Do people still make New Year resolutions?

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Do people still make New Year's resolutions and do they stick to them?

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00:00 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

00:08 Because I never end up keeping them, so I don't bother.

00:12 Well, you like to start the new year on a positive note.

00:16 And then when it's cold, you want chocolate and cake,

00:19 not lettuce and tomatoes.

00:22 I've made them in the past, and I've never kept them.

00:25 So it's been a waste of time.

00:27 And at my age, I've learned, don't bother.

00:31 Well, I've tried.

00:32 I mean, I've tried to lose weight.

00:34 I've tried to keep fit.

00:35 I've tried to stop going for a pint in the pub,

00:38 that sort of thing.

00:39 And it never worked.

00:41 And I spent a lot of time in the Royal Navy,

00:44 where you couldn't always keep to the promises

00:49 you made yourself.

00:51 I don't really make resolutions anymore,

00:53 because then you get disappointed if you don't.

00:56 It can be a bit like unachievable and too much

01:01 pressure.

01:02 So I tend to just--

01:05 yeah, not.

01:08 I think if you're going to do a resolution,

01:10 you don't need a special day.

01:11 You should do it on the day that you need to do it.

01:13 No, I think if you need to change something,

01:15 you should change it when you need to change it.

01:18 Sometimes, but I always know that I'm not going to make it.

01:23 I think because you're comfortable in the way you are.

01:26 Well, you are comfortable in the way you are.

01:27 I think you'd like to be more comfortable in the way

01:30 you'd like to be.

01:31 But I just think it's hard work trying to do that.

01:35 I've done it before.

01:36 I lost four stone in eight months one time,

01:40 doing 1,000 calories, eat anything you like.

01:43 And you feel just amazing.

01:45 But I think you get to sort of say, yeah,

01:48 I'm going to do it today.

01:49 But then it slips up, and then you

01:51 eat something that you know you're not going to.

01:55 So you just give up.

01:57 No, I think it's really weird.

01:58 It's psychological, most definitely.

02:00 It's definitely psychological.

02:02 Not normally, no.

02:05 Well, because it's hard to keep them.

02:07 Because the only one I would make is to lose weight,

02:10 and it doesn't always work.

02:13 *sniff*

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