The Gaston County Family YMCA Offers Tips for Achieving
New Year’s Resolutions
National YMCA survey
finds more than half of
American adults say
outside support can
help keep their 2016
resolutions.
action unless without setting manageable goals
and leaning on the support of health and wellness
communities. Here are five tips they recommends
to help make a healthy New Year’s resolution stick:
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1. Start small. Set attainable resolutions.
For example, if your goal is to exercise more
Each year, millions of Americans resolve to get
frequently in the New Year, don’t schedule seven
in better shape and become healthier versions of
days a week at the gym. Start with a reasonable
themselves. According to a recent YMCA survey
three days a week. If you’d like to eat healthier,
of more than 1,000 adults, less than a quarter
try replacing desserts with other foods you enjoy,
of respondents kept their resolution last year. An
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such as fruit or yogurt.
overwhelming 71 percent said they tried but fell
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short,
and 40
percent confessed
they made it
through only a couple of weeks or months.
2. Take it one step at a time. Maki