Once again another year has come and gone and in front of us is a blank slate. Again, we are free to make New Year's Resolutions that half of us will never follow through with. For the ninth year in a row, I had said I would finally get abs. I usually last a good week into January before I break and then occasionally try throughout the year. Looking down at my stomach now, I see the results of sugar addiction, late-night dates with carbs, and anxiety and stress-eating from college.

2018 was the year I got a personal trainer with the goal to actually get abs. Obviously, I didn't get abs, but I got something better: knowledge and understanding. We all put such pressure when the New Year comes around and throughout the year we are determined to get that "summer body" or get "hot." We put our focus on the outside instead of looking at the inside. No wonder we never actually achieve our fitness goals. We are too focused on looking a certain way to fit into the mold we have restricted us to rather than working towards a healthy lifestyle.