Healthy Resolutions

Who doesn't start their New Year pledging to begin a new healthier lifestyle, particularly when it comes to food? Annually, almost every one of us come up with New Year's Resolutions in an attempt to start afresh and turn over a healthy new leaf...pun intended.

Of course, this is not helped in the least by the sudden chilly assault of gym and health food advertisements encroaching upon your warm gluttonous supermarket adverts come the turn of the year. This is not tough luck; gym owners and diet food manufacturers are taking advantage of your current plight – that of being helplessly cemented to the couch  amidst one of your eating binges – to plug their vision (Sale, actually) of a ‘New You’.

These advertisements may inspire you to pen up a list of New Year’s resolutions, all designed around the vision of the quintessential ‘New You’; he\she is fit and attractive, gains pleasure from helping others and expanding his/her mind, and has an all-round pleasant time of it.

Who's to say though that the resolutions will stick? Resolutions overall are for the amibitious, and when you chalk up something beyond your own purview of the metric, chances abound that it will suffer a Titanic fate.

Will power isn't the issue. Will power is about depriving oneself, and let's face it - who likes doing that in any case? The problem: is that most people are led into unrealistic expectations, they decide that 'this' is the year and season wherein they're going to completely change everything about their diet. Which is just too hard to do.

The bottomline is thus: When making dietary changes, start small.Set a few realistic goals. In the long run, you'll have better self-esteem and more self-confidence because you'll actually stick with them. For instance, if you really want to end up healthier over the coming year, shoot for finger millet, commonly known as 'Ragi'. Soulfull, a reknowned producer of flakes, fills and more within the genre is an ideal brand to get yous started with your quest.

And whatever you do, don't skip breakfast!