It’s that time of year, when once again, we start thinking about how we can improve our lives. Without question, one of the things that always tops our list of New Year’s resolutions is getting back into shape.
The good news is you don’t have to do anything drastic to start down the path to better physical fitness and health in 2019, but you do have to make some changes.
“The first thing is it’s got to be a lifestyle change, it can’t be a temporary change,” says Wes Dudgeon, chair of the Department of Health and Human Performance. “You can’t say ‘I’m going to go hard core and run every day of the week.’ It’s not going to happen. We know from the literature if you make realistic, holistic lifestyle changes, you’re going to have more success.”
That means you never again need to go on a diet.
We’re trying not to use the word diet anymore because it means temporary changes rather than making more holistic changes in what you eat,” says Dudgeon. “So, for example, one change might be to say ‘I’m going to avoid processed sugar or avoid white flour.’ Those are easy steps you can make. People tend to fail when they say something like ‘I’m not eating carbohydrates at all,’ but when you go to a party and all there is is pizza, you can’t avoid that. Making those simple lifestyle changes – and making it a full lifestyle change – is a good start.”
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