Day 2

"Girl, I'm going on a diet this year. No, for real."

Do we really want to go through that exercise in futility: the New Year's Resolution List? And which resolution tops everyone's list? Weight loss. Let's consider a new approach. Throw the list in the garbage. Now, instead of resolving to do something tomorrow, use the day to feel and visualize the changes you want to make in your body and your life today. Close your eyes and feel the pounds melt off your body. See the new you in your mind's eye. Imagine yourself in new, outrageous clothes. See your hair styled in a different way. Now go to your kitchen and throw out one food item that's no good for you, just one. Go outside and walk briskly around the block. The point of all this is to make the beginning of the new year a time for action. Don't waste the day on writing the same tired list you wrote last year. Instead, start the year off on a good foot. You'll set a powerful, positive tone for the next 363 days.

I commit myself to action today!