4 No-Fail Diet Resolutions Sally Wadyka
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Eating healthier is always a top New Year’s resolution, but after a year of quarantine baking and stress eating, it may be an even more common goal in 2021. In a recent nationally representative CR survey of 2,670 American adults, nearly 1 in 5 said they re eating less healthfully than they were a year ago. And of those, 54 percent said their diets are worse now than they were earlier in the pandemic.
Despite starting out being inspired to change, past experience indicates that for many people, resolutions fail before spring. A recent study suggests that the difference between abandoning and achieving your goals may lie in the way you phrase them.
Study of 1,000 People Shows The Trick That Helps You Stick to New Year s Resolutions
31 DECEMBER 2020
Are you looking forward to starting or changing something in 2021? Whatever your New Year s resolutions, there s an evidence-based way to make them stick for longer - and it s all in the phrasing.
Rather than telling yourself you ll stop or avoid doing something, tell yourself you re going to start doing something instead. For example: a resolution to stop sitting around so much becomes a resolution to attend a regular workout class.
Follow-ups with 1,066 participants over 12 months found that 58.9 percent of those with approach-orientated goals considered themselves successful a year after making their resolutions, compared with 47.1 percent of those with avoidance-oriented goals.
Let us all strive to make the New Year kinder and gentler
Thursday December 31 2020
Never has the world so eagerly clamoured for the start of a new year.
The desires to end 2020 and commence 2021 afresh seems to reach fever pitch all over social media with clever memes, GIFs, commentary, and prayers.
Beyond the crippling Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 also held disturbing frightful geopolitical and sociocultural trends.
Never has the world so eagerly clamoured for the start of a new year. The desires to end 2020 and commence 2021 afresh seems to reach fever pitch all over social media with clever memes, GIFs, commentary, and prayers. Beyond the crippling Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 also held disturbing frightful geopolitical and sociocultural trends.
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2020 has been a disaster for meeting new people, which is why Per Carlbring s New Year s resolution is to spend next year trying to connect with someone new every day. Carlbring, a professor who heads Stockholm University s Department of Psychology, knows a thing or two about making a New Year s resolution stick. He and his colleagues recently published a peer-reviewed study on the topic.
Carlbring was inspired to embark on the study in December 2015 after he attended a virtual reality conference in his native Sweden. One of Carlbring s research areas is using virtual reality for psychiatric treatments, including as a tool to end people s fear of spiders, which is why he attended the conference. He was having lunch with a couple of colleagues, and with New Year s Day fast approaching, he asked them if they had any resolutions. His colleagues said such resolutions are silly. I mean, they kinda are, right? Earth orbiting around the sun once is hardly a good