{"id":3024,"date":"2019-01-09T00:30:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/2019\/01\/09\/keeping-your-new-years-resolutions\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:14:19","slug":"keeping-your-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/health-hub\/keeping-your-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping your new year&#8217;s resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was your new year&#8217;s resolution? To lose weight? Get fit? Despite our best intentions, it can be hard to stay on track.\u00a0We have some tips to help you:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<strong>Be realistic<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Understand what you are capable of and what is realistic for you and your lifestyle. If you want to exercise more, try locking down an achievable amount of sessions a week. Don&#8217;t force yourself to go to the gym every day or to run a marathon &#8211; you&#8217;ll only burn out.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<strong>Talk about your goals<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Share your plans w<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ith family and friends so that they can encourage and support you along the way (maybe even join in!)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong>Set a time frame and break your goal into smaller ones<\/strong> &#8211; Planning sets your resolution into motion. A time frame helps you aim for something and monitor your progress. Breaking your big goal into smaller tasks makes it more manageable.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0<strong>Don&#8217;t beat yourself up<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Gone off track with a few barbecues and parties or missed training sessions? Get back on the horse and keep going. The road to success is full of ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0<strong>Treat yourself<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Doing well? Making great progress? Pat yourself on the back and treat yourself. Not with a few chocolate bars but in other positive ways such as a massage or movie.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0<strong>Ask for support<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; There are many health professionals and programs that can help you get healthier. The\u00a0<em><em>Life!<\/em><\/em>\u00a0program is one of them. We&#8217;re a free healthy lifestyle program that can help you achieve your 2019 goals.\u00a0<strong>Call 13 74 75 or message us to speak to our friendly team.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button teal\" href=\"#health-check\">Take the health check<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was your new year&#8217;s resolution? To lose weight? Get fit? Despite our best intentions, it can be hard to stay on track.\u00a0We have some tips to help you: 1.\u00a0Be realistic\u00a0&#8211; Understand what you are capable of and what is realistic for you and your lifestyle. If you want to exercise more, try locking down an achievable amount of sessions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeprogram.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}