Just curious to hear your new year resolutions?

I, personally, just have one: to quit smoking.

Man I've said that tons of times, i think it should be its own verb.

Good luck on quitting smoking. I quit almost 3 months ago. 25 Sept. I woke up one day, didn't have any smokes and just decided not to buy any and see how it goes. Lo and behold, smoke-free so far. I had smoked for 14 years. I really don't have any resolutions as of yet.

hmmmmm...

i think i need to resolve to make more and better goals ;)

...no, i haven't thought about it yet.

Lose weight(like a lot of people). I lost about 15 lbs last year in about 6 weeks then got lazy. I am 5'6" and 155 lbs now. I want to go down to about 140 lbs.

Immi, when you have an urge to smoke think of what Optimus Prime whould do.. :D

Back in Feb 2001 I was in NYC on vacation and while walking up a slight incline in central park I suddenly lost my breath. I was 24, a smoker, and tipping the scales at 235 lbs (5'11"). When I was 22 I cracked a vertebral disc which to this day causes some serious back pain along with some numbness down my left leg. Do to the injury, painkillers, and my new gig as a software developer, my lifestyle changed from being pretty active to extremely sedentary. So from an athletic 170lb I shot up to 235-240lb in a few years. As soon as I got back to Miami from NYC I signed up at a gym and asked a doctor friend for some advice in how I should go about losing weight. Basically he told me to forget about Meridia and all those weight loss supplement. He recommended that I start lifting weights along with low intensity cardio for 30-60min. I can't run because of my back so I became great friends with the elliptical machine they have over at the gym. After 2 months he put me on steroids to strengthen the muscles in my back area. It took me 10 months of eating right and going to the gym 6x a week but I got down to 170lb. Right now I'm about 160-165lb and I still go to the gym 4-5x a week.

What has me worried is that my girlfriend has also put on a few pounds and she is at risk of developing type 2 diabetes along with several other conditions. We've been together for nearly nine years. She's my best friend and the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. I’ve been able to get her in the gym and eating right but after two weeks she’ll be right back were she started. Honestly, I’ll love not matter what, whether she’s 105lbs or 501lbs.Thing is I'm afraid that if she doesn't lose the weight now, she'll regret it later on when she does develop health problems. I was thinking that since I still smoke I can use that as leverage to get her to trim down. So my new year’s resolutions will be to quit smoking if she agrees to make an effort to lose some weight. I figure it'll keep us focused on the goal because not only are we doing it for ourselves, but we are also doing it for the person we love.

So what do you guys think? Is it worth a shot?

Originally posted by Superfan
I was thinking that since I still smoke I can use that as leverage to get her to trim down.

So what do you guys think? Is it worth a shot?

that's a terrific story, and a bloody good idea... it's warming, espeically at this time of year, to read sincere statements which declare certain authentic intangeables of life (kinda like true love, and not caring about someone's weight because of how they look).

but, i just had to giggle at you using your cigarette smoking as leverage on her eating and excersize... i wonder if that would work, developping a nasty heroin habit to get my parents to go to the gym a few times per week ;)

Keech, I would stay away from opiates. I was on vicodins for about 3 months and skipping a day get you feeling like ass chunks. It took about 2 weeks of sleepless nights to get over it. Never again will I touch any opiate based drug. That's the reason I haven't had back surgery to fuse the disc. I'll wait a few more years until there is a less invasive procedure to fix the problem.

Just start start going out with strippers and tell them you're thinking of getting into porn. That'll get'em :)

Originally posted by Superfan
I was on vicodins for about 3 months and skipping a day get you feeling like ass chunks. Never again will I touch any opiate based drug.

i hear ya... i had morphine for my day surgery follow up operation on my shoulder, to remove the screw that was holding my clavicle and scapula together after an AC joint reconstruction (and then some).

when i woke up in the wheelchair, i had to relieve myself somethin' awful. the bathroom was a good 10' away...
after that restful a sleep, i felt (honestly) like a million bucks. i popped up out of the chair, went to the bathroom... and about half way through the procedure, i could feel my quads just start to quiver, and my knees get weak.

i hurried, and made it close enough to the chair that i fell foward into it when i collapsed. opiates suck, indeed.

save more money
stay in the gym

Originally posted by mikeb
stay in the gym

weight bench + towel = not too uncomfortable a bed for those late night mid workout naps :D

live to see next xmas.

To get re-employed and buy another RX-8 to replace the one I had to return when I got laid off.

quitting smoking was easy a few years ago after watching my Mother In Law pass after 2 years of being stricken with cancer. hey klegg i hear that. i hope live to see next Christmas and maybe still be married.

I quit smoking about 15 years ago, after being a 1.5-pack-per-day smoker. I gradually weaned myself onto milder and milder ciggies, then eventually went cold turkey. Cleaned out all my ashtrays and filled then with trail mix to get over the oral fixation, and after a week I wasn't missing the cigs at all.

Best of luck to anyone quitting - you'll be glad you did! :)

Originally posted by eccles
I quit smoking about 15 years ago, after being a 1.5-pack-per-day smoker. I gradually weaned myself onto milder and milder ciggies, then eventually went cold turkey. Cleaned out all my ashtrays and filled then with trail mix to get over the oral fixation, and after a week I wasn't missing the cigs at all.

Best of luck to anyone quitting - you'll be glad you did! :)

weaning at least for me didnt work. cold turkey, no patches was the only way to go. i had only been smoking a pack a day for 10 years not 30 or 40, then it probably would have been harder to quit.