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MARTINSBURG Whether it be to run a mile every day, read a new book weekly or to simply be more charitable in one's community, officials are urging the public to be a bit more specific and realistic with their New Year's resolutions so those goals arent long gone come February.

According to Dana DeJarnett, West Virignia University Medicine East Wellness Center and health promotion coordinator, the new year ushers in a fresh start that most people capitalize on to address an area of their lives they feel could be improved upon.

Resolutions come up, because its the new year, a fresh start, but most people, by the middle of February, have either not attempted their resolution at all or have allowed it to fall by the wayside, DeJarnett said. Most people give lip service, but if they dont believe they can, then they really cant do whatever it is they say they plan to.

According to DeJarnett, most often, resolutions come in the form of health goals, including losing a general amount of weight over the next 12 months or exercising more regularly, but simply making these overarching goals does nothing for seeing them come to fruition.

Most people say they want to lose weight or start exercising, but it's better to make it actionable or more measurable, DeJarnett said. So, instead of just wanting to lose weight, make your resolution to lose 10 pounds by the end of February, and then you have to make your action steps part of that how are you going to lose those 10 pounds? Maybe by walking three days a week for one or two miles at 7 a.m. By making it more specific, you are more likely to achieve it than just going after a blanket statement.

In addition, DeJarnett said people who are determined to see their resolutions through this year can do what she said is common practice at the wellness center through its self-management program.

You can check your self-confidence level from zero to 10 zero being you dont think you can do this at all and 10 being you are absolutely confident in yourself, DeJarnett said. Youre goal is to have a confidence level of at least seven. Do you really believe you are going to do this goal every single day? Instead of setting ourselves up for failure by saying we are going to run two miles every single day forever, we can say we will try to run a mile at least three mornings a week, because it is more manageable and more likely to be completed.

DeJarnett said while the year may have changed, the current pandemic status has not, and she encouraged community members to look into the various WebX and virtual workout classes offered by the wellness center, where people participating can interact with a trainer or coach in real time while maintaining their safety.

While ensuring safe distancing and goal accomplishment is key, DeJarnett added it would be a good idea to also find ways to interact with friends or loved ones safely, so as to feel connected and supported during the resolution process.

Whether it be meeting up with a friend or family member at a park to work out or practicing a new skill or hobby together, DeJarnett said having someone there who is striving for the same things can be a great motivator to those who might fall off track.

DeJarnett added specific, clear and achievable goals can translate to any resolution set such as reading a certain amount of written material a week or learning a new skill, so long as each part of the process is set, and ones confidence is there.

Its always good to have something to strive for and look forward to, and its always good to feel like youve accomplished something, DeJarnett said.

For more information about virtual programs offered, visit the Wellness Centers Facebook page at WVU Medicine Wellness Center.

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Here are some New Years resolutions that are better than losing your quarantine pounds. (eda can, iStock via Getty Images)

Every year around this time, we set resolutions. We have no real intention of keeping these promises, but kid ourselves for a week or two.And, honestly, it feels nice.

Many times, we include a goal to lose weight. This year, that particular resolution will be even more top-of-mind for some, given the effects that the pandemic has had on the poor, sad little bodies we live in.

But losing weight is not a good resolution. Dont get me wrong: I am all about being physically and mentally healthy, eating well, exercising and journaling. But ones overall health is far greater than what a scale says. Body shaming ourselves and others for how we look is trash.

Lets leave all the trash in 2020.

So some of us at The Know came up with 10 resolutions to consider in the new year, ones that are significantly better for you than losing your quarantine weight.

Weve all picked up too many hobbies while in quarantine, and cannot possibly keep them up. Its too much! For example, at one point or another this year I have decided to become a piano player, chef, artist, astronomer, author, botanist, furniture-flipper and TikTok influencer. I was not successful at any of these endeavors. But more importantly, I did not enjoy half of them. So I gave them up. And thats OK! Im not about to waste my evening stabbing at keys while trying to master a Mozart sonata just so I can justify buying a keyboard.

