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Ten Steps to a Healthy New Year

By Shereen Jegtvig, About.com

Updated October 13, 2008

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The Second Step - Setting Goals

The second step is to set goals. Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to be able to run up and down your stairway without becoming winded? Do you want to reduce cholesterol or lower your blood pressure? Decide what you really want to achieve for your health and diet over the next month and over the next year.

One good goal for your first month could be to resolve to take your lunch to work four days per week for each week this month instead of eating lunch in restaurants every day. Another example of a monthly goal would be to resolve to walk for 30 minutes four days per week each week this month.

Write down your goals in a notebook or in the food diary you are going to create in step seven.

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