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New Year’s resolutions are notoriously apt to fail. It’s been estimated that only eight percent of people who make a New Year’s resolution actually keeps it. As stated in the featured article:

“The annual tradition of breaking a New Year’s resolution is observed perhaps just as strictly, if regretfully, as that of making one. Research into motivation, for instance, knows that for a task to be accomplished, the actor must genuinely want to complete it – wanting it to be completed isn’t enough.”

Losing weight is a popular New Year’s resolution. According to recent research, your age may have something to do with your level of success in this venture. But as I’ll discuss below, dieting isn’t really the answer to achieve the health and wellbeing you seek.

Instead of vowing to lose a set amount of weight, you’d be far better off making a decision to improve your overall lifestyle. Normalizing your weight and improving your health will come as natural outgrowths of this.