50 Ways to stay motivated during your weight loss:

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limberly

Joined: Feb 11
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Posted: 16 Mar 2012, 11:16
Founds this online, cannot remember the website, but thought I'd share it with everyone....

50 Ways to stay motivated during your weight loss:
1) Think wellness not weight loss.
2) Set reasonable goals.
3) LIMIT but do not ELIMINATE.
4) Pace yourself.
5) Try tipping your scales with blue.
6) Take stock of any and all of the positive changes new eating habits have brought you.
7) Celebrate the small victories!
Cool Wear red to get going!
9) Trick out your tracksuit!
10) Drop the "perfect" mentality.
11) Be kind to yourself.
12) Nix the “all or nothing” approach.
13) Have an accountability partner.
14) Each day write down how your weight loss is making you feel healthier.
15) When you fall down, get right back up and try again.
16) Focus on what is going right.
17) Stop focusing only on physical changes.
1Cool Use your social network!
19) Schedule all your workouts at least a month ahead of time.
20) Choose one or two new, healthy habits to take on – not 10 or 20.
21) Take a cue from your local coffee house and set the mood for your mind.
22) Change the scenery around you.
23) Sleep on it.
24) Turn off the negative self-talk.
25) Have a Plan B ready.
26) Be Your Own Cheerleader.
27) Keep your motivation (and goals) evolving.
2Cool Cross train your habits.
29) 3-Step your goal.
30) Evaluate your goal.
31) List the painful consequences of not achieving your goal.
32) Use You Tube for Inspiration.
33) Stay away from bad influences.
34) Keep a success journal
35) Name one reason why losing weight is bad for you.
36) Do some constructive venting.
37) Take it one ½ day at a time.
3Cool Share your weight loss goals with friends and loved ones.
39) Get a taste of what you want.
40) Recognize how far you’ve come.
41) Pick up on visual cues.
42) Take note of your options and actions.
43) Know Yourself.
44) Reward your Righteousness.
45) Bliss Out.
46) Create a vision.
47) Stay simple.
4Cool Get a theme song.
49) Stay sane by cheating
50) Donate your "fat" clothes.



 
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