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2012 RESOLUTIONS: Put some thought into it

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 10:37am

When you read the words "New Year's resolution," what is the very first thing that comes to your mind?

Most teenagers will plead guilty to having their first thought of a resolution being something simple along the lines of "losing weight" or "getting good grades."

It seems like no one really considers putting the effort or time into making a meaningful resolution, and my question for such teenagers is, "Why?" Why not take a quick five or 10 minutes to sit down and actually put some thought into a resolution that could possibly be helpful in the long run?

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RESOLVE TO ... Approach the new year with simple goals

Dr. Kay Judge, Dr. Maxine Barish-Wreden McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 11:02am

The New Year is upon us, in all of its promising potential. A year of new beginnings, new resolutions, and new possibilities. There may be much we cannot change around us -- the economy, our jobs, housing, insurance.

But we all can focus on our most important foundation -- our health -- to help carry us successfully through the next year.

A theme of simplicity may help herald change this New Year and can be approached in many different holistic ways:

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Utahns plan big leaps for 2012

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 7:47pm

OGDEN -- When trying to improve your life, what's best, baby steps or giant leaps?

Rhonda Lauritzen, Ogden-Weber Tech vice president of student services and a popular motivational speaker at the school's Student Success Center, is a giant leap kind of woman.

"I heard about a great study five or six years ago where people who were unhealthy were told by their doctors they had to change their lifestyle or they would die," Lauritzen said. "Almost everybody was unable to stick to lifestyle changes, but one group succeeded, and it was the group that made the most dramatic changes."

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Fitness enthusiasts at Weber State University didn’t use the school’s winter break as an excuse to stop exercising. (NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner)

New Year's goal to be fit? Resolve to revamp goals

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 12:55am

OGDEN -- If this New Year finds you promising yourself, yet again, that you'll adopt a strenuous gym routine that will leave you as buff as a fitness model, you may need a resolution revamp to get it done.

Joan Thompson, an associate professor of Health Promotion and Human Performance at Weber State University, said following certain steps can help anyone enjoy a happier, fitter 2012.

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Bad brain! Stop sabotaging those New Year's resolutions!

Lauran Neergaard, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 2:02am

Uh-oh, the new year has just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break -- they get wired into our brains.

That's not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become ingrained has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad.

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Out with the old

Becky Cairns Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 2:05am

Did you wage a wrestling match to wrangle those new holiday toys into the kids' already glutted toy closet?

Are your kitchen cupboards so disorganized you can't find soup or nuts, or anything in between? Is that desk trembling under the Mount Everest of papers piling up on top of it?

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EPIC FAIL: Some teenagers' New Year's resolutions quickly fall by the wayside

TX. correspondent Emmie Oliver

Last updated Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 3:02am

The New Year's Resolution. It can come in many forms: scribbled down on the page of a notebook, published via a Facebook status update, frustratingly vented out to a friend in mid-December, or just a measly declaration that "Next year, I'll ... (fill in the blank)".

I started writing this story the day before its deadline.

As one of my many 2010 New Year's resolutions was to stop procrastinating once and for all, this is an example of one of many "Epic Fails" that teens came across this year regarding their New Year's resolutions.

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Look to the past to see if your weight resolutions will work this time

Lavinia Rodriguez, St. Petersburg Times

Last updated Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 12:39pm

If the commercials, the talk show hosts and the annual crop of new diets are to be believed, making a resolution to lose weight during the new year is not only a good idea, it's mandatory.

Resolutions imply sincere intent and motivation to make it happen this time. But if there's ever a time to look to the past before planning for the future, it's before you make another resolution to lose weight.

A recent study of weight gain during the holidays found that the average weight gain from mid November to mid January was less than a pound. Fewer than 10 percent of the study participants gained five pounds or more. Although this doesn't sound bad, the trouble is that the pounds that are gained tend to stick around, only to be joined by more the following year.

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