12/3/2023 0 Comments Resolutioners at the gym meaning![]() ![]() I know how hard it is to get started and keep going - and I also know how the start of a new year is empowering - so while I understand why most of us assume (sometimes rightly) that the Resolutioners are embarking on a fool's errand, I think we could we have a better attitude about it.This year especially, I've noticed that everyone's really mad at the Resolutioners. ![]() You see, after trying and failing to lose weight so many times, you begin every new attempt at being healthier with a measured skepticism, because you know when you don't have the best track record. I didn't realize that August was the beginning of something until after I succeeded. It was between August 2011 and October 2012 that I lost 120 pounds. I'd skip a day or two, and pretty soon I'd stop showing at the gym altogether, becoming the stereotypical person who starts the new year with lofty weight loss goals and abandons them when the going gets rough.Eventually, I did accomplish the goal I set in my weight loss resolutions each year, but that journey didn't begin January 1. A meal that completely undermined every health goal ever set forth by anyone. But then one day something would always come up. I'd show up to the gym in January side by side with the men who were put on diets by their wives and the women who want to feel more comfortable in a bathing suit this summer, and for about two weeks, I'd dutifully serve my time on the cardio equipment and hit the mat to do all my crunches. When it comes to my New Year's resolutions, it was probably only surpassed in frequency by "This year I'm going to have a boyfriend," or "This year I'm committing to not being so quiet and weird."I never stuck to it. ![]() In fact, I can say with confidence that "losing weight" or "eating better" was probably my staple resolution from the year 2003 through 2011. They're the Resolutioners who have taken your gym by storm this January to get started on their weight loss and fitness goals, and they haven't received the warmest of welcomes.I used to be a Resolutioner. You may have spotted one inquisitively eying a BOSU ball, wondering what manner of cruel and unusual punishment a semi-circle could possibly deliver. There could be one next to you right now on the treadmill holding on for dear life and hiking up a level 15 incline. ![]()
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