New Year's Resolutions: Are You Keeping Yours???

@kareng (61740)
United States
January 20, 2008 9:43pm CST
We are a little more than half way through the month of January now and I was wondering how everyone is doing with their New Years resolutions. Are you keeping yours? Or have you already fallen off the wagon? I didn't make a whole lot of resolutions this year. I do have one bad habit and that is taking on more things than I can handle and then I get stressed out. So I'm trying not to over extend myself this year. So far I'm doing great. How are you doing with your resolutions?
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@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
21 Jan 08
I'm making progress on a few, especially looking to move and writing and getting back to dance (which I did today; taking a class).
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
28 Jan 08
Way to go!!
• India
21 Jan 08
Well,I think I am partially keeping it.Well the new resolution that I am keeping is writing a diary.but resoltions like oging to the gym everyday is turning out to be a lost one as I am not able to overcome my laziness.But I will start again once my exams get over.Also praying everyday is one of the resoltuons I am keeping and one resoltion I am not keeping is doing exercise fpr my eyes.
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
21 Jan 08
Good for you!
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
21 Jan 08
So far so good for me and my resolution! I actually got a bit of a headstart. Around mid-November I resolved to lose the 50 pounds that I had lost before and regained! I have lost 21.5 of them! I also had a New Year's Resolution to be more active rather than sedentary and develop healthier habits. At least 3 times per week I have exercised for 30 minutes. Some days it is a very brisk walk (that was early Dec before it got so cold!) and some it is my recumbant bicycle, and others it is aerobic tapes. I am down to one soft drink every 3-4 days (diet) and have cut my coffee consumption by over half! We switched from canola oil to olive oil too!
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
30 Jan 08
Wow, I'm impressed! I could never give up my coffee..lol!
@roberten (3128)
• United States
22 Jan 08
Oh, absolutely! I resolve the same thing every year: I resolve not to resolve.
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
31 Jan 08
That's a good one!
• India
21 Jan 08
I did not make any resolutions because they're hard to be kept. LOL!
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
30 Jan 08
Smart! lol :)
@di1159 (1580)
• United States
22 Jan 08
Well, I had the same old resolution I have every year which is to lose weight. I have been successful this year though, because I began back at the beginning of October (lousy time to start but then again I don't know when its a good time.) Anyway, as of today, I've lost 32lbs with 4 to go, so hopefully I will start on my next resolution of exercising regularly!.
@kareng (61740)
• United States
31 Jan 08
That's awesome! You've done an outstanding job with losing weight during the holidays no less!
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
21 Jan 08
LOL I am a very very slow starter this year, I just can't get into the right gear, I did say I would rejoin a gym, as I had to leave my last one because of my move, I have got as far as going into the gym and getting the literature but I haven't joined, I can't seem to be motivated, but I have however sorted my counseling out and at long last it looks like I'm going to get long term counseling at long last, so at least I have completed one of my resolutions for 2008!
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
30 Jan 08
Good for you, you are moving in the right direction so don't be too hard on yourself!
@meme0907 (3481)
• United States
22 Jan 08
Hey kg, I started a thread about this too @ YBB/YGPTForum if you'd like to check it out here's the link http://urgptf.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=thb&action=display&thread=1200439787 +'s |:)
@AmbiePam (93883)
• United States
21 Jan 08
I'm doing good with my resolutions. My main one that I wanted to keep was to not miss any doctor appointments or change the appointments. I have had 4 so far in January and not missed a one. Sometimes I get nervous if I have to drive far, or I know I hate going to a particular doctor, and I reschedule, putting it off. I don't want to do that, I want to just do what I know to do, and let the rest take care of itself. : )
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
29 Jan 08
Good for you!
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
21 Jan 08
Yep I'm keeping mine :) My resolution as for the last several years was to not make any New Years resolutions - I never seemed to manage to keep them so just don't bother making them anymore. I hope others are as successfull as I've been these last years :)
@kareng (61740)
• United States
30 Jan 08
That is usually my motto also. I will keep mine this year though. I can eat better and I can get more exercise. It can be fun doing it...doesn't have to be d drag :)
• United States
22 Jan 08
Heck no-- in fact, I don't even remember what my resolution was! lol
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
27 Jan 08
I can't say I have been keeping my New Years resolutions. One of them is to eat smarter like hot vegetables and salads and home made soups and lots of fruit. I do good for a few days and then I have a day like today where I eat everything I can get my hands on, or so it seems. Today I had 2 pancakes for breakfast with lots of syrup on them. Then for lunch I had a bowl of homemade turkey soup, which was good because it had lots of vegetables in it. Then for supper I had shrimp fried in lots of butter and garlic. Then an hour later I ate a dozen sourkraut perogies, fried no less. Then I had some pudding a couple hours later. Then some ice cream and then some popcorn. I can't believe I have eaten so much today and I know I will suffer with water retention tomorrow. Now I know what I did was bad so for the next 4 or 5 days I will eat right again. Then I blow it again and eat junk. I have to stop doing this.
• Canada
21 Jan 08
LOL well... now that Ive seen this discussion, im remembering what my resolution was. To be honest i havent been trying to work at mine and have sort of slacked off the schedule. I meant to get more fit and work our more but until now ive done hardly anything. Its quite sad really :P
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
30 Jan 08
It's not too late! January isn't over with yet! Hit the gym :)
@Fidget (291)
21 Jan 08
*thinks really hard*... I can't actually remember if I made any! Oops :/
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@kareng (61740)
• United States
21 Jan 08
Hahaha!