Did I exist yesterday, a week ago, a month ago? Did you? I couldnt say. It doesnt matter. Time isnt real. Lets lean in.

So, you dont like Taylor Swift. You think Kristen Stewart cant act. You full-heartedly believe In-N-Out Burger is mediocre. Thats nice, but no one cares. Stop getting mad at people who get excited about things just because you dont share their joy. They found happiness in a sea of sadness. Stop drowning them in negativity.

We bought a skeleton from Target to celebrate Halloween this year. Hes now sitting under our Christmas tree. When the Christmas tree leaves, hell stay. He is our skeleton now, and our skeleton can stay forevermore. So keep your Christmas lights up until January. Heck, keep them up until July. Why not? As previously discussed, time doesnt exist.

Some days, I dress up to work at home so I can cosplay as a normal person. Other times, I wear the same running shorts two days in a row. Have my clothing choices impacted my productivity? No. When we return to our newsroom, I plan to present management with a petition to normalize sweatpant use. I encourage you to do the same.

If you havent started therapy, youre really missing out. Its all the rage these days. Treat yourself by setting up an appointment with someone who is paid to hear you talk about yourself as you cry. (This is not meant to belittle the benefits of therapy, honest.)

Many a Coloradan was already leading a dehydrated life before the pandemic. And then we started having multiple breakdowns a week. Add this to our significantly increased hand sanitizer usage and our bodies have turned into ashy raisins. Rectify this by drinking more water. The best way to pick up a new habit is totie it to an existing one. In this instance, drink a glass of water every time you cry. Your emotional and physical self will thank you.

My therapist shout out to Resolution No. 6! once described our energy levels as spoons. We only have a finite number of spoons, and once you run out, youre out. For example, if you use up all those spoons at work, youll have no spoons left for activities after work, such as playing a rousing game of thefun, family-favorite Spoons. As you go about your days, think of your spoons and how you plan to use them. And if you need to be lazy so you can stock up on more spoons, do it!

Obviously, you shouldnt join a real cult. But consider joining a fandom! Everyone needs friends who support them, and its nice when those friends share your interests. These cults fandomscan take many forms. I enjoy astrology, so force all my friends to download the Co-Star app so I can stalk their birth charts (shout out to my fellow Tauruses!). My fiance loves the K-Pop band BTS so spends half her time sending concert videos to fellow stans. My mom was in Greek Life in college so does weekly Zoom calls with her sorority sisters. Go find yourself a nice community of people who share your random fanaticism and make some friends. But, like, dont join an actual cult.

If theres one thing this pandemic has taught us, its that we need to support one another. Order takeout from local restaurants. Buy a book from a local independent bookstore. Get a record from a local musician. Pay for local journalism. And wear a mask.

Elizabeth Hernandez and Josie Sexton contributed to this fascinating report.

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10 New Year's resolutions that are better than "losing quarantine weight" - The Know

During this harrowing time, I have been preoccupied with losing weight. I havent talked about it much, preferring to shed in isolation. For those who have noticed the clues my slimmer face on video calls, occasional pictures from my wife on social media, a few text-message references the reaction always includes the same question.

How much have you lost?

I tell them, Ill let you know when Im done.

When youre winning on the scale, losing can be a tease. Over the past 10 months, I have felt lighter and lighter. I have acted out my favorite athlete clich, the one in which a player emerges from the offseason claiming to be in the best shape of his life. Discarding pounds has been a method of control, a way to corral the chaos and make lemons into sugar-free lemonade. This pursuit seems so right for 2020. Were all wanting to feel light again.

But as we have been reminded in a year of illness, death and strife, loss can be heavy, too. There is a poignant multiplicity to loss. At present, that poignancy keeps thwacking me in the heart, the same heart I thought this skinny me would protect.

How much have I lost? I will let you know but not in celebration. This is surrender. Im not quite done shaving pounds off my body. However, I cannot bear losing anything else.

Gone are 123 pounds since Feb. 7, heft dismissed via low-intensity exercise and a keto-based diet. But also gone are my paternal grandparents and a maternal great uncle, all of whom were buried in Louisville during a two-week span around Thanksgiving. Im light, finally. Yet heavy, again.

The devastating part is that so many of my actions in 2020 have been to avoid suffering. The motivation to drop weight? A dizzy spell that prevented me from covering an NFL playoff game in January. During the pandemic, most of our family has kept at least one foot in lockdown mode. We live in bubbles throughout the country, and for as difficult and mentally taxing as it has been, we had delighted in being healthy, in fending off the physical agony of covid-19.

Still, suffering found us. My three loved ones endured well past 80, for which we are grateful, but as usual, the ailments of aging won.

I did not travel from Seattle to attend any of the funerals. My brother, who had a bout with pneumonia in the past year, did not leave Boston. In our bubbles, we watched live streams of funerals sparsely attended. My wife and I watched them during breaks in our oldest sons virtual school day. Nothing is sadder than sitting at a table of computers unable to comfort my devastated father and attempting to reinvent rites taken for granted.

I am not writing just to expose loss, though. I dont want to wallow in grief. Its the meaning of it that matters to me. I feel this ambiguous connection to strangers I have had to avoid, and my soul demands exploration. There is pain and confusion and anger in the losses of 2020. There is community, too.

How much have you lost? So much can be revealed: Weight lost, people lost, innocence lost, ignorance lost, patience lost, apathy lost. Shock lost. Seriously, can life ever be considered surprising again?

A better question: Will we turn this wretched experience into something meaningful?

Grandpa loved to joke. Give him a compliment, and he would still send a quip boomeranging back. I used to hug his thinning body and declare, You look like youve lost weight. He would counter, And it looks like you found it.

He wasnt being mean, just real. His affable delivery kept me from turning sensitive. It was far more bothersome when people I didnt know would refer to me as big man. They werent being mean, either. And there was no use lying to myself just to disagree.

When I said enough and stepped on that scale Feb. 7, it flashed a terrifying number: 327.2. It was at least 30 pounds more than I had anticipated. And while the 327 was most troubling, it was the point two I couldnt get past. Point two. It was the most taunting two fastened to the end of a big number since Alex Rodriguez signed that contract for a stunning $252 million two decades ago.

I weigh 204 pounds now. So make that 123 point two pounds down. I am 6-foot-1 and hope to lose 10 more pounds, but my goal is not to lower the number as much as it is to maintain good health and stifle obesity for the rest of my life. Our boys, 5 and 8, often begin sentences with, Dad, when you can eat sweets again I think to myself, Jerry, when you can start drinking again

There is no intentional inspiration in these words, no declaration of, I lost 123 (point two!) pounds, and so can you! I did not swear off carbs, sugar and liquor for praise. I did not fall in love with celery root, fennel and jicama to satisfy vanity. I did it to breathe better, to stop the peculiar aches, to chase the kids longer and play basketball without needing aspirin.

My doctor said something that made me think of it this way: My body still wanted to be a great team. It was resilient. It still had potential. But with my indulgences and mindless behavior, I was being a lazy ball hog. Or just pigging out.

Many times over the past 10 months, I debated whether to share, how to share and when to share the news. In my mind, this despicable year kept demanding that I wait, for a better time, until the right moment.

This year, however, is numb to right.

Besides, there is no established way to reveal that you have lost more than the combined weight of your children. Is that worthy of bragging? Can it make me forget how the scale used to inspire fear, then anger, then sadness? Excessive pride in this accomplishment this salvation of my health feels inappropriate. After being heavy for the better part of 20 years, it also feels wrong to risk coming across like I am better than someone else just because I followed through on a commitment to get lean again.

My grandfathers witty retort kept coming to mind this year. One afternoon, I researched what happens to lost weight. I had to make sure nobody found mine.

In a philosophical sense, to live is to lose. Losing is an inevitable part of the experience. To find is more elusive. Finding is no joke.

How much have you lost?

But what have you found?

In sports, there is noticeable tension between how participants and viewers perceive winning and losing. The public and media are consumed with the overwrought judgement of every result. The greatest athletes and coaches care mostly about discovery along the journey. Their obsession is to find themselves to find their best and use every triumph and failure to get there.

Heather Tarr, the magnificent softball coach at the University of Washington, told me once at the end of a regular season, I hope the year has taught us enough about ourselves. Her team was 45-6. What else was there to know? But she wanted to achieve something greater than a gaudy record. The best in sports are purists that way. Some wins frustrate them. Some losses reassure them. They look beyond what they are going through and prioritize where they want to go.

Thats where I want to be, mentally, emotionally. I am not there yet. But thats my aim.

Grandma died first, leaving this world feeling excruciating pain in her hips, pain that turned her beautiful soprano singing voice into screams with even the slightest movement. Hours after her funeral, my grandpa started to let go. He had barely survived surgery last year to remove cancer from his lung. He suffered from dementia. It seemed as if, after she died, his mind forced him to keep losing her again. He was ready to stop losing, and his lungs were eager to assist.

The timing concluded the sweetest cannot-live-without-you love story. James and Barbara Hightower grew up together in Warren, Ohio, built a life together through military travels and settled in Louisville together as a churchgoing, community-fabric couple. Their marriage spanned 63 years, not always wonderful and rosy but undoubtedly persistent and engaged.

We have done a lot of tallying of loss this year. The tracking of these numbers feels like a morbid version of sports. Our dissimilar reactions to some of them the covid-19 deaths and infections, the jobs erased, the economic devastation, the senseless killings by police, the baseless attacks on the outcome of a presidential election decided by a 7 million-vote margin fuel mistrust and resentment at a time in which pandemic-dictated caution limits the type of connection we need to heal. So much has been lost. So little has been found.

Every day, in the quiet moments at home, I stare out a living-room picture window, waiting and wondering, gazing at people roaming the neighborhood in small clusters and staying politely apart. I daydream about normal living, good living, robust living. I imagine my friends being able to joke in person about Skinny Brew. I dont hear anyone calling me big man.

If weight loss is my good loss for the year, the maintenance of this new body tasks me with an unending responsibility, one that mirrors the challenge to soothe all of this 2020 pain.

In the last phone conversation with my grandfather, the day before his wifes funeral, I told him I weighed the same as he did, only Im five inches taller, so my frame holds it better. He laughed. Then he forgot. So I made the joke one more time.

He didnt have a good comeback. His mind had lost its reserve of lighthearted banter.

In his absence, I have yet to find it. But I will keep searching.

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Jerry Brewer: Tallying up a year of loss - A lot of pounds, too many loved ones, countless connections - The Spokesman-Review

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the most common resolution Americans make each year is to lose weight.

One Tulsa gym is preparing for an increase in foot traffic despite increased COVID-19 cases across the state and country.

Josh Bishop is a member at Beyond the Gym.

"I think everyone starts that in January, Bishop said. That's, like, the hope. That's the idea."

Bishop admits that was his motivation in 2020.

"Now, it's staying healthy to keep up with my children, Bishop said.

Bishop has managed to stick with a steady routine. It's a testament, Bishop said, to the gym that continues to provide a safe space during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There's cleaning stations everywhere, which I really like, said Bishop. It makes me feel a lot safer. It's been a great experience."

Operations Manager Jamie Booker said they bank on the New Year bringing in more business. He said they're already seeing an uptick in new members.

"January gets pretty crazy, Booker said.

Booker said they typically see about a 50 percent increase at the start of the year and told News On 6 they're prepared to ramp up safety protocols.

"COVID obviously kept everybody in their houses, Booker said. A lot more food in your house. A lot more access to it. There's some folks that probably got out of hand."

Beyond the Gym members are required to wear face coverings when moving throughout the gym and are responsible for cleaning the equipment after using it.

The gym has a UV light machine that runs 30 minutes daily, killing 99 percent of viruses and bacteria, including COVID-19.

"That was one of the main weaknesses of COVID was its reaction to UV light, Booker said.

The gym is capping its membership at 200 people and is offering deals this month.

Booker said getting healthy is a resolution worth following through with.

For more information about Beyond the Gym, click here.

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With the new year approaching quickly, many people are getting plans in line for their "New Year - New You" ambitions! We are excited to tell you about one business that is ready to kickoff the New year with a bang! In our December 29 segment, we will highlight Innovative Lasers of Houston to learn how this company may be able to help you jump start your 2021 fitness goals!

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For a long time I kept all of them. And not just at New Years, either. Two stone? Lost. Savings target? Met. Dry January? Easy. I took a healthy packed lunch to work every day. I kept my trainers by the bed for 6am runs. I read War and Peace, then I read it again. In short, if I willed some lifestyle change, it happened but isnt that how it works for everyone?

Apparently not. Spock-like, I noted how the other humans seemed to sack off their good intentions within a few weeks even making a big joke of the whole resolutions business and I was confused: like, seriously, when are you lot going to get your acts together?

That was all before I decided to give up smoking. It is hard to pinpoint in which year this happened exactly, because the fear of failure was such that it took me from 2006 until 2011 just to admit to myself that I did indeed want to give up. I was a social smoker 10 cigs on a Friday night, 20 on a Saturday, none during the working week so there were also long periods when I could easily kid myself that it was not a problem.

Eventually I faced up to it: my smoking addiction, with its enmeshed physical and psychological effects, could not be conquered by willpower. For the first time in my life I began to appreciate the vast ocean of complicating factors that might lie between Step one: resolve to do something and Step two: get it done. It was time to dive in.

Coming to understand these factors was a slow and humbling process. Like 90% of smokers, I had taken up the habit as a stupid teenager and my thinking had not matured much since ducking out of double maths to share a B&H behind the caretakers shed. On some unarticulated level, I believed that courting a cancerous death was life-affirming and that ignoring overwhelming medical evidence was exercising my free will. Imagine my horror to discover that, actually, I had just been meekly lining the pockets of big tobacco all along. There is nothing rebellious about that.

An ex-smoker friend recommended Allen Carrs bestseller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. After a few repetitious chapters, I realised it was not so much a self-help book as a self-hypnosis course. Carrs fundamental insight was something my prideful reliance on willpower had obscured: our lazy brains play tricks on us to avoid any effortful change, but they can be tricked right back. Ellen had been working against Ellen and now Ellen (with the help of Allen) had to wrestle back control.

There is a whole body of literature dedicated to disseminating such practical, proved methods of habit-forming which is all any successful self-improvement amounts to. The approach works I did not light up for several years. But it is not exactly foolproof, either. A lockdown relapse has reminded me that I am still a fool for a cigarette with a glass of white wine in the wrong conditions. I have, however, fully embraced the overarching lesson of giving up smoking: self-discipline without self-knowledge is like a cigarette without a light.

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Lose weight, save money, cut out booze? I could do that! But give up smoking? - The Guardian

For some, another year might just mean another failed attempt at seeing New Year's resolutions all the way through. There are statistics that show only 9.2% of people report actually achieving their resolutions. Many people get easily frustrated with themselves if they don't fulfill the goals they set, even if they don't see immediate results from the efforts they do put in.

However, it's possible that the types of resolutions you are making are, in fact, setting you up for failure. Frankly, you might just be making the worst resolutions possible. Think about it: do you really want to achieve an unpractical goal? Or worseone that benefits you in the short term and then backfires in the long term? It's time to scratch those plans and start fresh.

We asked doctors to share what they and their colleagues consider to be the worst New Year's resolutions you can make for 2021 so you know what to avoid. Read on, and for more on how to eat healthily in 2021, don't miss Simple Ways to Start Losing Weight Immediately, According to Science.

