Start a New Healthy Habit

Every year, millions of people make New Year's resolutions: eat less, exercise more, cut back on sweets, establish healthy eating habits and many others. Few, if any, of these resolutions are still in place by the end of January. Once started, it's not always easy to maintain healthy habits, no matter how much we'd like to. Healthy habits and good intentions sometimes get pushed aside when we get too busy or too stressed. Sometimes maintaining a new healthy habit is harder than it seems. Fortunately, there are a few tricks that can make it easier to maintain a new healthy habit. The easiest way to stick with a new habit—as well as the first step toward making that habit a regular part of your life—is to choose wisely. If you want to make it easy to stay with a healthy habit, it must be something you enjoy, and something that fits well with who you are.

Click here for some food tips to begin a new healthy eating habit.

Born to Run

Starting a new habit can be an arduous task at times. We come up with every excuse in the book for putting off what we said we would do. Take exercising. I must have made hundreds or thousands of promises to myself to either begin a new workout program or return to a workout program.

What is a habit and what is the best way to form a habit? What does the Bible say about habits? How can forming good habits be sabotaged?

Marybeth Whalen shares her experience in how she started a new habit and how it stuck.

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Share your new habit that you have already started or plan to pursue this new year