What I hate about New Years are the people who suddenly get interested in working out and clog the gym for a couple weeks until their weak willed selves stop going again until the next new year.

I've got one reason for you. . . You are FAT

I started my New Year's resolution early: No more clicking on Cracked links.

oukewldave: What I hate about New Years are the people who suddenly get interested in working out and clog the gym for a couple weeks until their weak willed selves stop going again until the next new year.

It's annoying but many of those people sign year long contracts so when they stop showing up after a few weeks, they're subsidizing the cost of running the gym for everyone else. Kind of like how the lottery is played mostly by poor people to subsidize services to the middle and upper class.

The big problem is the abruptness of the change in lifestyle puts so much pressure on it that any backsliding, instead of being expected and planned for, quickly leads to a total collapse.

It's like people who say "this is my last cigarette ever." That's too much pressure for most people. And once they inevitably have a moment of weakness and slip-up (which most will), instead of accepting their own weakness and recommitting to their goal, they feel like their resolution has now failed, and then it's a quick path back to the old routine.

A better approach is to gradually change lifestyle, acknowledging that there will be slip-ups but remaining committed to the goal. If it's smoking, gradually reduce the number of cigarettes each week, until eventually it's zero. But don't set a hard quit date and don't put so much pressure on any one being the "last cigarette forever."

I really think its the complete abruptness of lifestyle change that dooms most New Years resolutions.

Pork chops. Just hand over the pork chops and nobody gets hurt.

/and gravy
//with bacon bits
///DNRTFA - resolutions are for weaklings

My resolution is to cancel the gym membership I haven't used in a year. I'm pretty sure I can do this thang.

Why is it that all resolutions are about a reduction in body mass or a change in food intake?
I'm not fat or thin but who the fark cares?
Lots of people, obviously.
Dumb nits, what the difference in the greater scheme of things of you eat vegan, nothing, or everything?
Pointless.

"Be a winner not a problem admitter un quit"

I liked the one about not roping other people into your resolution.

My resolution last year was to start learning about football by following my local team (srsly, I'm a woman and I know how football is played, but not much more), but I live in Indianapolis, so you know how that went.

Nah, go ahead and eat that doughnut...
THEY'RE PAYIN' FOR IT, YOU EAT IT!

dogslobber buttlube: Why is it that all resolutions are about a reduction in body mass or a change in food intake?
I'm not fat or thin but who the fark cares?
Lots of people, obviously.
Dumb nits, what the difference in the greater scheme of things of you eat vegan, nothing, or everything?
Pointless.

They all aren't - but it's a common theme. I don't think there is anything else you could do to improve your quality of life/health that would be as effective as diet and exercise. Likewise, while it might be superficial - people are superficial, and there are a lot of advantages to being attractive. For someone who is out of shape, getting in shape, is about the best thing they can do to increase their level of attractiveness.

what i hate bout this of year is nothing bout resolutions it people coming into where i work and asking me to help them cheat on their taxes, I work at a second hand store that takes donations. You would be surprised at the number of people we get starting in Jan and going right up to end of feb or start of march that come in and when doing a donation will ask for a paper for taxes and will ask us to back date it so they can use it on their 2011 taxes instead of waiting to use it on their 2012 ones. I have had people beg and threating me cause they say if they don't get some they will have to pay in or such.

I made a New Year's resolution when I was in the 2nd grade never to have a New Year's resolution again.

/want to change something, do it, don't wait until the end of the year

My 2011 resolution was to lose 30 lbs.

I lost 40 lbs instead.

Eat breakfast and don't drink pop. That's the only change I made.

Trance750: dogslobber buttlube: Why is it that all resolutions are about a reduction in body mass or a change in food intake?
I'm not fat or thin but who the fark cares?
Lots of people, obviously.
Dumb nits, what the difference in the greater scheme of things of you eat vegan, nothing, or everything?
Pointless.

Just something to make people feel good about themselves. Even if only for a fleeting second, or two

dumb and dumber checking in i see. a fourth grader would explain that the point of eating a good diet and doing a little regular exercise is that one enjoys a better quality of life, year after year. as compared to a bloated smoker who creeks their way through the years, huffing, puffing and suffering.

eating properly is not pointless and should not be a fleeting endeavor.

My resolution is to stay fat. I've done the loss-gain-loss-gain thing so many times, it's exhausting. Besides, my husband lost 165 pounds - it's kind of hard to compete with that.

"My resolution is to stay fat. I've done the loss-gain-loss-gain thing so many times, it's exhausting. Besides, my husband lost 165 pounds - it's kind of hard to compete with that."





Lost 75 lbs back in 2007, have kept it off.

You gotta change the way you think too about food, that's why you're on the rollercoaster. Sometimes its only small changes. For me, no more alcohol, no more non-diet sodas got rid of about half of it.

I usually give up my resolutions for Lent.

overheard at the Easton, MD YMCA.


They will be called "resolutionists" or resolutionistas"

I'm making the resolution not to break this resolution.

Best way to stick with your weight loss resolutions is to put money on the line against somoene else. I lost 23 lbs in 49 days last year and won $360 bucks doing it.
This year there are 4 of us on the bet. Whoever loses the highest % of body weight is the winner. So, for example, if I weigh 200lbs and my buddy weighs 300lbs, and I lose 20lbs or 10% of my total body weight, my buddy has to lose 10% or 30lbs of his weight to tie me. Let's say he doesn't lose a pound. He then owes me $20/lb= $20 X 30lbs =$600.

Losing weight and making money doing so is very gratifying. Avoiding staying fat and having to owe money is also a big motivator to diet and exercise.

D-day is March 15th, right before St Patty's day.

drgloryboy: Best way to stick with your weight loss resolutions is to put money on the line against somoene else. I lost 23 lbs in 49 days last year and won $360 bucks doing it.
This year there are 4 of us on the bet. Whoever loses the highest % of body weight is the winner. So, for example, if I weigh 200lbs and my buddy weighs 300lbs, and I lose 20lbs or 10% of my total body weight, my buddy has to lose 10% or 30lbs of his weight to tie me. Let's say he doesn't lose a pound. He then owes me $20/lb= $20 X 30lbs =$600.

Losing weight and making money doing so is very gratifying. Avoiding staying fat and having to owe money is also a big motivator to diet and exercise.

D-day is March 15th, right before St Patty's day.

Just make sure the other person doesn't welsh. That way, for instance, having your tongue cut out so that you can stay silent for a year doesn't backfire on you.

/waiting for the marathon to start

I've never been one for resolutions, I sometimes will make predictions instead.
Predictions for 2012:
I'll cut back a lot on how much I eat and go to the gym twice a week and lose 5 lbs by next Dec.
The GOP primary will continue to be a circus and Obama will win a second term.
I'll continue to by unhappy in my job, but make enough to do some work on my house.

/I find the word 'continue' to be an indication of a prediction that turns out to be true

I always like the John Cheese articles.

It's a pizza.

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i resolve to prioritize a TON of gay porn. KISS YOU MARYS! do it for the good of generations to come.

//super serial

//on a fark of a bender

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