Have you made any new year’s resolutions for 2016? There’s a good chance that it’s either already been broken or is going to be ruined as we head into the first weekend after people have gone back to work. Were you finally going to get to the gym and exercise for real this time? Is there an addiction that you were either going to slow down on or kick to the curb? Here are 5 of the most common new year’s resolutions that have already been nixed.
5. Exercising
5. Exercising
Perhaps the most obvious resolution that’s been busted is going to the gym. Everybody wants to believe that this is the year they’ll finally get in shape. They’ll pay whatever amount it is to join their local gym, show up for the first week, and never head back until next year when they have to renew their membership. Everybody else that actually keeps in shape — it’s safe to go back now.
4. Quit Smoking
4. Quit Smoking
It’s already an ugly habit to begin with, but there’s an estimated one billion people around the world that do it. As people are counting down to the new year and six beers in, they huddle around their cold buddies outside in the frigid temperatures. They swear that this will be their last cigarette. The true test is trying to make it through that first full week back to work.
3. Eating Better
3. Eating Better
Lots of us eat like crap toward the end of the year. Think about it — Halloween promotes candy, Thanksgiving promotes heavy eating with turkey and stuffing, and Christmas brings us a great mix of the two. It’s easy to think about eating more fruits and vegetables, but it’s a lot harder to keep that trend when pizza, frozen meals, and restaurants are so much simpler. Unlike fresh produce, they don’t go bad.
2. Gambling
2. Gambling
Not limited to gambling on sports around the Las Vegas area or internationally, some people like spending lots of their time and money on local casinos until they realize they’ll never win on slot machines and blackjack. With so many US states participating in Powerball, lots of people will break this resolution with the lottery reaching record amounts in the new year.
1. Stop Watching Porn
1. Stop Watching Porn
Perhaps one of the hardest habits to kick is one that we don’t want to publicly admit. Watching pornography is one of the biggest production killers, and it’s coming so much easier to waste time with popular tube sites creating mobile access. For those that wanted to completely nix watching fictionalized fornication, a lot of you have probably already rubbed one out by this point.
