So, it’s New Year resolution time again! How many people begin the year with the same old weight-loss resolution and say to themselves ‘This will be the last time’.
An estimated 25 million people will start dieting again on January 1 in the hope that this time it will somehow, be different, that they’ll lose weight and keep it off for good. Sadly, all the evidence…
SEEING all those magnificent marathon runners made me think about what drives them to take up such a huge physical and mental challenge. My dictionary defines motivation as “the desire or willingness to do something; enthusiasm” but that hardly begins to describe what it must take to run 26 miles and 385 yards around London on a hot day – or to train relentlessly week after week on lonely…
CUT your daily sugar intake by half! That was the advice recently from the World Health Organisation, which woke up belatedly to the planet’s mounting weight problem. But how much is half? Trying to find the answer to that is so exhausting you might need a cup of hot sweet tea afterwards!
I did a very unscientific survey among friends and their guesses of what the new suggested…
DON’T want to be a killjoy, but did you know that research shows the first week in February is when most women ditch their New Year diet because they can’t hack it any more? It’s about now when willpower turns into won’t-power and all our resolutions go to pot.
It’s estimated that 15 million Britons are on a diet at any one time. That’s one person in four! Funny how so many of us…
HERE’S two amazing things about the way we live:
One: Most women who go on a diet give up after five weeks and two days.
Two: Over half a million people who join a gym in January stop going within months.
Why do we behave this way?
Because it’s a habit. We think dieting or going to the gym will solve the problem of a bulging waistline – so every year we do it. Year after year after…