How To Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

Resolutions don't have to be dreaded this year. Registered Dietitian Silvia Bonome from the Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness knows it can be hard to stick to them. In this video clip she gives tips to plan a realistic New Year's resolution goal.

Rebecca Brayton: Managing your money, losing weight and eating healthy are the three most popular New Year's resolutions. Hi, I am Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and today we are speaking with the nutritionist about how to keep at least two of these promises. What would you say is the trick to making resolutions that we can stay with all the year. Silvia Bonome: Making a list of our resolutions or even become mindful of what we would like to change or improve. We need to make sure that we are setting realistic goals to accomplish these. Rebecca Brayton: How do you find balance and avoid developing kind of an unhealthy goal? Silvia Bonome: We definitely want to avoid those drastic diets. Those are absolutely unnecessary. The first rule that I would recommend is to make sure that you are eating at regular intervals in the day so not skipping meals. People think that by skipping meals we are eating less therefore that will allow for a weight loss if that's the goal. But in fact it's the contrary that happens. The body slows down in the way it's functioning. It uses energy less efficiently instead of going after the fat stores that we want to manage better and get rid of. The body is at risk and depleted some muscle stores. Rebecca Brayton: We hear a lot about staying hydrated. Why is this so important? Silvia Bonome: In our diets in general, for anyone, any age group male or female for this human body, water or proper hydration is a fundamental principle. And I would recommend a liter of water distributed throughout the day. We don't drink the whole liter all at once. If you prepare a glass of water before your meal, it helps to appease your appetite so you can control your appetite better. I wouldn't say a minimum of one liter I would say just around one liter. Some people drink too little water or too much, it's a nutrient and we must respect it as a nutrient. Therefore distributed properly throughout the day in the right proportions. Rebecca Brayton: Would you say people typically stick to their resolutions? Silvia Bonome: They can with some good planning. Jamming down their objectives, the resolutions becoming mindful and setting to action, developing new habits, making little changes, or recognizing the change that they need to make also realizing that they don't need to set unrealistic goals. Rebecca Brayton: Thank you very much. Silvia Bonome: My pleasure, thank you.