New Years Resolutions 2008

Post your 2008 new years resolutions.

I'll start:
Quit smoking (maybe)
Quit drinking on weeknights
Start working out again
Lose 50 or 60 lbs
Stop post whoring on the forum so much at work and do some actual work

That sounds too ambitious jon. 
Hit the gym, sure.  Quit post hawrin', no way.
 


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my resolution is to not let women keep me from doing the things i want to do

my resolution is to not make stupid resolutions i'll never conform to anyway...

a new years resolution is a procrastinators invention!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to make the only resoloution that I know I can keep.  I make the resolution to make NO resolution!  Dang that doesn't really work either does it....

Getting women to let you do what you want (liqour in the front, poker in the rear!) might be harder that quitting smoking.


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Yeah I rarely ever make resolutions.  But this year is different.  My clothes are getting tighter and tighter.  I am sick of being a lard @$$.  Quitting drinking during the week helps cut down the calorie intake, working out makes muscle(or restores the "asleep" muscles that are already there in my case) and burns fat.  So most of my resolutions could be summed up by saying "get back in shape."
Quitting smoking is a personal choice.  Really I'm just getting sick and tired of paying so much money for cigarettes.  When I realized that when both my wife and I smoke a pack a day each, that costs us roughly $2,190 per year, it's a pretty good motivator.  I know if I quit my wife probably will for good.  She can quit (such as for 9 months during the pregnancy) but I am a bad influence cause I smoke like a train.  When she is at work she takes smoke breaks with the nurses to socialize.  I work at an insurance company so smoking is pretty frowned upon.  I only smoke on my way to work, on my lunch break, and then when I get home at night.

I don't think quitting smoking will be ALL that hard.  i have quit for a few days before when I had pneumonia and it wasn't too bad.  I just know the hardest part about it is going to be not smoking when I drink.  There's nothing like a nice glass of scotch and a cigarette (or 10) at the end of a hard day at work.

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ORIGINAL: klrspz

my resolution is to not make stupid resolutions i'll never conform to anyway...

a new years resolution is a procrastinators invention!!!!!!!!!

Only if your already a Procrastinator does that count
                         WheelBrokerAng

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ORIGINAL: live2rice

my resolution is to not let women keep me from doing the things i want to do

**You must be looking to get a restraining order against you from all the Women Then
 
                                   WheelBrokerAng


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jon-
  will you quit smoking pole too?

ed

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ORIGINAL: smaglik

jon-
will you quit smoking pole too?

ed

  SMAG..what that Mean above???

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ORIGINAL: smaglik

jon-
will you quit smoking pole too?

ed

*ROFL* ah the comments I could make....

Jon, kudos to you if you do pull through, in particular about the smoking.

I've read articles stating it takes ~4 years for the lungs to get as good as they will get and ~8 years for the brain to get back to a normal chemical balance.

So you got some time on your hands?

and yeah, i hear ya bout the clothes.. i'm not as thin as i used to be thanks to my wife's delicious cooking!

the trick to staying thin is to get up at noon.
no joke, because you get up at noon you only really eat two meals, and maybe a snack.
plus it helps with stress, which can also make it harder to lose weight.

of course you also cant have a job...


and this coming year im turning 18....
so im buyin a motorcycle. thats my resolution.

its a good point.  getting a late start to the day cuts down on your intake, but, it makes it tough to make it to the 8 oclock class, meeting, job, whatever.

eat small portions throughout the day as opposed to big meals.  your stomach will shrink as you do this, and then you'll feel full faster when you do have an entire meal.

i was 250# in 1997.  I had nice, supple breasts.  Got down to 180 or so, ran a few marathons, now I hover around 190-200 most of the time (a decent weight for my height...6'1").  Its all in your head...

thats also true, but its very hard to eat healthy in small doses, most "small dose" foods are things like ritz bitz (which i love), chips, etc.

a friend of my dads lost nearly 40 lbs just decreasing his portion size when he eats meals. like having 2 tamales instead of 3 tamales, etc.

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ORIGINAL: smaglik

i was 250# in 1997.  I had nice, supple breasts.  Got down to 180 or so, ran a few marathons, now I hover around 190-200 most of the time (a decent weight for my height...6'1").  Its all in your head...

for a second there you had me questioning your gender *L*  I'm not a diet person by any means but my wife struggled with an eating disorder for years.  Aside from excersize the easiest way to loose a few pounds is simply healthy, balanced, average sized meals. My aunt was eating virtually nothing for a while trying to loose 10 pounds.  She got laid up from some surgery so my sister in law came over and started cooking her healthy average meals.  She dropped 12 pounds simply by diet change AND increased the amount of food she ate.

You could also try the fist diet.  If it's bigger than your fist don't eat all of it.

SMAGLIK LOVES THE FIST


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no one said it was easy...

I quit smoking 5 years ago. It was easy. Get a surgeon to say that you have less than a year to live and that he would not carry out heart by-pass on a smoker. Piece of cake !

that's called motivation.

My....... New Years
Resolution                       Make more $$$$$ so i can spend More!!!
                       Also to Pimp out my Snowflake (aka 91 Accord)

SO JON, how's the Cheeb?  Does it taste like a Marlboro?
(I bet myself a nickle I couldn't go one day-I lost.)

ExLady, you're the only one of us with any sense at all.
(or maybe it's just me).  I woulda posted that as a resolution if I thought there was a chance of more $!