As Wagga bids good riddance to 2020, residents are looking forward to what they would like to achieve in the new year.
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Kelly Garlick said her New Year's resolution is to shed the coronavirus kilos that she has put on during the pandemic.
Mrs Garlick admitted she had succumbed to the temptation of tea and biscuits throughout this year and was determined to work it off in 2021.
She has already bought a treadmill and a Fitbit with a view to getting back to her old weight.
"Since lockdown I've been working from home and I've put on a few extra kilos, so my new Year's resolution is to lose five kilos," Mrs Garlick said.
"I was just sitting at home, and when you get bored you eat. You go up, have a cup of tea, have a biscuit, have another biscuit."
New Year's resolutioners can draw inspiration from 21-year-old Deagan Newell, who has lost a whopping 38 kilograms since lockdown.
Mr Newell started the year at around 117 kilograms, but through a vegetable-based diet and daily walks he has slimmed down to just 79 kilograms.
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Mr Newell said that he had nothing better to do during lockdown, and so had decided to take advantage of the free time to turn his life around.
"I was just bored, and I thought it would be good not to be the fat guy in the room," Mr Newell said.
"Also looking good, looking healthy, feeling good, feeling healthy - these have all come along the way."
He says he actually prefers the healthy lifestyle he now lives, having lost the craving for junk food and energy drinks that he used to have.
Even today he is technically four kilograms overweight, but says he feels fitter and healthier than he has ever been in his entire life.
He says the changes came faster than he anticipated, so much so that many people can hardly recognise post-lockdown Deagan.
"Due to COVID I haven't seen many people. There's a lady I haven't seen since the beginning of the year who I ran into a month or two ago," Mr Newell said.
"She was blown away. She said she barely recognised me, which I saw as quite a compliment."
Melbourne expat Carole Broughton said she too had resolved to lose weight and also to quit city life altogether.
Mrs Broughton had been working in a cramped home office in Melbourne, but plans to move to Bendigo to live a simpler, more fulfilled life in the countryside.
"We've already started our plan. We've put the house on the market, sold it, and are moving to the country," Mrs Broughton said.
"Live life to the max, that's my New Year's resolution, because life is short and you don't know what's around the corner."