New Year's Resolutions.
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We were talking about them at work yesterday and most of my colleagues said they can't be arsed about them any more.
It made me wonder if they are a dying tradition these days.
(Just for the record - I haven't made any myself for at least a decade or more now.. but was thinking about trying to adhere to some this coming year this morning over a bacon-buttie and a cuppa).
It made me wonder if they are a dying tradition these days.
(Just for the record - I haven't made any myself for at least a decade or more now.. but was thinking about trying to adhere to some this coming year this morning over a bacon-buttie and a cuppa).
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Anybody got any advice?
If you gave up the dreaded habit, how did you adhere to it?
Second on the list is "don't, no matter HOW much fun it was this year, go round to your friends' house to play dancing games on the Wii. It's like drugs. It's ACE at the time, but you WILL suffer for it later".
My serious one is "try to be less of a dick". It's the same every year. I seriously think it's the only one that matters.
Firstly I never said that I was giving up. I decided to see how long I could go without having one. I managed 2 years.
You lost almost seven stone, that is amazing. Well done. May I ask how you did it? I know it's a case of eat less, move more but how did you get motivated and what did you find hardest and easiest?
I must admit, I love smoking, and I'm not planning to quite anytime soon. But I did once give up for a couple of months, and this is how-
I was really drunk one night. A friend of mine HAD decided to give up, and talked me into doing it at the same time, so we could compete against each other, and the first one to have a cigarette would owe the other a tenner. I rose to the challenge. Which was dumb, because even then I had no intention of giving up.
But once it was a competition, I was AWESOME at it. I was as good as my word. And I didn't smoke again until I'd seen him do it himself. I got arsey, I got cravings, EVERYTHING. But I wasn't going to let some guy who'd just convinced me to give up smoking as a drunken bet WIN. And seeing him smoke was just GREAT. I enjoyed that cig more than I'd ever enjoyed one in my life.
Mind you, the bastard never gave me that tenner.
Thanks.
Something just clicked to make me finally want to do something about it. Clearly I was (and still am) rather a big unit and I just reached a point where I'd had enough and got that inititial motivation. Then I found out that 3500 calories = 1 lb of fat and discovered calorie calculators etc. I can be a bit of a numbers geek and playing around with different calorie amounts on the calculators was somewhat interesting to me, seeing how much I'd need to eat to lose x amount of lbs in a week/month etc.
Started off going very low on the calories at just 1200, keeping that up for a couple of months whilst doing a spot of cardio-vascular exercise here and there. During that time, I was reading a bodybuilding forum (bodybuilding.com) that has a section on it for people who want to lose fat, be it more muscular types who want to better show off what they've got or people with a higher body fat %. Many of the recomendations for exercise and diet that were posted by people in there are the same for all body types.
I then increased the calories to 2000 (still lower than most were saying where I should be at considering what my weight was), started eating a pseudo-bodybuilders diet with plenty of protein in it, began weight training and kept going with some cardio exercise.
The diet wasn't too bad as it involved eating little and often, (6-7 times a day typically) and I believe that certainly helped as it never seemed like a long time before eating again. Protein is known to fill you up too which was a bonus. To try and stay motivated, I joined up to a few challenges on that forum where people would post weekly weigh-ins to track their progress, share tips and encourage each other. Never been to a weightwatchers or slimming world meeting, but I'd imagine that posting on those threads gave me a similar experience to what they would.
There's also a thread in the advice section here on digi spy called "weight loss thread 2010" that I was active in for a good while. If nobody starts a new one for 2011 on here, I'll be starting it myself. Being part of things like that made me feel aswerable to people I suppose, even if those people weren't people I'd actually physically met and were "just" the posts of others in internet-land.
Wow, this is turning into a long post so I'll keep the hardest thing brief....getting back into after missing a day or two of scheduled exercise if plans change or I unexpectadly needed to go somewhere. It got very tempting to stay lazy as one day soon turns into two and then into three etc. It's what got me in the end for this year.
Wow - What about the will-power, being influenced by other smokers.... Ohhhh hang on - you lasted 2 years, which implies you still smoke...
LOL - A tenner would buy you a day and a halves worth of ciggies today...
I wonder if smoking is just a "headology" thing?
We ALL know it's bad, but that's why we (who do) do it!!
I know what agoraphobia is like. Good luck with both of your goals
the bathroom revamped
my son's bedroom decorated
the dining room decorated
then I will be in a position to have a new kitchen in the January Sales 2012.:D
I would also like to lose weight but I don't think I've got the willpower.
get laid
get a job where I can wear a hard hat shaped like a stetson
not have a meltdown
go on holiday again
get a hot tub full of lesbians
I was also thinking of learning massage but I'm not all that fond of touching people.
NY resolutions = pointless = never made one in my life.
I haven't had a cigarette since last January and i have done it with a combination of patches and the inhalater!, which i got on prescription from the smoking clinic at my GP's... I had smoked since i was 16 and i am now 63, so i am not saying it lightly, it was easier than i thought it would be!, i had known in my mind that it was time for me to do it and it did take a few months of me 'thinking' about it but i got there in the ebd.... good luck,,,,:)
Everything bad that has happened to me this year is entirely of my own doing so next year I'm going to make the resolution of following my head and not my heart...
I really want to lose wieght so I look good to everyone new I have met this year - want to be as confident and comfortable as I was few years ago - never felt so great in all my life....and I want my new colleagues to see that side of me...
it's gonna be tough - I have no motivation whatsoever at the moment - always got sore head and feel ultra sluggish - I don't know how I'm goin to do it.... was thinking of starting my own blog and giving up chocolate for the entire year - give me a bit of motivation to keep it going...
I know if I get to February I'll feel good about making one month - that will spur me on for the next and the next.... it's just getting started is the hard part!!
Sorry - off on a ramble there
Brilliant work! I lost 5 stone this year, also a bit from the year before. However the last few months I've put back on a stone. So I am going to shift that stone and a bit more.
Also I want to give up my part time smoking... I smoke at work but don't smoke at home. It's weird isn't it? I dont need them, but it's to get out of the office for 5 minutes with no one moaning, asking questions etc.
I'm also wanting to rent and move out, and tell my folks the horrible 'you're son is seeing a man!!' :eek: