Planning on making a new year's resolution to lose weight and get into shape? If you are like the majority of the population, you will tell yourself that you will eat better and exercise more. If that's all you intend to do, like most people you will fail within two weeks.

Don't you wish you could capture the will and determination you sometimes have to lose weight and get into shape? Unfortunately, the little voice inside our head is not always helpful. Along with the positive messages and visualizations of a slimmer healthier person, you are also tempted by the comfort and satisfaction that your favorite foods provide, albeit only for a moment.

You may want to try a new trend that is helping dieters get lean and stay that way, by creating a website dedicated to your health. Your website could include all your positive thoughts, meal plans, and strategies for losing weight. If and when you are tempted to slip into your old habits, you can visit your website to remind yourself why you need to stick to your new lifestyle. Just the act of creating the website will have a positive effect because it will help entrench all the reasons you want to be healthy.

The website can be a place where you post pictures of yourself at a time when you were at your biggest, to give yourself motivation not to return to that form. You could also upload pictures of yourself when you may have been slim years ago, or images of someone you would like to look like.

Your website is a great place to keep track of your training schedule. You can create an exercise plan and document your progress daily. It is also recommended to create a page on the website that will be your journal where you can enter everything that happens in your life on a daily basis.

Your personal website is a way that people close to you can keep track of your progress even if they live across the world. If you prefer the website remain for yourself only it can be password protected. The website or online journal can be particularly useful if you travel a lot. You can post entries from any computer no matter where you are. You can also review the website for motivation, meal ideas, exercise routines, or to update your journal.

Making a personal website requires no technical skills and is as easy as filling in forms and clicking on a few buttons. You can use a