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To ask what your NY resolutions are?

89 replies

PrinceofWales · 31/12/2017 10:04

Mine are

  1. to focus more on being healthy and taking care of myself.
  2. start the research for my book
  3. be more organised ( can anyone recommend an organiser app or something?)

What are yours? Or anything you'd like to change next year?

OP posts:
SnowFairyDust · 31/12/2017 16:40

Same as always, eat less & spend less!

ginorwine · 31/12/2017 18:19

Try to be more positive . I worry and scare easy . Dd may be leaving uni and after adjusting to her going and having v v much needed time with dh we may have to say goodbye to all the quiet we have been having
Linked to above - decide wether dh can make it or do we need part
It's linked to the first two !
Get out at weekends
Plan more things
Exercise more
Try to be more grateful for things
Plan dh anticipated retirement
Try to enjoy my family more ( am hermit like by nature in the house ) - any ideas welcome . !
Continue to give to charity but also do actions linked to charity or welfare .

ProseccoMamam · 31/12/2017 18:23

Find a good skincare routine (and stick to it)

Cut out crap from my diet (I'm removing one 'bad' food each month)

To socialise more

To exercise (nothing major like a 10 mile run by February. Just some stretches and Pilates/Yoga each day to strengthen my core and tone up)

Littleredpoppy · 31/12/2017 18:25

Boring and predictable, but:

  1. Lose a stone
  2. More yoga
  3. More exercise in general
  4. More water
  5. Look after my skin a bit better

Am doing dry January which should help with 1, 4 and 5. Have signed up for 30 days yoga starting on 2nd, really should run tomorrow....

IrkThePurist · 31/12/2017 18:27

Lose a stone.
Sort out the garden.
Redecorate.

the last 2 will help me do the first Smile

mumofthemonsters808 · 31/12/2017 18:40

To get back to healthy eating.
To get mega fit.
To reconnect with my garden.
To make some new friends.
To stop reflecting on the past, overthinking and dwelling.
To continue not smoking
Get back to reading books instead of going online.

I'll see how I get on

thenightsky · 31/12/2017 18:43

Lose a stone.
Sort out my tiny but awful dark garden.
Do dry January in the hope that I can drag my alcoholic friend along for the ride.

Now... here's a weird one: Give up running. I used to be good at it, but over the last 4 years its just worsened my joints and given me pulled muscles/ligaments/tendons every few weeks. Me and running are parting company.

ForalltheSaints · 31/12/2017 18:48

None.

Racmactac · 31/12/2017 19:01

Improve my mental health by

  1. Meditate
  2. Stop drinking as much
  3. Be kinder to myself
  4. Focus on setting up my new business
  5. Stay single.
Bapple · 31/12/2017 19:01

To be kinder ... to other people and myself.

User11011 · 31/12/2017 19:22

To buy everything second hand. Only exceptions:

  1. Obvious consumables
  2. Underwear
  3. Bed/bedding for new baby

I've started already - avoided the sales and got myself and dd some new clothes from charity shops and bought a breast pump with bottles from FB for a bargain price.

Trying to save for mat leave and reduce my carbon footprint.

ilovechocolates · 31/12/2017 19:36

To get fitter
To find the real me cos it's got lost somewhere along the way
To get focused
To find my purpose in life

HopefullyAnonymous · 31/12/2017 19:38

Deadlift 100kg
Save more
Eat more healthily

Hadenoughoftumble · 31/12/2017 19:39

My whole life needs a serious overhaul. Here goes-

  1. Put down my phone.
  2. Start meal planning and stop feeding my family beige freezer food. Start cooking colourful, flavourful meals that we sit down together to enjoy.
  3. Concentrate on being healthy by overhauling my diet and building up my fitness levels (which are non existent!). Hopefully this will help me lose the excess weight I am carrying.
  4. Try out minimalism and get rid of all the stuff that is stuffed into every corner of this house!
  5. Be outside more. Be present with the kids.
  6. Be more patient and kind.
  7. Read! I used to read so much but I now just stare mindlessly at my phone. This links to no.1.
  8. Stop being so lazy and be way more productive.
  9. Actually try to stick to these!
Tisfortired · 31/12/2017 19:41
  1. Can getting pregnant be a resolution?! I hope this year is our year.
  2. Save save save - stop spending on frivolous shit I don't need.
  3. have more patience with DS.
WipsGlitter · 31/12/2017 19:48

