Going into the new year healthy? Often enough, it happens that gyms are overcrowded in January, and then only in January. Good intentions are too often not easily achievable. For this reason, we recommend taking an approach that you can stick to. So try not to be too hard on yourself. Below, we have some tips to start and stay healthy in the new year!
Increase confidence in yourself
You stick with something when you are sure you will achieve it. For example, the difference between 'I'm going to exercise every week' versus 'I'll take my bike more often'. This is a very different kind of resolution but is easier to stick to.
Ask yourself a help question
What would it take to exercise more? What would it take for you to eat healthier? Then come answers that are about your day. 'What would it take' is also: you get to philosophise for a while. You are not immediately pinned down to: I have to do it too. Then you often think more creatively and it fits better with your own living situation.
Compliment yourself
Not noting: 'Well I didn't exercise again because I didn't have time'. But establish: 'I did take the stairs instead of the lift as soon as I got out of work'. Just give yourself a pat on the back. By doing so, you will make sure you feel like doing it again next time instead of your confidence getting lower and lower.
Engage your environment
Swimming alone against the current is hard to sustain. Gather people around you who want to go into the new year 'healthy' with you or at least support you to keep it up.
Don't focus on the result
It is smarter to think of the activity as an exercise. Nor do people think when playing the piano: 'I'm going to learn to play the piano today, and tomorrow I can do it.' Or: 'I'm going to learn Chinese today, and tomorrow I'll speak Chinese.' But strangely enough, you do think about that when exercising and playing sports. While that too is an exercise process you might enjoy for the rest of your life. As long as you don't think, 'Tomorrow I should be able to do it and the day after tomorrow I should already weigh less.' Because that won't work. If you keep focusing on this, it will demotivate you and chances are you will stop working out. Then you will be back to square one. Exercising is part of the process. You might stay with that forever.
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