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Hi, and welcome back to Unite Therapy.

I am the host, Kat, and I am so glad you're here, and I'm so glad we made it.

It is the final week of 2020. I'm going to share some thoughts about how to move through

2020 into 2021 on couch talks on Wednesday, but I want to talk about New Year's resolutions today.

A lot of us are ramping up to finally press a start button on some goals and desires we've

been waiting to work towards.

And statistically, at the same time, 90% of New Year resolutions don't stick.

And the most popular resolutions all revolve around dieting, which I think most of us

will be like, oh yeah, that sounds about right.

So for the sake of not wasting your own time, I'm going to invite you to try something a little

bit different with me this year. And I have my friend Crystal on today to talk about dieting

and why dieting doesn't work and why at the same time we keep trying it anyway every year. And I'm really excited

for her to be on. She's awesome. She's been on the show before. But first, I want to talk

generally about why the resolutions we keep or we keep setting don't work. I have found two

consistent problems. One of the problems is how freaking big they are. One thing that resolutions

usually have in common is that they are things that take months to really obtain, like

losing 50 pounds or running a marathon. So you'll essentially be losing at something for months

until you finally win. And then what? After you get that thing, does life go back to normal?

Are you then allowed to start eating donuts

again or do you now spend your free time watching dog tic talks instead of running like it's something

that we work towards and we work towards and we work towards and then we get it and then like okay

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