Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Is this the year you promised yourself you are going to keep your resolution? It seems like this is the time of the year where people make a 
resolution to lose weight, exercise more, eat healthy, follow a budget to eliminate debt, live simple, make more time for “me”…well…you get the picture.
For many people, the year will start out well but they will quickly fall back into their old habits and give up on positive life changes. Change, however, requires hard work and determination and the VC/UHV Library has some resources that can help.
If your New Year’s resolution is to lose weight or exercise more, check out one of these books:
- The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy and Live Longer by Harvey Simon
- Mayo Clinic Fitness for Everybody
- Leslie Sansone’s Eat Smart, Walk Strong: The Secrets to Effortless Weight Loss by Leslie Sansone
- Mayo Clinic on Healthy Weight
- Super Fitness for Sports, Conditioning and Health by Thomas Fahey
- The Abs Diet Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan: The Exercise Program to Flatten Your Belly, Reshape Your Body and Give you Abs for Life by David Zinczenko
If your New Year’s resolution is to eat healthy, try one of these books:
- Low-Calorie Cookbook: More than 200 Delicious Recipes for Healthy Eating
- The New American Heart Association Cookbook
- Healthy Heart Cookbook
- American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: Heart-Healthy, Easy-To-Make Recipes that Taste Great
- The Healthy College Cookbook: Quick, Cheap, Easy by Alexandra Nimetz (e-book)
If your New Year’s resolution is to follow a budget, try one of these books:
- Be Thrifty: How to Live Better with Less
- 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
- Suddenly Frugal: How to Live Happier & Healthier for Less by Leah Ingram
- Don’t Spend Your Raise: And 59 Other Money Rules You Can’t Afford to Break by Dara Duguay (e-book)
If your New Year’s Resolution involves living simple, check out one of these books:
- Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin
- Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living by Tsh Oxenreider
- The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living by Janet Luhrs
- The Lilypad List: 7 Steps to the Simple Life by Marian Van Eyk McCain
If your New Year’s resolution is to have more “me” time, try reading one of these books:
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
This is just a small selection of the books we have available on these topics, and many more, to help you achieve your New Year’s resolution. Just Ask A Librarian and we’ll help you find the book you want.
