Need help sticking with your New Year's resolution to lose weight and improve your well-being?

The Cranston YMCA might be able to give a hand.

Hundreds of people join the Y every January in the hopes of making good on their promises, but by February, "many of them have lost their motivation," the YMCA said in a release. "This phenomenon is seen at health and fitness centers throughout the country."

This year, the Y is offering a free wellness consultation and three free supervised workouts designed to help you get — and stay — on track.

“Y Navigators are trained to guide members wherever they are at in the change process--not ready, getting ready, or ready to make a behavior change. The program is uniquely designed for those ready to make a behavior change as well as those getting ready and not ready," said Dr. James Prochaska, a professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island and founder of Pro-Change Behavior Systems. He helped the Y develop some of the new strategies.

Wellness consultants called "navigators" work with people to design the best workout strategy. It's not just to lose weight. Each strategy is unique to the individual to encourage behavior change and new healthy habits even for people who aren't quite ready to make the commitment.

Sometimes that helping hand is the difference.

For more information about the YMCA, visit www.ymcagreaterprovidence.org.