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Thursday
Jan152009

New Year's Resolutions to Lose Weight: Why So Hard To Keep?

Why is it so hard to keep our new year’s resolutions to lose weight? I explore this question in this episode in which I also take a tour through the various schools of psychology and show how each one would explain why people have trouble keeping promises to lose weight (or stay out of debt, or stop smoking).

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