Looking at fitness over a year’s block of time is too broad for those just looking to get in shape. Break your fitness into smaller blocks of time. If you start today, you have exactly 3 weeks to lose 3 pounds. This is very doable. If you can create a calorie deficit of 500 calories a day against your current average consumption, you’ll have made your real resolution come true and have a ton of momentum headed into January.

3 pounds is a very realistic goal, but certainly a worthy accomplishment should you make it happen.  Try mixing three tried and true methods throughout your week to get the job done:

• Eat less calories by eating less food (ie skip the bed time snack)
• Eat less calories by substituting healthier options (ie water for soda)
• Burn more calories by becoming more active (ie walk a mile)

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Post from: EveryJoe

Make a New Year’s Resolution in December

Why? Well, we don’t want to be like those soon-to-be dropouts at the gym who take our slot in spinning class and create treadmill traffic jams for the first three weeks of January.  You know, the kind of people who harbor big “I’m joining the gym and going everyday” plans, spawned by holiday overeating and a few too many trips to the champagne fountain on NYE.

Because we don’t aspire to be like them, we’ve set 2008 goals well within our reach, such as the following: 

1. To keep eating chocolate and pastry regularly, and then going to the gym daily to work it off. This is OK because we aren’t fitness lollygaggers. We. Are. Hard. Core. (Ooh, I was thisclose to typing that last part with a straight face!)

2. To keep being a cocky sports fan with a bias, evident to the careful observer, in favor of New England teams.

3. To increase readership. We’ll need some help on this one but we know you heart this bloggerette or else you wouldn’t be reading this! Digg, Stumble Upon, and Bark Us Up, baby, and we’ll all be one big Gossip on Sports family.

4. To branch out into other sports on this blog. Hockey, soccer, and cricket, where’s the dish when we need it? We’ll make an effort to make fun of/find the silliness in/make witty observations about the goings-on in other sports. That is, until baseball season, during which we’ll blog constantly about the Red Sox. Just kidding! Not really . . .

5. To incorporate supermodels, Brazilian and otherwise, into our blog posts as often as possible. After all, we had a pretty good run with that!

So there you have our own brand of wishful thinking set in 2008. Perhaps you noticed that we didn’t resolve to be nicer. As we noted before the holidays, it’s unnecessary because we’re in tight with Santa’s elves. Besides, this blog would be booooring if we ventured into good girl territory.

Pardon us while we skip to the gym to do battle with the “What’s an elliptical?” and “Ooh, I did four sit-ups and my abs hurt” newbies.

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New Year’s Resolutions

It’s New Year’s Resolution time! And in 2008, yours truly is aiming higher than a pre-rehab Lindsay Lohan.

The goal: To have dinner with our favorite re-signed free agents, Red Sox players Curt Schilling and Mike Lowell. Significant others included, natch.

The reason: Schilling is the man behind the Legendary Bloody Sock of 2004, a highlight in Red Sox lore. Lowell was the 2007 World Series MVP. And both proved to Beantown that a fatter paycheck wasn’t enough to lure them to another team. 

The setting: The Capital Grille, a high-end steakhouse on Newbury Street in Boston. My hubby and I dine there whenever we’re in town for a Sox game, so it’s only fitting. And what ballplayer doesn’t love a nice filet mignon? We’ll even pick up the tab!

Aw heck, we’ll provide the entertainment, too. We’ll hire these guys to swing by and perform a special song (1m, 37s) for the two guests of honor:

In truth, we’d settle for a round of Happy Meals at McDonald’s with our Sox heroes. Or even a drivethrough coffee run at Dunkin’ Donuts.

Do you think if we pinged Curt Schilling over at his 38 Pitches blog, he’d email us and say, “Heck ya, sweetcheeks! Make the reservation!”?

OK, maybe that’s a stretch. He probably wouldn’t call us “sweetcheeks.” But you never know . . .

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Psst . . . that was our Week 5 Project Blog entry. The challenge was to blog about a goal we have for 2008. Like our take on the theme? Cast your rah-rah Gossip on Sports vote here! Leave a comment there for your chance at this week’s prize.

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Big (Dinner) Plans for 2008