"As a doctor, it is common for me to encounter patients that will say they want to eat healthier. The problem is that they often do not know exactly what this means, and the resolution is not specific enough. It would be more helpful for an individual to first define what eating healthy is and what it means to them. Next, they should be specific about what changes they plan to make in their diet to ensure they are eating healthier." Or, check out these8 Easy Tricks for Eating Healthy Every Day. Cedrina L. Calder,MD

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"It's easy to set benchmarks for physical beauty by the celebrities we see every day, but trying to look like your favorite celebrity isn't just misguided, it's downright unhealthy. Everyone is different, including their genetics, body chemistry, and lifestyle. Celebrities often have certain advantages (physical and financial) that the average person doesn't have, so many people will be disappointed if their efforts of healthy eating and exercise don't lead to A-list results." Dr. Hayley Brown of Desert Hills Plastic Surgery Center

"Instead of focusing on the number on the scale and having extreme goals that will create unhealthy outcomes, why don't we instead focus on behaviors we might want to change. Perhaps you want to engage more in body movement in the new year or maybe you want to be more mindful of listening to your body cues of hunger [and] fullness and not engaging in mindless eating. That is more sustainable and healthy in the long run!" Kelsey M. Latimer, PhD, CEDS-S, and Founder of Hello Goodlife

For more, check out11 Mindfulness Hacks to Eat Less, According to Experts.

"As a physician of internal medicine and vitamin expert, I see many people make resolutions to take large quantities of vitamins in the new year. This is not a good idea for many reasons. First, it never lastsno one continues taking handfuls of supplements forever because it's frankly too much and it's neither pleasant nor good for you. Secondly, it is not good for your health. These handfuls of pills are typically excessive and can, in fact, cause harm. We do advocate a personalized approach to taking the right vitamins based on your diet, lifestyle, and health concerns. Doing so, via a personalized multivitamin (only one or two pills daily) is typically the best way to get what you need in safe and doable amounts. It is also much more likely to create a lasting and effective habit that will ultimately give you better health, energy, and ability to improve your overall lifestyle."Arielle Levitan,MD, co-founder of Vous Vitamin, and co-author of "The Vitamin Solution: Two Doctors Clear the Confusion About Vitamins and Your Health."

Read more:7 Side Effects of Taking a Multivitamin Every Day

"Saying that you want to start exercising or exercising more is a great resolution to make, but it isn't specific enough. Sticking to this goal will be difficult if you haven't first defined what exercise means to you, and how you plan to carry out this resolution. Make a clear and specific resolution that includes the type of exercise, the amount, and the length of time." Calder

"Liposuction is not a weight-loss tool but a body shaping process. It works best in patients who are at or very close to their normal weight, and have stubborn areas of fat that are out of proportion with the rest of their figure." Dr. John Corey, board-certified plastic surgeon

"All too often, people eat and drink too much from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve. People decide to starve themselves beginning Jan. 1 to get rid of the excess weight quickly. This is a terrible resolution because our bodies turn food into energy so we can accomplish the tasks of daily living, including keeping our brains healthy. Without new sources of energy, our bodies rely solely on our stored fat, which turns into ketones, and too many ketones can be unhealthy."

Here's a better New Year's resolution instead:

"Many people don't want to hear it, but eating healthy, sensible meals and exercising are the best ways to lose weight year-round. It is not a quick fix, but it's a long-term solution to live our best, healthiest lives." Dr. Miriam Alexander,medical director of employee health & wellness at LifeBridge Health

"This is another great resolution, but people fail at it because they don't know the best way to go about quitting. Very often, people attempt to quit "cold turkey" and unfortunately, very few people are successful at this method. What people don't realize is that the best method to quitting involves a combination of two things: tobacco cessation medications and behavior changes. To increase your chances of successfully quitting smoking, speak with your doctor about medication options, and ask to be referred to a behavioral therapist or seek one out on your own." Calder

"While some exercise is better than none, exercising indoors exclusively can deprive us of exposure to sunlight. Sun exposure helps our bodies synthesize vitamin D, a hormone that is important for bone and tissue health, immunity and other metabolic processes. Exercising outside is a good way to help boost your vitamin D levels in the coming year." Chirag Shah,MD, co-founder of Accesa Labs

"We often put the needs of other people first, so we put off taking the time to make healthy foods, exercise, get enough sleep, relax and other basic needs. To make up for 12 months of not taking care of ourselves, we decide to make the new year the time we are going to get our lives in orderevery aspect of our lives. Unfortunately, if we try to do too much and to change too many things at one time, this can set us up to fail at everything." Alexander

Instead, pick just one or two of these20 Resolutions Diet Experts Want You to Make.

