Resolutions – Who’s Keeping Them?
03 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
in Health & Fitness, Resolutions Tags: lose weight, motivation, workout
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It’s that time of the year again – time to ‘resolve’ that you are going to make positive changes and proceed to tear off like a bull out of the gate in a Texas rodeo for about the first week or so, only to fall back into those oh-so- comfortable patterns, and hence, set yourself up to fail.
Yes, this is me we’re talking about and this is turning into to more of a yearly ritual than resolution. Each year I start to entertain the “resolutions” that roll around in my head. They don’t quite make it to paper because, let’s face it, once you write something down, it’s real instead of just a thought. First and foremost, losing 10 pounds is the resolution that keeps creeping up, each and every year, without any sort of migration to becoming crossed off and completed. Next!
So – why should this year be different? I have things I know I need to do – for my own little healthy sake. And I have other things I need to do for my own well being’s sake. And then there are the things I just can’t seem to get motivated to stick to. Herein lies the problem.
Scrolling through the Daily Press – their listed top 10 New Year’s Resolutions come as no surprise: 1/ Diet 2/ Exercise 3/ Stop Drinking 4/ Don’t Procrastinate. You’ll have to take a look for yourself. Other than quitting smoking (don’t do it, therefore no need to quit) and stop cursing (why would I do that??), my resolutions look like the masses.
The trick is going to be finding some dangling carrots to 1/ get me moving and 2/ keep me going. Positive motivators never seem to work. It’s not like I can trick myself by telling “me” that if I lose “x” number of pounds that I’ll buy myself that gadget or golf clubs or cute pair of shoes, because let’s face it I’ll just come up with some sort of excuse to buy whatever it is anyway. Zero willpower. I can pile up all of the fitness gadgets I have bought in the past — P90X, kettle bells, Garmin GPS watches, Nike+shoes, Wii Fit – it goes on and on and on.
Thing is, it’s easy to start. A lot of people have great intentions when they start, yours truly included. Trick is to keep with it – and push through when I don’t necessarily feel like keeping on the path of the righteous. What I need is something to scare myself silly. Go on national television in a bikini perhaps? No – that’s extreme and I don’t want to be responsible for scaring a nation of children (although it might be a good lesson for those little buggers to learn the hard way). I can’t get on the Biggest Loser since those people have a little more than 10 to go. What I need is a personal trainer, preferably one that was a former drill Sargent or really angry Navy Seal who won’t let me slack and will push me where I need to go to lose my love handles. But where does one find such a beast?
Suggestions, of course, are always welcome in situations like this. Until then, I will continue gearing up to get on my “fitness roll” which is going to start any day now. I can hear those resolutions screaming at me, just not loud enough.
