If you’re having trouble keeping on track with New Year’s resolutions around healthier eating habits, a Saskatchewan dietitian has some tips.

Rebecca Crozier with the Saskatchewan Health Authority says one of the simplest strategies to start with is hydration. She says water is super important, ” Water is super important. Carrying a water bottle around can be really helpful. Physically having that glass of water at every meal or having that water bottle on your desk, you’re going to see it therefore you’re going to drink it a lot more. ”

Crozier recommends avoiding fad diets and ensuring you still get the daily requirements of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in your diet. She says moderation is key. Her advice to anyone who is still struggling to make the changes they promised themselves they’d make in the New Year is – don’t give up. Crozier stresses that the more you try the more likely you’ll succeed.

Meanwhile, Nanos research in a recent poll says nearly six in ten Canadians have struggled to meet their most recent weight loss resolution which has led to feelings of hopelessness and sadness when the goal was not achieved.

The poll indicates over two in five Canadians, or 43 per cent, each say they plan on losing weight, while 44 per cent don’t plan on losing weight in 2025. Thirteen per cent were unsure. And when asked how they are planning to lose weight, 93 per cent say they will do so by changing their diet/eating better 93 per cent with 80 per cent saying they will exercise.

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1084 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between November 30th and December 4th, 2024.

The margin of error for a random survey of 1,084 Canadians is ±3.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

The research was commissioned by Felix Health and was conducted by Nanos Research.

With files from discoverWeyburn.com.