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A recent survey of adults in the United States revealed that 71 million Americans have gained weight since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. About 71% of Americans also admit that their weight impacts how they feel about themselves, including their identity. This was expressed strongly among parents and women. In fact, women and moms were impacted more than men by weight gain during the pandemic.

Biotechnology company Gelesis partnered with third-party research firm Kelton Global to conduct the study, which took place from October 26, through November 3, 2020. An online survey was taken with 1012 adults responding.

According to this survey, about 3 of every 5 Americans are trying to lose weight.

For the full survey results and methodology, check out the official press release here.

The struggle to get healthy is real for so many people these days. There are some things that everyone can do to stay healthy that don'tinvolve loads of money. The first thing is to remember to move more and not eat a bunch of unhealthy snacks all day.It's important to not make yourself feel bad or get in your own head about weight loss, that can derail the whole thing before it even gets going. A positive attitude goes a long way. Remember that getting healthy is a process, you may see and feel results right away, it may take a while, and sometimes it's a roller coaster.

Along with a healthy diet, it is important to exercise and get yourself moving more. This is a big one, and it can be hard to stay motivated, especially when people are working from home all the time and have a lot of things that can get in the way. Check out our guide on how to stay motivated to exercise, as well as these tips on how to get back into a workout routine after months of quarantine. Research has shown that exercise boosts immunity and can help ward off COVID-19, which only adds to the benefits of starting a healthy routine right now.

Most importantly, don't give up on getting healthy. Find a friend or family member that wants to go on this journey with you and support each other.Getting healthy is a worthwhile goal and something that will benefit the body and mind. It'salways worth it, and though it may be hard, and not fun at times, you are worth it.Here is to a healthier, happier 2021.

How do you feel about being healthy during the pandemic? Have you found yourself gaining weight, or feeling less active? We want to hear how you are doing, and ways to get healthy in the comments.

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With the hoodies, jackets, layers of clothes, winters seem like a gem of a season but also one of the reasons you overeat and dont think and care about your body. So, here are 4 tips and easy ways to lose weight in winters, easily and happily.

So, in winters we dont think much about the food, and Ould like to eat hot food, like pizza, or burgers, or even chole bhature, but that would not help you in losing weight right, so eating the right food in regulation is the key to losing weight.

For example- once in a week it is okay to eat chole bhature or junk food, but other days try eating food without processed goods in it. Like avoid ghee, butter, oil, replace it with better and less calorie version.

Yes, it is cold, and who wants to get out of the bed only to exercises, well, hats the wrong attitude. Its not necessary to lose weight you have to get out of the house, rather why not do yoga at home? All you need to do is allocate only 30 minutes out of your busy schedule to do some exercise.

for example-

a. You can jump for 30 minutes, it gets your heartbeat up and pumping and lets you lose weight or

b. Or 30 minutes you climb up and down the stairs, it helps you get your leg in shape and well lose weight from stomach and back.

c. Even 30 minutes of Yoga, with crunches, meditation helps you in keeping a tab on physical and mental health.

Well, the winter season also means parties, as it is the end of the year- New year, Christmas, Diwali, and so on, so rather than drinking the party fluids and spoiling your body regime, why not replace it better fluids. Like juices, water, even black coffee works, but whiskey and other party fluids should be reduced. They have added sugar in it, plus help you in gaining weight so easily.

One other problem of the winter season is that we become so comfortable in bed, that we would rather stay in bed, than go to the kitchen to get a glass of water, sadly, that not how things can work right? So, drinking lots and lots of water helps in maintaining a healthy weight. Make sure to drink water, as it makes you feel heavy and you wont go eating some or the other wrong food.

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KOKOMO - As 2020 comes to a close and people across the world look toward 2021, many of those same people will begin to contemplate their New Years resolution. Losing weight, swearing less or being a better person are often discussed, but in the end, many find it difficult to see their goals through.