Read more - less time on my phone
Lose weight
Go on more holidays
Go out with DH more

2017SoFarSoGood · 31/12/2017 20:08

To refuse to bring one thing into my shiny new house that is superfluous to our needs. No clutter.

I shall clean up after dinner every night. DH cooks so only fair.

Get healthy.

Be happy. I wish that for all of us. Count our blessings 💖

PersonAtHome · 31/12/2017 21:21

Prince it's a children's book. Which genre is yours?

echt · 31/12/2017 22:05
  1. Keep up with the couch to 5K I started before Christmas.
  2. Read more.
  3. Take a holiday.
StickThatInYourPipe · 31/12/2017 22:36

My main one is to read at least one book per month. I love reading but never make time for it outside of holidays.

That and the usual, lose weight etc I have packed the fags in so now I want to do a full cigarette free year

Good luck everyone!

hungryhippo90 · 31/12/2017 23:00

I have quite a few New Years resolutions.....
1- to concentrate on my health, this means maintaining healthier eating habits and trying to deal with my anxiety- a mixture of the two have seen me have blood pressure spikes of up to 170/116 over the past few weeks. I'm very scared and feel I owe it not only to myself, but also my daughter to get this under control, I'm so scared I may not reach 30 and my child may grow up without me.

2- commit to my surgery date of 1st April to have my gastric sleeve. I am scared shitless, but the resolution is to keep to that date, as it will help with the hypertension, weight loss, and maybe I'll enjoy life much more when I'm lighter and know that my weight isn't going to kill me (god I'm a barrel of laughs tonight aren't I!)

3- to travel more.

4- to figure out a way to bring extra revenue to our family business, we aren't doing badly, but I want to pull my weight a little more.

5- be a little more forgiving of myself. I need to give myself the understanding I give to other people.

these are all quite selfish things that I intend to focus on in the new year, hopefully the next year I will be able to focus more on others. But this year it feels like I need to focus on myself or my family may not have me for much longer... this may of course just be my anxiety!

Wishing everyone a prosperous 2018!

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 31/12/2017 23:13
  1. Learn to do a crash dive barani ball out on the trampoline
  2. Lose weight (aiming for 9 stone 7)
  3. Start Couch 2 5k when we move and then sign up for one of the muddy obstacle races (a shorter one, not Tough Mudder).
  4. Stop shouting at the kids - new house is semi-detached.
RebeccaBunch · 01/01/2018 13:02

I want to continue with changes I've been softly implementing already:

Running
Eat 10 fruit and veg a day
Less social media
More books
Reduce single use plastics wherever possible.
Sew my own clothes.

RebeccaBunch · 01/01/2018 13:03

When I say "I want to" I mean "I will"

Gingernaut · 01/01/2018 13:15

Lose weight - eating less in general, eating less crap and getting out to do some sort of organised physical exercise.

Carry on with BSL- want to pass Level 1.

Bring myself up to speed with Mathematics so I can join a GCSE Maths class and pass at 7, 8 or 9 level in the next academic year.

Carry on with the choir - I've got a plan to surprise people at work which will involve secret one-on-one singing lessons.

Pass my driving test. My hazard perception is complete shit at the moment.

Get a little more organised. Got a calendar and OneNote on my phone, a wallplanner, an inspirational calendar, a goal setting journal and notepads and ordinary notebooks. I have no excuse. Blush

Carry on managing my chronic conditions and possibly come off the antidepressants.

I think that's enough for this year.

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