Happy February!

This gem popped up in my e-mail this morning on Jillian Michaels' newsletter Losing It! with Jillian Michaels.

Resolutions Going Off Course?
Have your daily workouts begun to slip? Has your food intake gotten way out of hand again? Maybe the problem is with those New Year's resolutions you made exactly one month ago. If you've already blown them, they probably weren't realistic to begin with. Don't throw in the towel. Think about what went wrong and then work on ways you can fix it. Chances are you need to break your big resolutions — like lose 40 pounds — down into several smaller goals with milestones. Need some help tweaking them? Check out what one of my teammates said recently about why some resolutions don't work and how you might salvage yours.

"I think that you need to visualize what you want every day using little things. That little dress or those `perfect' jeans that don't fit — buy them or pull them out of the closet and try them on every time you don't want to work out or you want to eat ice cream. People don't realize that little goals are what is going to get you there. People make these huge resolutions, but don't decide on the way they are going to accomplish them. It is very difficult to wake up at 3 a.m. [to work out]. I would think that you just need to get on a consistent schedule where working out is something you do, just like going to work. Just find a time each day that works the best. For me it is easiest to go right after work. If I do this I don't have the chance to get occupied with cleaning or to get busy with something else. Taking a gym bag to work makes me have no excuse to go home first." – bree66

Don't let yourself get stuck before you barely even start. Get motivated again — and get moving! You won't regret it when the pounds come off and the results of your hard work pay off.

I don't know about you, but my resolutions are WAY off course. I haven't been looking at the small goals - I've been too focused on where I am now instead of where I want to be. Well, today is another 1st...it's the 1st of a brand new month...and I am recommitting to my goals and focusing on where I'm headed.

Happy Monday!

Court