If your New Year's resolution is to lose weight, maybe try taking it slow and use January as a month where you think about your relationship with food (or as mental exercise), then slowly incorporate physical exercise after a couple weeks in order to not overwhelm yourself and risk failure.

This is how I managed to lose 98 pounds this year, from 293 to 198 (25M, 6'0). I am glad I took that route because, yeah, when you start out, it can seem slow, but you have the whole year and time really flies by. By doing it slow, I feel like it's helped my body not develop troubling loose skin, and I feel like my new lifestyle has been very sustainable after so many prior failures.

My goal starting out was just to go from fat to less fat. I didn't obsess over a specific number because it can be overwhelming, and honestly, I would have never imagined 12 months ago that I would reach onederland. I have been on a very steady 10 lbs decline each month since July or so, so if the trajectory keeps steady, I'll be about 150 on April.

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