Weight Loss Resolutions: Why Are They Popular And Why Do They Often Fail?

Stuck In A Food Rut

When in doubt about what to eat when trying to lose weight, you are likely to fall back on traditional diet choices like simple salads for days on end. Only rotating between a couple of dishes or even not rotating at all will make both you and your body bored. It’s a food rut! For most of us, food ruts mean our cravings will climb slowly but then skyrocket, often resulting in overindulging or otherwise going for unhealthy food choices in large quantities, more frequently, et cetera. If it carries on long enough or the food rut is severe enough, it can make your weight loss resolution backfire entirely.

It’s clear now: the lack of many different elements increases the chances we fail at weight loss resolutions. It’s not even over yet!

Lack Of Accountability

How do you make your resolutions? Do you tell anyone what your resolutions are? Sometimes we tend to just keep resolutions to ourselves, especially quite personal ones like wanting to lose weight. This is a major reason why many of us fail at keeping weight loss resolutions in the first place! If no one else knows, what are the consequences of not following through? This can also apply to being accountable to yourself. If you only think about your weight loss resolution but don’t write it down, you are more likely to forget! Without accountability, both to ourselves and to others, we are far less likely to do what we said we would. Besides, having someone check in on your progress has more of an impact than you might think.