Did you know New Year's resolutions were a Protestant invention to promote remorse over "vice"? Up to 1950s, many people in English-majority nations tended to do resolutions about being better Christians. Other countries did not recognise NY resolutionshttps://othersociologist.com/2014/01/02/sociology-new-years-resolutions/ …
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Health is the big winner here, too. Weight loss is probably the top resolution.
I see this is especially gendered. Women and femmes especially likely to feel a need to publicise weight loss as a resolution. I've already seen a few of these proclamations on my personal feeds and of course all over the media.
