Well, it's that time of year again. The new year is here and that means that it's time to start picking out our New Year's resolutions. Most people will pick something that has to do with weight loss, statistically, and mass crowds of people will make their way to their local gym to buy a membership that they will have stopped using in March. I have been one of these people for as long as I could remember.

I've always been on the chubby side and growing up the doctors have always told me I need to lose weight. The last few years I have set the goal that I was going to run a 5K, but that has never happened. I've bought a gym membership and I only seldom use it much like everyone else who owns a gym membership. Losing weight, gaining weight, Weight Watchers, food tracking apps, I've done it all, and so have thousands of other people.

The continual cycle of losing and gaining weight is damaging to a person's self esteem, and I refuse to be part of it any longer. When I weighed a lot I was unhappy because I thought I needed to lose more weight, and when I lost a good amount of weight I was still unhappy because I thought I needed to lose more. Instead I'm breaking the cycle of losing weight. Why do I have to constantly believe that I need to be improved? I'm a bright young woman who has a good head on her shoulders, so why do I need to stress myself out thinking I need to be thin to be happy?

This is a train of thought that people need to subscribe to. The whole mentality behind losing weight as a New Year's Resolution is that the way you are right now is not good enough. Weight should not determine your worth as a person, so your resolution should not revolve around such a toxic idea. Subscribe to the notion that you should be bettering yourself mentally and building yourself up as a person. If they only thing you can think of improving has to do with your physical form, then you need to take a step back and come up with a back up resolution when the initial one makes you unhappy.