Manage your health and your expectations

Experts Jen Caudle, MD, dietitian Maya Feller, and mindfulness coach Rosie Acosta discuss the health benefits of movement and advise on productive goal-setting around fitness.

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Fitness and exercise really seems to make everybody's list in some way or another when it comes to goal setting, et cetera.

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Every year, maybe even every month or every week, depending on who you are.

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What's the psychology behind fitness or exercise sort of making that top list all the time?

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Yeah, so moving your body, especially in ways that are pleasurable, have really been shown to improve all health outcomes.

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Everything from cognition, to shifting cholesterol levels, to reducing blood sugars and blood pressure.

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So when we talk about finding these sustainable patterns of movement, we're really tying that in to improving people's health outcomes.

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And Rosie, for folks who have set the same goal every year, how can they make 2023 different?

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Here I go with the unpopular statement. If you've made the same New Year's resolution every year

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for the last two to three years, let it go. It's time to change it to something new, because if you've not done it in the last two to three years,

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chances are you're probably not going to do it this year. And that is going to continue to perpetuate

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this feeling of pressure. You know, you're pressuring yourself to accomplish something that you've already established

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you're not going to do. And now, I'm not saying that so that people feel bad about themselves. I've done it myself.

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You have these goals every year. I'm going to start doing this, I'm going to run more, I'm going to start to be more active.

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I'm going to cut out the desserts every night for dinner. All of those things, where if it's

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something that's not happening, it's time to take the blame off of yourself and examine the goal itself.

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This has nothing to do with you. A lot of the times we feel it's us, we're bad or we're unable to complete this task.

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It's like maybe the task is flawed. [MUSIC PLAYING]