Are you already caught up in the craze or New Year’s resolutions about living and eating healthy?
I’m sorry to burst your joyful bubble, but 80% of people fail at achieving them. Moreover, if you are making this resolution to lose weight, even going through with some diet might not mean much because up to 95% of dieters regain their weight.
All that said, however, you can make sure that you actually start leading a healthy lifestyle. The trick is about setting the right goals and achieving them in baby-steps.
Don’t Aim Too High Too Fast
Living healthy is a wide concept, and the biggest mistake you can make is to set a goal so vast. Instead, break it down into small manageable steps. Start with things like “not eating candy three days a week” or “replacing soda with fresh juice every Thursday”.
Yes, those are small steps that they won’t make a big “healthy” change in your life fast. But the point is to develop the right kind of habits. So, start small and escalate your goals every time you become comfortable with the new level.
This way your new healthy eating and living patterns will develop into habits, so you’ll be able to maintain them over time.
Accept Failure
Sometimes you’ll have a binge eating episode or a weekend spent stuffing yourself with junk food and playing console games on the couch. The point is, you will fail in your new healthy lifestyle.
Accept this. Move on. Restart the next day.
Start Working out at the Same Time with Changing Your Diet
Remember that about small steps? You should keep them small, but you also should go in both directions at once.
This means that you need to switch to a healthy diet and start regular workouts at the same time. These two changes will reinforce each other. Also, your new exercise regime will require healthy nutrition to fuel it.
There, you have it. Three simple things can help you reevaluate your healthy living plan and make sure that it turns into an actual lifestyle.
Leave a Reply