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New Year’s Resolutions ≠ Weight Loss
This year, let’s try to be more not less
As we say goodbye to the past year and hello to the new one, it’s extremely common for us to pick a new year’s resolution. We choose a promise or a goal that gives us something to aim for in the year to come. Sadly, due to insidious and pervasive marketing campaigns by the diet companies out there, for the majority of the population, those resolutions concern losing weight.
We may dress it up in other ways, talk about “getting in shape” or “stop eating crap”, or even “get fitter”, but if we’re honest, at its core, we mean we want to lose weight.
It makes me sad that so many people focus on being less, not more. Why should our resolutions be about shrinking our bodies instead of growing as people, actively trying to make ourselves and our lives better?
With that in mind, I’ve drafted out my resolutions for this year. Not just a single resolution, but many all designed to improve my life and help me to achieve my goals. Feel free to steal some or all of them if they appeal to you. If you’ve come up with different ones, pop them in the comments 🙂
