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As you might or might not have read – I decided to partake in Lent this year by giving up: all sodas (to include what I drank the most, Diet Pepsi), chocolate, red meat, alcohol and all types of meat on Fridays.  I had also given up Nutella but turned out…that was going little too far.

Three weeks have gone by and I am amazed by how easy it’s been to stick to my Lenten Diet.  I’m quite shocked I haven’t been craving chocolate; it used to be my biggest weakness. It really doesn’t hurt that day in and day out; I’m reading and writing about health and fitness.  The benefits of healthy living and eating are so MANY and OBVIOUS.  Like I wrote in the blog post, Be Healthy Not Superficial – eating right and working out used to be a very superficial endeavor for me, but not anymore.

Every day that I improve my diet (the type and quantity of food I consume) – the better I feel and the more energy I have.  I can feel my body functioning at a more efficient level.  Every day I eat healthier and exercise; I’m minimizing my chances of getting cancer, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, and other diseases plaguing millions of Americans.

After reading Alison’s post on To Detox or to Not Detox – I’ve decided to do my first Detox ever.  I will let y’all know what my experience is like. Once I’m done with the Detox, I plan to cut back on coffee…particularly the artificial sweetener I use in my coffee. (I currently have about a cup a day)

In the last six months, I’d tried to get my diet back on track and couldn’t get it done so I’m very grateful Lent gave me the opportunity, motivation and reason to do it.  I’ve always been a strong believer in doing things for yourself – but apparently sometimes it’s easier when you do things for a bigger cause.

How is Lent going for you?  Are you feeling better and healthier too because of the things you gave up?

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The next most popular thing to do in our culture this time of year, aside from the top ten lists is to make New Year Resolutions.  In the next few days, I’m going to post some blog posts to give you, what hopefully will be, some new insight on how to make New Year Resolution and whether or not it’s even worth making them.

Lets start out with the 10 most common New Year Resolutions and why people won’t succeed.  Next we’ll get into greater details of why people fail at their resolutions and we’ll finish up with three steps to making successful resolutions.

Top 10 Most Common New Year Resolutions are:

1. Exercise more
2. Lose weight
3. Stop smoking
4. Stick to a budget
5. Save or earn more money
6. Find a better job
7. Become more organized
8. Stop procrastinating
9. Be more patient at work/with others
10. Eat healthier

Looking at the top 10 most common New Year Resolution it’s apparent that we, those of us who make resolutions, do so with a goal in mind.  There is something we wish to be, accomplish, change or obtain.  However, what most of us do is arbitrarily set our resolutions based on our shortfalls or a desired outcome and end result in mind.

For example, the resolution to lose weigh…if you have never learned to eat healthy; you don’t know how to read food labels, you don’t understand what your body needs and how your body uses food/calories – how do you plan to be successful with your resolution?

So to no surprise, a few weeks (for some it’s just a few days and a selected few it might be months) into the New Year, we renounce our resolutions and surrender ourselves to the way things are and have always been.  Here are 10 reasons why:

Top 10 Most Common Reasons Why People Will Not Succeed:

1. Made the WRONG resolution
2. Made a resolution for someone else
3. Lack of support
4. Lack of a genuine commitment
5. Lack of motivation
6. Lack of passion towards the resolution(s)
7. Insufficient resources
8. Inappropriate intentions
9. Little to no accountability
10. Lack of a plan for success

Hmmm…that means that every year we have a tradition that technically sets up for failure?  Or is it our lack of knowledge, understanding, planning and beliefs in regards to our resolutions that sets us up for failure, not the resolutions.

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