How to Stay Motivated and Lose Weight

Many times we start on an weight loss program to fall off because we lose the drive and motivation to continue. To keep the motivation to stick with your weight loss program follow these simple tips.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Keep Your Motivation Before You.
   What motivated you to lose weight? If it is truly your motivation that is deep within you then you have a source to continue when times get tough. Times will get tough. Even if the motivation is from without and you internalize it then you will be successful with your weight loss program. Whatever your motivation is continue to remind yourself and keep your motivation before you.

2. Visualize Your Success.
   If you believe you will be successful and visualize the outcome you will. Knowing you will be successful and visualizing what you will be like upon achieving the success your visualization will help you maintain your motivation.

3. Set Realistic Weight Loss Goals.
   One of the biggest reasons we do not stick with our weight loss program is that we set unrealistic goals. When we fail to achieve them or seem to be off track we just give up. To help us stay motivated we need to achieve some success. That is why your initial weight loss goals need simple and very achievable. For healthy weight loss you should not expect to loss more than 1-2 pounds a week. Set small achievable goals.

4. Understand the Weight Loss Process.
   Initially we loss weight easily because we lose water weight and whatever we are doing to promote a calorie deficit is more than we were doing before we started our weight loss program. After an initial loss we may slow down or gain a pound or two. This is normal. If you understand the weight loss process this will not alarm you and you can stay motivated to continue. When we do not know we think we are wasting time and lose motivation then quit. The bible says, "My People Perish for lack of Knowledge." Understanding the process keeps us focused.

5. Reward Yourself.
   As you achieve small goals reward yourself for the little successes that will keep you motivated for the big success. Motivation and success are like momentum. Once the ball is rolling and it keeps going whichever way it is going. It is tough to change momentum. Therefore as we reward ourselves for little successes along the way we create momentum to achieve our big goal.

6. Have a Weight Loss Buddy.
   A buddy will be there to encourage you when you need encouragement. They will rebuke you when you need to be rebuked. But, mainly they are there to motivate you and keep your eye on your goal and your motivation before you. It is best if your weight loss buddy is going through the process with you and you motivate and encourage each other.

Resources

• Manage Healthy Weight Loss
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[Merriment]

on 4/28/2009 These are some very helpful suggestions to stay motivated while working on weight loss goals.