As the New Year starts, are you getting ready to finally become the healthiest person you can be?
Setting New Year health goals is the easy part. The challenge comes in when you need to stick to your goals. No matter what your health goals are, from losing weight to drinking more water or completing a fitness routine, these 5 tips can help you stay consistent with reaching your health goals.
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1. Be Realistic with Your Goals
As with any other type of goal, your New Year health goal needs to be realistic. This includes the type of goal, the details of what the goal is, and how much time you’re giving yourself.
For example, setting a goal of wanting to eat more fruits and vegetables every day is a realistic goal. However, switching to a completely raw, vegan diet right out of the gate might not be realistic for you.
If you want to lose weight, make it a realistic goal of no more than 1-2 lbs lost a week. If you want to lose 30 lbs in a month, you’re going to be very disappointed, and extremely unhealthy and malnourished if you try to reach this type of goal.
2. Make Sure You Commit
Once you have set your health goals, make a commitment to yourself. There are different ways to have intention with your commitment, from getting a new journal to write about your progress, to adding different deadlines to a daily planner. This is also a good time to think about a support system and finding people to be accountable to.
3. Set Deadlines and Schedules
Deadlines are wonderful when it comes to reaching your health goals! Instead of losing steam after a few weeks, the schedules and deadlines give you something to keep checking on. For example, if you have fitness goals, you can have mini goals, like running a mile by the end of month one, running 2 miles by the end of month two, and so on.
Think about your health goal and how you can split it up into smaller goals, then set a schedule for each of those goals that are realistic and attainable.
4. Find the Best Way to Stay Accountable
It is often difficult to keep up with your goals if you aren’t accountable in some way, whether to yourself or to other people. Here are some ways you can be accountable in order to stay motivated:
- Tell a friend or loved one about your health goal.
- Start logging your progress in a journal or planner.
- Talk about your goal and progress on social media.
- Start a blog to keep track of your health goal.
5. Focus on Lifestyle Changes
The best health goals are not short-term or temporary. They’re going to improve your daily habits and become lifestyle changes in one way or another.
Goals like exercising more, spending more time outdoors for the vitamin D, drinking more water, improving your nutrition and losing weight aren’t just about the short-term results, but long-term lifestyle changes. This is what you should be focusing on.
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Health and fitness goals are notoriously prone to not being fulfilled. If you’ve ever spent much time in a gym, you know the routine. For the entire month of January, there is often a line at every piece of equipment in the building. Then, come February, every piece of equipment is available whenever you want to use it.
Making a resolution, a promise to ourselves that we’re going to do something different than we’ve done in the past can be a challenge. Statistics show that by the end of the first week, 25% of people have given up and gone back to their pre-resolution ways. But it doesn’t have to be that way. To help you stick to your health goals, download this free Fitness Resolution Report to see how sticking to your promise doesn’t have to be like a prison sentence.
