Make your New Year’s resolutions stick – success is possible

New Year’s Resolutions

We are almost 2 weeks into 2017. Hopefully, if you made New Year’s resolutions this year, you are still on track with your desired behavior. Less than 70% manage past the first two weeks. For some of us, real temptation might not have crossed our paths yet. Our hormones might still be in balance. Stress might still be average. We might still feel good and motivated – for now. Life will return to normalcy though. Temptations will arise. Success will stall. Stress will catch up with us. Happy attitude, motivation, and ambition might leave us. Intention(s) might fade. What will you do then?

 

New Year’s resolutions tend to fail, and we know it!

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A survey of over 1,000 respondents (living in the US) revealed that only 16.3% of people over the age of 50 achieve their resolutions each year (37.8% of individuals in their 20’s report they do). While 72.6% of respondents stay true to their resolutions throughout week one of January, only 44.8% manage to stick with it past June. US News even reports by week two of February, some 80% of those having made a New Year’s resolution are faced with disappointment leading most of them to give up on their intentions. But why is that? Why are most of us, year in and year out, unable to change our behavior? Don’t we want it badly enough, are we unable to change or are we too weak?Continue reading

Craving fish oil would be tooo easy. Let’s talk food cravings to get a handle on them

We all experience cravings on occasions.

If, however, you experience them frequently and you feel your cravings interfere with you reaching your health and/or weight goal, it might be necessary to understand the source of your cravings.

Cravings, after all, don’t just appear out of nowhere – there IS a reason for them.

 

Understand the potential source of your cravings

Often, it could be due to you simply lacking micronutrients. You know, your body requires both macro and micronutrients; and while many of us always focus on the macros, ie: carbs, proteins or fats, we often neglect the importance of the micros, the vitamins and minerals. If these are deficient, our body can’t function optimally.

Hence, our body let’s us know (of deficiencies) by creating cravings. 

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Perks of a short stroll

You probably know by now:

too much sitting raises the risk of stroke.

But of course, you can reduce your risk – otherwise I wouldn’t write this post, right?

 

Sitting & Stroke

A recent study (S. Thosar, Indiana University) among many others concluded:

when subjects sat still for 3 hours, blood flow in their leg arteries decreased significantly after the first hour.Continue reading