Although the year began with good intentions of eating more healthy food and increasing the amount of exercise and quitting smoking, many are struggling to keep these promises for a full year. A 2,000-person study by the British company HealthSpan found that two-thirds of people often start Healthy, but they stop this on the 22nd day on average, according to the British newspaper "Mail Online".
The study found that people often try to return again for what I plan to do after three months, swinging between healthy ways and living unhealthily four times a year.
This is equivalent to spending eight years of age trying to commit to 252 different health methods.
The following are a set of ways to counter breaking decisions:
Be smart by dividing each major goal into specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and appropriate targets. The first fitness goal could be to walk 20 minutes three times a week for two weeks, then re-evaluate the situation at the end of the week and move to the small goal Next, this will help you maintain your motivation until you reach your overall goal by the end of 2019.
Monitor the change and celebrate your achievements: It is also helpful to monitor smart targets to boost motivation when the situation becomes difficult, and then properly celebrate each progress with others if possible. This will increase the sense of self worth and confidence.
Share others: One of the best indicators for the future to maintain any kind of health change is whether one will get support from others or not, and this can come in the form of encouragement from family, friends or a private or public trainer, or simply join others who have The same decisions about health, where the motivation to continue to exercise if you are alone can be difficult after the first weeks of the beginning of the year.
Take steps to prevent sudden decline. The most important point of decision-making is to remind yourself of the basic motivation for health and lifestyle changes by focusing on the reasons for commitment. To fulfill this decision, the more you look for the key factor of motivation, the easier it is to connect a smaller and separate goal to the general decision.
Substitution: Our brains are deceptive, meaning that when you try not to think about something, you will immediately become preoccupied with the things you want to avoid. That is why so many diets fail to focus on what we can eat but what we can not eat.
With regard to any New Year resolution, the starting point is to take a close and objective look at your habits, to identify the daily activities that prevent the decision from being achieved.