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Losing Weight and Getting Fit and Healthy: 4 Great Tips to Keep You Motivated!
Jul 29Despite knowing you want to lose weight, get a healthy body and maintain it, it can be hard to feel consistently motivated to lose weight and actually keep it off indefinitely. We all know that fad diets don’t work, but we’re not so good at sticking to effective weight loss plans that we know will ultimately work – IF we stick to it.
The following techniques will give you the tools you need to understand how to keep motivated to lose weight from now on.
Build Evidence against Yourself
One way to build up your inner drive to make life changing shifts and get your weight under control is to collect evidence to build a case against yourself for losing weight. The purpose behind this is to prove the point to yourself that that you desperately need to lose some weight, and you can accomplish that by using photographs.
Collect a set of pictures of yourself as you currently are, and then find pictures of yourself from years past. Get together as many images as possible that feature you at various different weights and times in your life. Then line them up on a table in order of time or glue them onto a paper or poster board.
It is rather difficult to deny that you have gained weight when you are staring at yourself from an outside perspective. Do you represent the person you know you are inside? Do you really want to go back to the days of being healthy and thin?
Don’t Just Focus On The Scale
When you’re trying to drop weight it become easy to focus on the scale and forget about everything else. A more balanced approach to get the scale moving by setting fitness goals that have nothing to do with weight. For example, sign up for an upcoming 10k event and plan to walk it. Additional goals may be to work up to doing a certain number of chin ups, sit ups, or push ups. You could even try to build up to doing push ups on your fingertips.
You can train to run if the race is far enough away and you can realistically get into the physical condition to handle it. The worst thing you can do is set yourself up for disappointment with unrealistic goals, so make sure it is achievable. Doing so will ensure you maintain your motivation to lose weight in an effective manner.
Awaken your Competitive Spirit
Get some friends on board and come up with a friendly competition. Everyone can chip in to get a cool reward that goes to the winner.
If its hard for you to find people in real life to do this there are many online weight loss forums that often have a lot of competitions happening on a regular basis.
Keep Incentives In Front Of You
Is there is a particular type of clothing that you would really love to put on? Perhaps it’s a smaller sundress with light sandals or a pair of short shorts without cellulite and fat jiggling out underneath. Regardless of what it is, buy it in the size you ultimately want to get to hang it up in a place where you will see it every day.
You can also try it on from time to time for a visual reminder of how much progress you are making!
Realize that most of these techniques for getting motivated to lose weight involve forward thinking. You take action now because you desire something better for yourself in the future, rather than focusing on what you have to give up now.
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