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2018 Resolution

geminigemz90
geminigemz90 Posts: 305 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I want to start my New Years resolution 3 months ahead. I am doing mine in October to have a head start to 2018. This is a new strategy/plan I am approaching. When do you start new years resolution.

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  • ISweat4This
    ISweat4This Posts: 653 Member
    Good luck. I don't do resolutions, I set goals and work on achieving them.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    edited September 2017
    I don’t. If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing now. I don’t wait until Monday/the 1st of the month/year/Neverary. I applaud your choice to start now on whatever goals you want to work toward.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Good for you for finally deciding to start!
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  • 150poundsofme
    150poundsofme Posts: 523 Member
    Started today. Best of luck in achieving your goals and keeping the goal ever forward.
  • steffer20
    steffer20 Posts: 65 Member
    Lol I made my resolution for 2017 to lose 40 lbs and its october, and Im still the same weight. I kept starting and stopping, but im definitely starting now, till the end of the of the year and refuse to give up this time :(! good luck!
  • Meghanebk
    Meghanebk Posts: 321 Member
    Today is always the best day to start. Good luck!
  • poldenjr
    poldenjr Posts: 1 Member
    My 2018 resolution is to finish the weight loss journey that I started in 17. 80 pounds in with 175 to go (since April). I got this!
  • amyepdx
    amyepdx Posts: 750 Member
    I didn't really call it resolution - although it was around Rosh Hashanah :) but after indulging through my birthday "weekend", I set a one year goal to be at my goal weight by my 60th. 26 lbs - 52 weeks (includes the 6 I gained). First stop, finally making it to 100 lbs lost - 7 to go! You can do it!
  • EatingAndKnitting
    EatingAndKnitting Posts: 531 Member
    I don't make resolutions either. I just start things whenever. I started MFP on December 30 last year (I've had an account for much longer than that though) and started lurking on the forums around January 1st along with the New Year's resolutioners. I'm still here and most of the people I added at that time aren't.

    Just make this a habit rather than a resolution. I think you'll stick with it longer. Everyone knows "no one" sticks to resolutions, so I suspect there is a psychological built in excuse for failure in calling it that. You don't intend to fail, but because everyone knows you can't stick to a resolution, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that you don't stick to it.

    Starting now is a great idea though! So is starting over again tomorrow. And the day after that. It's early enough before the holidays that got can build good habits now rather than try to build them during the stresses of the holidays.

    Good luck to you!
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    I also don't do resolutions (though coincidentally did start using MFP a few days into the new year in 2015).

    If you have goals, start today. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year :)
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