Hi There,
Welcome back to K&T blog, how was your week?
It’s been three weeks since the emergence of 2025, if you resolved to adopt healthy habits to improve your health this year, you are a few days shy from making them concrete habits because “it takes 21 days to form a habit“, and soon it will become a lifestyle since ” it takes 90 days to build a lifestyle (it is called the 21/90 rule)“, so keep going 🙂 . But if things are not going so well for you, if you have resorted to your old ways, don’t despair just bounce back because you have completed the most important and toughest step “to BEGIN”.
“Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin!”—Donald Barthelme.
It is interesting to learn (if the internet sources are true) that 95% of New Year’s resolutions are fitness related, and that 88 percent of people who set New Year resolutions fail them within the first two weeks, and that eventually only 10% of people achieve their resolutions. How are your resolutions doing after 2 weeks of 2025? how is your weight loss goal coming along? Are you aiming to be part of the successful 10%?
On our weight loss journey, we discovered that messing up and failing is an essential part of the process of losing weight and a big part of the resulting success. This is because with failure, you get to learn what not to do, you get to strengthen your commitment and you get to improve your efforts every time you try again. But what is most important in this process is bouncing back and how quickly you can do so. We learned that failure is unavoidable and temporary, it is more important to focus on how quickly you can get back on the saddle than focusing on your failure. How many times have we failed? too many times to count. How frequent do we fail? almost daily.
It is progressive to focus on the solution than the problem, the sooner one focus on improving the current situation the sooner they will get going again. If you have binged on some food un-expectantly, focus on making the next meal a healthy one. If you missed gym for a week (or for weeks), focus on starting the next week strong. The key to bouncing back and keeping your resolutions alive is not perfection but improvement, it is on adapting and trying to make things better going forward no matter how badly you’ve done.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin.
Until next week, keep your resolutions alive and stay blessed.
Kat & Tshepi
Kat & Tshepi 