My New Year 's Resolution

However, like always you always encounter weaknesses in your journey. For this month some of this includes: cleaning the posterior of my teeth using dental floss, preventing my toothbrush from going on to my gingiva as it can be very damaging later in life, and the lack of ability to manage time wisely as I sometimes do things too slow or too fast, overcoming this will enable me to finish the task in an adequate amount of time. Nevertheless, personally the most vital aspect I still need to recover from is my tendency to get sidetracked, meaning I have a habit of

Hopefully, I can lose even more. I want to slim down for a couple reasons. For starters, my aging joints have no business toting around 20 extra pounds of fat. Next, I want to be able to fit into my size 36 khakis that have been hanging in my closet for the last twenty years. I tried them on this morning, and they’re still a size too small. When I regain my appetite within the next couple days, I need to take specific measures to ensure my goals. This goal gives me the motivation to go back to where I was last year, and start running 20-25 miles each week. I pledge also to start hitting the weights more in gym because every weight loss expert I’ve talked to say that lifting builds muscle and muscle burns calories in ways that fat can’t. And finally, I should burn into my brain the happy picture I took today of the scale: 217.2. I can slice more

The problem that I referred to when talking about my difficulties in week one, was the surprise trip. My dad decided this year that he wanted to go the annual air race championships in Reno, Nevada. I was not expecting this to fall in the middle of behavior change project. This trip made it really easy to get the three miles in and hard to get the healthy meals in. Since we were trying to avoid spending too much money we were just eating at small diners and fair type food that were close by. I tried to mitigate the damage by ordering the healthiest alternative that I could find, but that did not always work. The other unforeseen difficulty was the addition of a new vending machine at my school. It is right in the main hallway and full of only unhealthy options. I dealt with this by not bringing any small bills to school. This allowed me to walk past it without the ability thereby removing the

I was able to meet the majority of my fitness plan goals but fell short on the targets I set for better eating and diet. What I can do in the future is to ensure I take responsibility for eating healthy even when visiting with relatives and friends. I will respectfully decline empty calories and step out for healthier food choices.

Every time a workout is finished, I use a blood pressure machine that tells me how fast heart is pumping and my blood pressure. The data that compiled over the course of time is rewarding. Did anything go wrong this week? Yes, something has gone wrong. I wasn't able to achieve my goal of drinking eight cups (1880mL) a day, I could only drink about three to five cups(705-1175mL). Basically, I drank 4935mL/13160mL which is 3/8 of my goal this week. Truly sadden, but I believe I could do better this week. I learned that this project may take time from my schedule, I need to do because I want to do it. If I unable to do this, how am I going to accomplish in life? Giving up isn't an opinion. Of course, there is a constant need of adjustments, it just depends on what occurs during the week. Overall, besides school and the little experiment that I have

So every January 1st everyone makes a New Years resolution, It’s like they want to start over. Well my 9th grade year was my chance to “start over” and be more involved as a student, so I told myself I would try to be as involved as I possibly could. My first involvement was the junior high basketball team then the next year was varsity. Also I was involved in Choir, eventhough I had been in choir since the 7th grade I wanted to excede my choral abilities. But doing these things was not great enough, I wanted to further my involvment. So my 11th grade year I joined The FFA, which I barely new anything about, I ended up being apart of the Forestry Team and the Flouriculture Team. Then finally after waiting so long my senior year was here.

This year, I'm setting a resolution. I've joined a Lemon Dropper (a group from Young Living) walking challenge called The One challenge, with daily walks of 2.75 miles, thus totalling to 1,000 miles for the year. That isn't my resolution, this year, though. My resolution is to stop making decisions that will make it difficult to feel healthy. This can be anything from eating too much sugar before my walk, to deciding to finish a great book, even though it's 11:30pm and I need my eight hours of sleep. If my action makes it harder for me to feel good the next day, it's not happening. I expect there may be a few flub ups. But at 47, I know what foods, drinks and activities make me too tired to function properly and what to avoid. I resolve

Coming home this summer from my freshman year of college, I realized the dining hall food and the living on my own did me dirty. This summer is the time for me to get my ass back in shape! I have started eating much healthier (recipes coming soon hopefully!) and working out more often. It is so important to take care of your health, and taking care of yourself leads to a happier and more put together lifestyle.

Lately I haven’t been pushing myself and doing what I say I am going to do. This year with a Grit and Growth mindset, I will achieve what I set out to accomplish. I find that if I have this mindset I am happier, get more done and stress less. I think using this mindset might even be healthier too! I have used this mindset in the past and it has proven to really work for

Remove these high calories, nutrient-poor foods from your life and you'll be much more likely to stick to your New Year's resolutions. You're struggling to add muscle on your body, consume more total calories a good for you.

I wanted to bring my weight down to decrease my BMI, reduce my body fat percentage, and build confidence within myself. My long-term goals were to lower my BMI of 25.8 to a range between 18.5-24.9, lower body fat percentage to 23%, and to have a better respect and love for my body. Three obstacles that I face at first were poor eating habits, insufficient exercise, and negative thinking plus body shaming. The resources I used to help me throughout this process were friends, the TAMIU rec, the TAMIU counseling center, and YouTube/varies athletic websites. I targeted dates one month apart and each short-term goal included a loss of five pounds and one percent body fat. The rewards I decided to give myself after these objectives were simple things like eating sweats and eating out. The long-term goal that I will continue to strive to achieve is to have the satisfaction of knowing that I can do something about the way I look and see myself. A healthier and happier me is overall the best thing in life that I could

With all of these goals there are going to be things that will set me back. I have been smoking for 10 years now and at this point it has become a habit for me. Drinking is something that we do when we go out with friends or over to their houses, so when they are drinking it will be difficult to turn it down. I need to have the will power in order to do both of these things. Making a lunch requires me to get over being lazy and to make myself stand in the kitchen to make a meal. This is will be a little bit easier as long as I remember I may get osteoporosis if I do not start eating healthy. Exercising is the same, I am so tired after work that I just want to lay around and do nothing. But as I mentioned before with the sun coming out more and more this will be easier for me to do.

The goals that I set at the beginning of the semester was (1) By December 1, I will lose 30 pounds of fat and gain 20 pounds of muscle by increasing my physical activity and eating 1200 calories per day, (2) I will improve my diet by drinking only water, incorporating fruits and vegetables, eating portions about the size of my fist, and eating three balanced meals every day, and (3) Within three months, I am going to improve my three minute step test heart rate by pushing myself to 70 to 90% of my target heart rate and being able to lower my number from 177 beats per minute (bpm) to about 100-130 bpm. I did not accomplish any of my goals this semester. The reason why I did not because two were unrealistic. I did in fact lose body fat though,

Let me explain. This year, around New Year's, I decided that, instead of the usual lists of resolutions (I'm not the best at actually completing lists), I would simply choose two words and pursue those two ideas especially throughout the coming year. Those two words were intentional and authentic.

I know I should lose weight. It requires a lot of perseverance that I one time had and need to find again. Many of the reasons I should lose weight are very clear to me. I have read many articles and have heard what my doctor has told me. I lost over forty pounds about three years ago, unfortunately, I gained it back two fold when I was pregnant with my daughter. I still have not been able to get rid of this weight since she was born. Sometimes it causes me to get tired just from going to the grocery store. I also found out in September of last year that I have hypertension (high blood pressure) which effected my vision drastically by the following November. Other problems are social such as the