Is your resolution to lose weight? You can take a page from the country stars

If you’re one of the 45 percent of Americans who usually make New Year’s resolutions, by the time you read this, about a quarter of us have already slipped up. By the time we reach December, the percentage of folks who successfully achieved the goals they set up this month dwindles down to single digits — 8 percent.

The No. 1 resolution remains to lose weight. You can do it the conventional way like Miranda Lambert and Trisha Yearwood have recently by exercising more and eating less. It was hard for Miranda to part with her beloved Cheetos’s but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. Carrie Underwood sticks to a Vegan diet. For Tim McGraw, beef is what’s NOT for dinner and Kenny Chesney attributes his fitness success to one “cheat” day a week. This among copious amounts of weight lifting, truck tire tossing and cardio.

For Reba McEntire, the key to the 58-year-old’s youthful appearance is getting her drink on. Not that kind — the juice kind. Reba recently told Country Weekly it’s part of her daily routine. “The reason it’s so important is because your digestive system needs a break and it doesn’t have to digest the juice. You need one meal a day that is liquid.”

Not sure if that’s the reason Blake Shelton has stuck to the same tried and true goals for the past two decades. In behind-the-scenes footage from a recent USO Show Troupe Choir event in New York City last month, Blake revealed his 20-year-old resolutions: to clean up his language and drink less.

Obviously, he’s not been too successful, and in the footage, was quick to assure fans his resolutions never last long. Which is why wife Miranda admits she sometimes “unfollows” him on Twitter due to his drunken tweets.

Me? I make resolutions, but have discovered if I don’t say them out loud, nobody knows I haven’t reached them but me. Right. Perhaps we could all take a suggestion from Brad Paisley — a man who writes country songs about alcohol, but has never taken a drink in his life — who tweeted this post Dec. 31. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”

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