Happy New Year, with the best wishes for this fresh start (in numbers only).
Because for me, the real new year, the true start or restart, comes with spring. When everything in nature comes back to life. Anyway, this is not our subject today. Today, I want to talk about New Year resolutions.

Every year, we reflect on the past twelve months and wish for something better for the next ones. We are full of hope, motivation, and good intentions. We want to start something new and finally stick to it.

But reality is less enchanting.

Most people struggle just to start their New Year resolutions. And if they do, they often give up after three weeks, somewhere before the end of January, when motivation fades and real life takes over.

So the real question is not what resolutions to take, but how to make them last ?

Why Start the Year With Healthy Resolutions?

Because health is the foundation of everything else.

Your health is the biggest asset in your life

Healfitful-health and weight loss coach

When your energy is low, everything feels harder.
When you sleep better, eat better, and move more, you think better, react better, and live better.

Healthy New Year resolutions are not about looking perfect.
They are about feeling good enough to show up fully in your life.

You dont need many resolutions. You just need the right ones.

How to Start a Healthy New Year Resolution

A healthy New Year resolution starts always from good intentions. It turns always to restriction or punishment.

Extreme changes, strict rules, and unrealistic expectations are the main reasons why New Year resolutions fail.
The goal is not to transform your life overnight, but to build habits you can sustain beyond January.

So which resolution to take? A realistic one with a little bit of challenge to make you progress in your life.

The Best Healthy New Year Resolutions to Take

Here are some of the best and easiest resolutions for this new year that will definitely improve your health:

• Practicing Dry January
• Eat Less Junk Food
• Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
• Sleep Earlier
• Reduce Screen Time
• Exercise More
• and Walk Whenever Possible

How to Stick to Your New Year Resolutions

This is where most New Year resolutions fail after two or three weeks of motivation.

Here are some useful and practical strategies that actually work. I will name the most important one first :

1 – Turn Resolutions Into Habits

Motivation is unreliable. In the opposite, habits are highly reliable.

If you need to decide every day whether you will follow your resolution, you will eventually quit.
Habits remove decision-making from the process.

Make it simple, build systems.

Start with repeating your resolution into actions everyday, same time, same place, same action, until it becomes automatic.

When a behaviour becomes automatic, it stops feeling like effort.

2 – Start Small. Smaller Than You Think

Big changes feel exciting but rarely last.

If your New Year’s resolution is to exercise more, start with five or ten minutes.
If it’s eating better, start with one meal per day.

A habit that is easy to maintain beats an ambitious one that disappears after two weeks.

3 – Attach New Habits to Existing Ones

This technique is extremely effective.

Drink water after brushing your teeth.
Stretch after making your morning coffee.
Read before bed instead of scrolling.

You are not starting from scratch, even better you are just improving an existing one.

4- Design an environment favourable to success of your resolutions

Willpower can be exhausting, and some of us don’t have a strong willpower. It is much easier to design your environment in a way that favours the success of your resolution than relying in your inner willpower. For example, stop buying junk food so you don’t have to control your impulse to eat it.

If junk food is visible, you will eat it.
If your phone is next to your bed, you will scroll.

Make healthy choices easier:

• Prepare fruits and vegetables in advance
• Leave your book on your pillow
• Keep your walking shoes by the door

Your environment should support your New Year resolutions. Let your environment reflect your resolutions.