New Year, Real Goals: How You Are Going To Use Body Composition Metrics To Avoid The Resolution Trap

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It’s the time of year where you’re planning your new identity for the next 12 months, creating your mood boards and setting internal laws. But did you know that 80% of new year's resolutions fail by February? The most common reason why is due to the unrealistic expectations you are setting yourself. You wouldn’t put a baby in a pool and expect it to swim 5 lengths so you shouldn't expect that your new gym membership will result in you going 5 times a week. Incorporating goals that deliver immediate gratification support the process of motivation behind your goals to help you stick to them.

Resolution mistakes

Most people state that long term benefits are their first motivation when setting new years goals but only 31% of Brits keep their resolutions all year and we want you to be 1 of them. The New Year symbolises a fresh start and desire for a better healthier life. The key to creating goals that stick is setting multiple little habits that are easy to implement. Focus on adding good habits into your life instead of subtracting as this creates a restrictive mindset which results in a more challenging process. Most popular resolutions are to engage in more exercise and improve fitness, this should start as religiously attending 1 workout class a week, drinking 3 litres of water and aiming for above 7k steps a day. It takes on average 66 days to build a habit which is around 9 weeks. Once these have formed into your weekly routine and become natural you can start to add extra sessions and adapt your diet.

mybvi

Mybvi is a perfect tool to support your new years resolutions as you can use the app to visualise your progress. Body composition is the best way to see whether your body is actually changing from the work you’ve been putting in. You may feel like your ultimate goal is to drop the number on the scales, but that can’t tell you how many inches you’ve taken off your waist or how your body fat has decreased. Exercising supports muscle growth and muscle mass adds to your total weight but it's the good weight not the bad kind, so you need something more accurate to really show your progress. Habit trackers are built into mybvi where you can log your daily water intake, daily steps, photo journal and a fasting timer. 

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Final Thoughts: From resolution to results

Reframe New Year in your mind as a starting point and not a deadline to cut out all things bad in your life. Once you change the mindsets of your goals they become easier to manage and adaptable to your lifestyle instead of laws. The mybvi app will keep you focused on what really matters for your health which is your body composition. Scanning regularly through the app will help you create a habit of reviewing your progress and rewarding yourself for how far you have come. We encourage you to strive for self improvement but don’t get caught up in setting unrealistic standards for yourself as this leads to guilt and even further setbacks. We hope mybvi will support you throughout 2026.

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Hutcheson, S. (2024, December 28). Framing New Year’s resolutions: Lessons from science and leadership. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotthutcheson/2024/12/28/framing-new-years-resolutions-lessons-from-science-and-leadership/

Oakham School. (2025, January 3). The psychology of New Year’s resolutions. https://www.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/news-events/blog/the-psychology-of-new-years-resolutions

Rackham, A. (2023, July 15). Why do people always wait until January to get fit? BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67559290

Scientific American. (n.d.). How long does it really take to form a habit? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-does-it-really-take-to-form-a-habit/

Yale School of Management. (2025). The power of intrinsic motivation: Turning New Year’s resolutions into results. Yale School of Management. https://som.yale.edu/story/2025/power-intrinsic-motivation-turning-new-years-resolutions-results