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Losing it in the New Year

Get everything ready for your starting date so you’re not rushing around on the day trying to find workout clothes. Any delay or bother can give you an excuse to put it off.

Make sure you have easy access to good food items like fruit, salads, Lean Cuisine or Weight Watchers meals if you don’t have time to cook something up yourself. If they’re not at hand you may grab something unhealthy when you’re hungry.

Eat breakfast, a mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack and relatively early dinner. If you get to the point where you’re starving, it’ll be tougher to be good. You want to stave off those pangs through the day.

Set small goals for yourself. Don’t look at the whole amount or it could be discouraging. Understand that you will start to notice a difference after the first 10 to 20lbs and that will motivate you to continue.

If you’re not a gym person, find some other exercise that you enjoy and don’t kill yourself on the first day by overdoing it. Nothing throws a spanner in the works like screaming stiff, sore muscles for three days afterwards.

If you fall off the wagon just climb back on up the next day. There is absolutely no logic to throwing in the towel over briefly straying from the path!