The question of how to keep resolutions has many answers, depending on the goal, but patience and perseverance are two strategies many in the know agree on.

S.M.A.R.T. decisions

One of the most important processes to any goal or resolution is to break it down to smaller steps and then plot your course to those steps. Kokomo Family YMCA Director of Wellness Allysha Smith advises using S.M.A.R.T. specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based goals, no matter what they hope to accomplish in the new year.

Everybody is different, so because one person is able to lose a pound a week and the next person is only able to lose maybe half a pound every other week, its going to vary, the personal trainer said, adding that goals like losing 50 pounds in two months would be unreasonable.

I think the best thing to go about is writing out your S.M.A.R.T. goals. I think if you can really sit down and think about what your S.M.A.R.T goal is that will really help you establish a goal that you can attain reasonably.

Megan Allen, a dietitian for Community Howard Regional Health, said goals and resolutions often fall off or flop due to being too vague or too big. Instead of these sweeping goals, Allen encouraged people to examine not just their goals but the steps to accomplish their goals, a process she calls reverse engineering.

For someone whose goal is to exercise more, she suggests examining what its going to take for that to happen. Needing a gym membership, subscribing to a streaming service, looking up workout videos on YouTube to get a library of routines to do at the gym are all parts of that goal. Once thats sorted, deciding what time of day the gym is a possibility for someone and then examining if childcare or work schedules will need to be rearranged are things to look into. Any goal or resolution can be broken down.

Even just having a specific, measurable goal actually needs a lot more planning than just that, she said. You need to completely reverse-engineer that goal so you know exactly what thats going to look like in your life personally.

Allen added that she always asks people choosing to start a weight-loss journey how they want to feel at the end. She said that while the number on the scale may be motivation at the beginning, sometimes it can lose its luster. She encourages people to take note of non-scale victories like how they feel instead of what their numerical weight is.

She also cautioned that the common all or nothing mindset of totally giving up certain foods as being unhealthy and restrictions are common in typical fad diets. She recommends concerning yourself with the healthy foods you can add to your diet rather than telling yourself not to eat something.

I tend to find that some of those less healthy foods just naturally work their way out, or the portions of those foods naturally become a little bit smaller, because youre eating more foods that build you up, Allen said. You just naturally just dont want those foods as much, but theyre definitely still a part of your diet, but its that mindset shift of what can I add to my body? instead of just automatically going to Im trying to improve my body, what do I have to cut out?

Finding purpose

Kayla Denny works out with free weights at the Kokomo Family YMCA. Advisers say fitness-related New Year's resolutions should start with small, attainable goals, that can build on the momentum of accomplishment.

Howard Community Executive Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health Matt Oliver also encourages breaking resolutions and goals into small parts. This gives everything the person does purpose, and giving actions is something Oliver cannot stress enough. Not only does this make goals more manageable, but it gives the person steps to celebrate completing with their friends and family, which helps raise confidence.

The more you do those small things, the more confidence you feel, he said. The more confidence you feel, the more confidence youll have to go bigger, to go broader and to sustain that change.

[H]appiness is not the destination, happiness is in the growth and in the process. Be patient and celebrate the small stuff.

Oliver said to make sure any resolutions, for New Years or otherwise, are focused on purpose, break them down into small, obtainable steps, and celebrate all along the way. He stressed the importance of looking at why someone is choosing to complete a resolution and ask, what does (the resolution) mean for you and what does it allow for you thats different from today?

With the current COVID-19 pandemic, its reasonable not everyone who wants to choose weight loss as a resolution feels comfortable heading to the gym each week to work out. Smith said there are plenty of ways to be active while staying home. Searching YouTube for at-home workout videos is a place to start, and just trying to be active for 30 minutes a day though activities like aerobics or yoga can be helpful.

Whatever the goal, Smith said to remember results take time.

Its going to be hard, but its going to be worth it in the end, she said. We are in a place in this world where we want instant results and, unfortunately, thats not how this works. You have to give yourself time to achieve realistic goals.

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