New Year's Resolutions Often Focus on Eating Right, Exercising

01/08/2010

Despite this year's heavy emphasis on new year's resolutions involving personal finance, pledges to lose weight and get healthy in general remain highly popular this time of year.

Success requires a degree of discipline and can be elusive, but those who do meet their goals can benefit from lower health insurance costs and an overall improvement in their quality of life over the long term.

With that in mind, a Boston Globe columnist recently spoke with a nutritionist in the Boston area about some strategies people can follow to make themselves healthier in the new year.

The newspaper quotes Joan Buchbinder as saying that people should make realistic resolutions, and accept the fact that it takes longer to permanently lose weight than it does to simply drop a few pounds of water weight.

"If they say they’re going to exercise every day, that’s not realistic because they haven’t been exercising every day. Whatever method you choose has to be one that you like, that you can sustain, and that you can see yourself doing forever," Buchbinder told the Globe.

People can go a long way toward avoiding future health problems and higher insurance rates if they adopt a sustainable exercise routine along with being more mindful of their dietary decisions.

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