Keeping those new year’s resolutions

It’s a new year, and that means many people have made resolutions to lose weight, exercise, quit smoking, and eat healthier. But some are already failing.

Kelly Taylor is working on some poutine, instead of her resolution. “My son just said that to me, ‘how’s your diet going so far’, as i’m eating my fries.”

Kelly says she doesn’t typically make a resolution. “It’s sticking to your resolution, we all set these goals four ourselves and then you get disappointed when you fail and you don’t follow through.”

Cheryl Jones wants to eat healthier this year, but hasn’t started yet. “I figure next Monday, and then it’s no more buying junk food, don’t have it in the house because that’s the only way I can not eat it.”

Losing weight and exercising more are popular resolutions every year which means the YMCA is busy in January, as Jacki Kostuk explains.

“There is a percentage of people that will drop off but what we do is we try our best to connect them with a coach, get them set up on a program, whether it’s in our fitness centre, in our pool.”

Alyssa Hrymak has two goals this year: “to lose weight, to be happy.” But she’s a quitter. “I don’t know, I lose motivation, I’m going to try to keep my motivation up, that’s why I have my friend.”

She has a different strategy this year. “My friend is going to keep me motivated. I always used to do it by myself, so this year I have a buddy to keep me going.”

Jacki Kostuk says setting achievable goals is important.

“You do see those people that come in and think that they set unrealistic goals, so they set a goal that they’re goiing to lose ten pounds within a month. What we try to do at the Y is we try to make it more of a lifestyle.”

One small achievement after another, and you’ll eventually reach your end goal.