Many chant the same phrase year after year: “I’m going to join a gym and eat healthy”. These are the famous New Year’s resolutions that traditionally topped the list of New Year’s resolutions, but 2009 saw sorting debt top the pile. And around 60% have quit by Valentine’s Day.

With the approaching Christmas and New Year celebrations, many will have to see to the various gatherings, family, eating and other “busyness” than most of us can handle. Unfortunately one of the most common victims of all of our holiday stress is our own health and well-being. Undoubtedly, this time of the year our waistlines will expand. It is hard to turn away good food and sadly we find little time to work it off. So it may seem to be going downhill and people tend to feel 5 to 10 pounds heavier after the holidays.

This is a common result of this accumulating weight gain and people tend to make it their New Year resolutions to shed off that additional weight and start a healthier lifestyle. But as the saying goes, it's easier said than done. Generally, most do not succeed in a long run. Any business related to health and fitness like gyms will see a boom after the New Year but by March, the healthy lifestyle will fade away.

So instead of waiting for New Year, why not start exercising and get healthier now. Start your new healthy behaviours by getting a personal trainer, train with group of friends or utilise your corporate fitness and well-being offerings provided by your company. Try not to fall into the same rut as last year and start exercising and eating healthy now. If you do, chances are you probably won’t gain the weight over the holidays.

By the time the New Year comes around, you will have already established good health behaviours, and you will have an easier time sticking with your New Year resolution which you have already started. As a bonus, not only will you look great before and after the holidays, you will feel healthier too.

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