What is the Best Way to Motivate Yourself to Lose Weight?

We often get questions concerning the best way to get motivated to lose weight. Our simple answer is that, we think that sometimes people are not using the right goal to get motivated. There is too much focus on numbers!

Here’s what mean: Maybe to lose weight you need more motivation than just a number. You should not be motivated by how much weight you want lose. Which is what most people focus on. However, instead of focusing so closely on number of pounds, try to think of the larger health and fitness goals that you want to reach in tandem with weight loss.

For example, maybe you want to lower your blood cholesterol or increase your energy level during the day, or maybe you would like to get in shape to walk a 5K race for charity. If you need a concrete measure of your progress, make notes about these goals in your journal.

But most of all, stop focusing on the numbers, i.e. the pounds. Get a better, and more longer-range goal to focus on and use that to motivate yourself.

So what do you use to get motivated to lose weight? What are your tips?

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3 Responses to “What is the Best Way to Motivate Yourself to Lose Weight?”

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  2. Carla Cunningham on April 16th, 2009 2:41 pm

    I can relate to this article as I know from first hand experience just how hard it is to lose weight, and to maintain it. I wrote a book called `Alone in the Storm,’ which has recently been published, and it is about an overweight woman who subconsciously put on the weight to protect herself from being hurt by love. She struggles with her weight problems, and in the end she manages to overcome them, but not before she learns some important lessons in life, and realizes that in order to find love, you have to first love yourself.
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  3. Eugene on April 18th, 2009 3:14 am

    I agree totally and in actual fact, we should be focusing on the things we want and not on the things that we don’t want. For instance, we should be saying that I want to have a 33 inch waistline instead of saying how much weight we want to lose.

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