Go Easy on Yourself in New Year's Resolutions

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Cat Tiffin with Expert Village and today I'm going to walk you thru on how to make a New Years resolution and stick to it. Quit drinking list, well that's an easy one, if five years will do it take it down to three, just moderation is going to be the key here, don't stop drinking all together, but know your limits, know your friends, you can go out with your friends and they don't need five or six beers to have a good time, don't. Match what your friends are doing, hopefully you have really good friends, (we're going to mark this off, mark that off). To look better, well we'll say feel better, by the way lists are great, it's going to help you out a lot when you are trying to accomplish these goals, to look better, well obviously smoking and drinking a little bit less, maybe use a little bit more time to work out, nothing big. Say you want to work up to a marathon in a year, I don't think that's an unrealistic goal, what you're going to have to do if you're not a runner is walk, set time out of your day to walk, walk a few miles. It's funny you don't realize how much you walk in the day, get a pedometer and you'll find out. When you're done with the walking and you want to work up to jogging you want to work up to running it's all about steps, something to do, if that's not your thing and you want to work out with an elliptical machine find the closest gym or maybe your apartment complex has one. Don't be embarrassed on how you look think about how you want to look, everybody else in the gym is for the same reason that you are most times, they want to look better they want to feel better, they don't care what you look like, they care about what they're going to look like, so try to take that mentality in with you."