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Did you make a “resolution” to lose weight in 2012? If so, I bet you think I’m going to tell you that New Year’s resolutions don’t work and that you should focus on setting goals or make a “lifestyle change” or something like that instead. If you think that’s what this newsletter is going to say, you’re about to be surprised.

New Year’s resolutions DO work—even weight loss ones. You may have set the same New Year’s resolution every year since 1979, but that doesn’t mean that this won’t be the year that it happens. How do I know this? Because after 15 years of setting the same resolution to lose 40 pounds, 2011 was the year that I finally did it.

What made the difference this year? Was it some new diet I discovered or a pill I took? No. I’ve been on every diet known to mankind—some more than once. I’ve never taken shots or diet pills, but I know people who have and some have lost weight and some haven’t.

In fact, that is the case with EVERY diet. Some people lose weight and some people don’t. If the diet is the same for everyone, then the variable must be the people who go ON the diet. But many of us have had the experience of a diet “working” for us, and then the next time we try it, it doesn’t work. So, if it’s not the diet, and it’s not the person on the diet, what is it? What makes the difference between a successful weight loss effort and one that is doomed?
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