within a Month or a Year but something you can look forward to and be excited about achieving and then actively pursue it."

Best regards,
Mike

More patience...
And I want it NOW!!!

-ED-

This one is an original from me: Losing weight and do more weight training.

I feel its important to maintain a good and healthy body weight and lose some fa..wait! Fried chicken! *chomp*

I must be in the 5%. Dr. Atkins and I have kept it off for 7 months, except for a couple of "holiday pounds" which will melt right off after 1-1-04.
Anybody want to buy some Ephedren?
My resolutions are to make more money, be younger, insure world peace, and be able to dunk the basketball again.
Guess which one I actually have a chance to do.
All seriousness aside, HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR!
DonM

Don,
5% wow...that's pretty low body fat. I think I'm somewhere in the 70% (j/k)

Seriously- I heard Ephedra is not safe..may wanna consider different herb (ok- I may have left myself open for this one).

I guess what it comes down to is; a resolution is a reaffirmation of what we are already trying to do day in and day out.

Happy new Year.

There WAS a time when I had 5% body fat, but that was another year.
Ephedra has been banned. That's why I was offering it for sale. I don't really have any.
DonM

I wish for the same health, prosperity and good luck that I have been blessed with for these 53 years. I am fortunate to have been born and live in the US. I have been well educated, well parented, happily married, loved, and everything else that is good. May God bless me with at least one more.

And for you, I wish you love and peace.