How are your New Year's resolutions going so far? Here's how to stay the course according to some local experts in healthy living.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - It’s about the time when our good intentions of the new year begin to wane and it’s harder to get to the gym or say “no” to that second glass of wine. Erin Widener, Healthy Community Coordinator with the YMCA of Alaska, says it’s normal.
“In my diabetes prevention class, the one that I teach, we talk about lapses and how lapses are normal and part of the lifestyle change,” Widener said. “Every person goes through it. It’s what you choose to do with it, that makes the difference.”“My biggest thing is I reach out, right?” Widener said. “Find a cheerleader, somebody in your corner that wants to encourage you. That’s important.”“I say we’re all on the same mountain but our paths look different,” Widener said.
“I don’t always like to brush my teeth and floss all the time,” she said. “And even when I get a good checkup, the doctor doesn’t say, or dentist doesn’t say, ‘You can stop brushing now. Now that you’re doing a great job, you can stop brushing.’ No, they tell you to keep going.”Life Coach Diane Decker says we don’t have to make what we do mean it’s who we are.
“I think we attach meaning a lot of times to whatever it is. We attach some meaning about our identity. About what does it say about me as a human being that I, you know, haven’t written the novel yet, or I haven’t gotten my house all organized yet?” Decker said. “I don’t have to attach any of that meaning. I can just do the thing. What’s the simplest, easiest thing I can do to move in the direction of where I want to go? And I can just do that for now.
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