Where Can You Get Your Weight Loss Motivation?
October 29, 2009 by
Filed under Motivation For Weight Loss
With all the advertisements and urges that bombard us every day it is very difficult to find and maintain our weight loss motivation. There are many things we can do to motivate ourselves to lose weight. Let’s look at a few of those things.
The first thing to do to find motivation in anything is to set goals. This is also true if you want to lose weight.
The most effective goals are the ones that are tangible, that provide you something tangible when you accomplish them.
To find your weight loss motivation I suggest that you decide on something that you’re going to buy for yourself or do for yourself when you’ve accomplished your weight loss goals. This could be a new dress, a vacation at the sunny beach, a new beautiful fashion accessory; anything that will motivate you to put in effort and remain determined to accomplish your weight loss goals.
The next advice I’ll give you for maintaining your weight loss motivation is to garner support from your friends and family.
Support is very important during those days when you are feeling weak or when circumstances are pressing down on you and you just want to eat the first thing you can lay your hands on.
People to support you can also celebrate your victories with you.
A further word of advice to find your motivation for weight loss is to believe in yourself that you can do it. If you do not believe in yourself, who will? Starting out with anything without the belief that you can actually do it is completely self-defeating.
The last word of advice I want to give you in terms of finding your weight loss motivation is to create an image of the slimmer you in your imagination.
See how you will look and experience the feelings of how you will feel when you fit into that sexy number that is now two sizes too small. Constantly keep these images in your mind.
To find your weight loss motivation you need to play a few little mind tricks on yourself, get the support from people around you, and set goals with a prize at the end.
Tisha Diaz
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Where do you get your weight loss motivation?
Ok, so I started working out again. I go good for a while and then for some reason I lose all motivation. what keeps you going? Any good tips or advice? Website maybe? I would love some help.
Seeing progress keeps me going.
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go kickboxing its well good shit
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Take a picture of yourself with only your shorts on.
Then develop the picture and look at it every morning.
As you progress loosing weight, take more pictures of yourself, get them developed (wear the same clothes if possible) and compare them to the original picture.
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The mirror. Can’t rely on the scales b/c muscle weighs more than fat. Also, the feeling of being energized after a workout.
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It would help to change the way you THINK. Do a mental cleanse…in other words…feed your mind with healthy positive info and beyond your control, your yearning for nasty foods will decline…I’ve done it and it happened to me…I didn’t do the mental cleanse for this purpose but it was a side benefit.
The mental cleanse involves turning off the radio, TV, closing the newspapers, stop listening to negative people WHILE engaging in new and positive/uplifting thoughts and company for AT LEAST 21 days…Block out most of what you tend to see in everyday life because 75% of it is negative. This eliminates the junk that we ‘carry around’ with us each and every day and gradually you’ll notice a change in the things you like and what you choose to get involved in as well as what you eat…I don’t totally understand how this works but it does.
With respect to losing weight, your drive to be in shape will become more natural as opposed to something you have to force yourself to do.
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For more weight loss info you can check out http://www.weight-here-please.com
I realized exactly how bad some food is for you (looked at labels closely, sugar, fat, and sodium content) and I usually get really excited when I put on a smaller size than I wore two months ago.
Also, complements from people I haven’t seen in a while (those are great!)
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I just look at fat people and i think how i never want to look like that.
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my brain
Internal motivation is the best for me. I keep progress of my program through pictures, vital measurements (e.g. waist and arm size), weight, and body fat %.
Try going to http://www.bodyforlife.com – they may have a program that helps you.
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I have Prom May 12 and my dress is a little tight. I guess you could say that Prom is my motivation.
I had a upset stomache and wasn’t eating much for a day and that seemed to help the number on the scale go down. I’m not saying that you should wish you had a upset stomache though.
I find myself eating when I am bored sometimes. That doesn’t help much.
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