New year’s resolutions: 11 ways to get fit, lose weight or get healthy in 2017

It’s the number one resolution made by Brits every year.

(Illustration: Liberty Antonia Sadler for Metro.co.uk)

Every year, the top two New Year’s resolutions made are to 1) to get fit, and 2) to lose weight.

If either of those is on your to-do list, we have some ways to make it easier.

1 Make exercise (or just movement) a habit

There’s a widely held belief that it takes 21 days (some say 28) to form a habit. It stems from a book plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz wrote in 1960 in which he wrote that it takes a minimum of 21 days to make a change in one’s life, based on his study of how long it took an amputee to get used to the loss of a limb, or to feel comfortable with the new nose they see in the mirror.

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