Twenty Best Weight Loss Motivation Tips (3)
Motivation Tip 11. For extra weight loss motivation, keep a diary of your thoughts and feelings as you lose weight. (A good place to keep also your list of reasons to lose weight. See Motivation Tip 1). At the start of the day quickly note down your intentions for the day, how you plan to eat healthily, what exercise you plan to take, what strategies you need to adopt for particular events coming up that day. In the evening, review how your day went. Don't berate yourself for any of the choices you made, see only what you learned from them. How did you feel after you made your choice? Was it still worth it? (Yes, sometimes double chocolate chip ice-cream is worth the calories). What would you do differently next time something similar comes up? (Maybe you just eat a little less tomorrow)
Motivation Tip 12. Listen to uplifting music. Put together a collection of all the music you love that makes you feel great about yourself and the world. Play your tracks whenever you need to feel good about your own strength to succeed in your weight loss efforts and the great slim future you have ahead of you.
Motivation Tip 13. Sometimes you need to get real about your fat and stop hiding behind excuses. Just decide for once and for all that you have had enough of being fat and you are going to do something about it. Take responsibility for your own choices. Look at what has made you fat and how you have let this happen to yourself. A bit harsh from the weight loss motivation team? Easier to make excuses? No! Far, far harder to stay as you are, unhealthy and unhappy with your shape.
Motivation Tip 14. Success builds on success. Don't get so fanatical from day 1 that you fail on day 10 swearing never to follow a diet and exercise program again. Instead make a few small healthy changes at a time, see the effects, add a few more. This is the way lifestyle habits are changed, not superhuman willpower and gritting of teeth.
Motivation Tip 15. Your body works in a million miraculous ways. Somewhere along the way you have forgotten what all babies know - how to eat when you are hungry and stop when your hunger is satisfied. Even young children when confronted with tables full of food including all the sweets and snacks they could want end up eating a balanced healthy diet. All it takes is for you to re-learn your own special inbuilt mechanisms. This really could be as simple as listening to your body's true hunger signals and need for movement. This is something everyone can do.
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