How to Stay Motivated for Weight Loss Week after Week
Whenever you start a new diet, you are usually very upbeat, focused, positive and eager to get on track, lose weight, and get fit. But as the months go by and weight loss week after week becomes more challenging, it can be very difficult to stay motivated, continue exercising and make healthy eating choices. Here are some tried and true ways that you can use to stay on track with your weight loss.
Find an unflattering photo, showing you the way you were at your worst and fix it your refrigerator. It needs to be the worst picture you have of yourself, there for you to see whenever you head for the fridge to find something to eat. Each time you are about to swing the door open your heavy self will be there saying ‘Close the door and go grab an apple’ or ‘The ice-cream in the freezer will keep you looking like ME’!
Set weight loss goals and rewards for yourself and write down these goals and rewards. Things like ‘When I lose five pounds I will buy that fabulous red dress’ or ‘When I can fit back into my skinny jeans I’ll treat myself to those boots that will look great with my skinny jeans.’ Perhaps ‘When I lose thirty pounds I’m going to Florida for a vacation and I’m actually going to buy a swimsuit and go in the water.’
Begin your weight loss and enjoy the outcome of this across shorter timeframes as well as across the longer haul. Keep records of your diet progress and refer to these to enjoy the benefits of all your efforts and notice your increasing weight loss and your changing body shape week by week and over the longer time frame.
A blog can get you in touch with the world of like minded people who are trying to get into shape as you are and would love to share your experience. A blog is not only a successful way to keep you motivated and accountable but also a way to inspire others to do the same. So start up a blog today and enjoy the benefits of e-mails of support, suggestions that may help and heaps of encouragement for you to hang in there with your weight loss week by week.
The power of visual images during your weight loss week by week should never be underestimated. Visualize how you will look when you reach your gaol weight and find photos of images like this from advertisements or fashion mags. To stay focused on your healthy eating and exercise program, display these images anywhere you will see them in your bedroom or bathroom or at work as constant reminders of the final reward for all your efforts.
Read by going online or read books that detail the stories and successes of other people who have lost weight successfully. Reading about the success of others will help inspire you to keep going. After all, someday someone might be reading about your struggle with weight loss as a way to stay motivated and to stay on their diet!
Take steps to embrace life and all its opportunities while you are following your healthy eating and exercise plan. This is should see you doing different things especially in the outdoors like hiking on the weekend or biking after work. Join groups where physical activity is a feature and enroll in a Salsa class or even learn Hip Hop so that your weight loss week by week if the result of having plenty of fun!
Stay away from people who do not support your weight loss or even worse undermine this. ‘Friends’ who encourage you to eat the very foods that you know cause you to stay fat are not your friends at all and should be avoided as you continue to make progress with your weight loss week after week. Never allow invitations to fast food restaurants or suggestions of a second serve or even a first serve of high calorie meals sway you from your goal to continue losing weight and be the healthy, happy person you are inside!
