The Most Popular New Year’s Resolutions

Let's be real. Resolutions into the New Year are difficult. Let's be truthful again, most people really won't jump on the resolution train until Monday, 1/5/15. After all it's a long weekend so why go through the agony this weekend when you can procrastinate.

According to USA.gov, these are most popular resolutions moving forward. And you can just about guess the most popular. Stop smoking, lose weight, eat healthy, become a better person, better job, continued education even fun things like travel more, play more or learn a hobby.

The fun resolutions are the easy ones! If you want help with some of the most popular resolutions, maybe the following websites can help.

Lose Weight- this is the most difficult. Seems as though our brains are wired to eat and eat the things that are the most unhealthy. I personally can add this thought, I lost a lot of weight using the ZOLA Diet. (Google it for more info) This diet became a lifestyle for me which I still live by. My thought is this, even though you may learn to eat healthy and better, the brain never forgets the smell and taste of food that is bad for you. It is this fact that makes it difficult. The government offers this webpage to help you lose weight.

Tobacco- I can add to this also, from being an ex-smoker. If something happen to me and the doctor told me I had a year to live because of some medical condition, I would definitely go back to smoking!

Any ex-smoker will tell you that smoking, even though it's a bad and a unhealthy habit, it is a habit that we enjoy! I still dream about smoking somewhere, out of the way, secretly and getting busted by someone! It actually wakes me up from a sound sleep.

Tobacco is a difficult habit to break. Speaking from my personal experiences, what helped me was to replace that habit with another habit. I started to run, spend time running with my dogs and rewarding myself after each week of being smoke free. I also quit doing the triggers that would make me want to smoke. Drinking coffee and alcohol. After time, I was able to have coffee and booze with out the temptation of a smoke, but it took sometime to get to that point. I used the patch, and it really helped reduce the urges. The government offers this webpage to assist in quitting the use of tobacco.

Want to eat healthy going into 2015? Choose My Plate.com can assist you with this endeavor.

Need help on alcohol? Rethink Drinking.com has tips and methods to help you cut back or cut out alcohol into the New Year.

Moving into the New Year, remember, taking small steps all add up to help you tackle a habit that you've been doing for years. It took a long time for you to get to this point, it'll take time to reduce or eliminate some bad habits.

Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for people to throw out their resolutions according to USA Today. They do offer some suggestions on how to stick with your resolution moving into 2015.

What is your resolution and what is your plan to stick with it?