Twenty Best Weight Loss Motivation TipsWeight Loss Motivation 
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Here are twenty great weight loss motivation tips to help you along with your diet and fitness goals.
There are thousands of weight loss programs out there which will work for you and everyone else that wants to lose weight. Why is it then that so few people succeed in reaching their target weight, or worse, reach their goal and then put the weight right back on again?
It’s not a case of having to pick the right diet and fitness plan to be successful (although some are better than others). And yet people go from one program to another hoping that this time they have found the magic formula to weight loss.
In weight loss, as in reaching many goals, the key is motivation. Those who are most motivated are those who succeed. And you need to keep your level of motivation high not just at the beginning of your weight loss program, when you have decided to lose weight but also throughout the program. You need motivation to help you stick to your diet and fitness routine and you need more motivation afterwards to help you keep your superb new shape.
Motivation Tip 1. Weight loss motivation is all about desire rather than willpower. How much do you want to lose weight? How much more do you want to lose weight than you want to eat fattening food and lay on the sofa watching TV all day?
List all your reasons for wanting to lose weight, or stay healthy and slim. Add more reasons to your list as you think of them. Make reading your list the first thing you do in the morning
Motivation Tip 2. Sustain motivation by making getting to your target weight believable. Visualize success. How will you look when you lose weight? How will you feel? What will you be wearing? How will your clothes feel on you? What will people be saying to you?
What will you be saying? What will you be doing? Spend 5 minutes a day imagining and enjoying your future success. A great way to while away the time waiting in a line or commuting, not so great for driving though!
Motivation Tip 3. If you have a lot of weight to lose it can be hard to sustain your focus. If that is the case, plan some activities throughout the year that you would like to be slim for, for example Valentine’s Day, your birthday, a weekend away, your annual vacation, Thanksgiving etc. - your Weight loss motivation dates!
Plot out your goal weight for each event with a sensible rate of weight loss (max 1-2lbs per week) and use each mile-stone as a major target in itself. Use the same strategy for weight maintenance by ensuring that you stay the same weight for each special date in your calendar.
Motivation Tip 4. Boost your weight loss motivation by promising yourself a treat when you reach your goals. Build in some non-food rewards for every little step you take as well as for major milestones. How about a beauty treatment for each 4lbs lost? Or buy a book by your favorite author and allow yourself time to read in peace (and without guilt) each time you do your full workout.
And each time you make a healthy choice rather than an available unhealthy choice (walking instead of taking the car, fresh fruit instead of ice-cream) pat yourself on the back. Tell yourself that you’re doing great, because you are!
Motivation Tip 5. Take a picture of yourself in your swimsuit or leotard at the start of your program. Each month take another picture wearing the same thing. Feel your weight loss motivation sore as the swimsuit gets baggy while you shrink. A Digital camera is great for taking those pictures you don’t want to take to the developers!
Motivation Tip 6. Get your subconscious to help with weight loss motivation. It’s a lot easier if your mind is on your side! Try motivating tapes and even hypnosis. These have worked for many people. They help you get the right messages deep into your brain supporting your decision to lose weight and they help you to relax. Stress is the top reason why people eat when they are not hungry.
Motivation Tip 7. Buy and read slimming magazines and then cut out those inspirational stories of people who have succeeded in losing more weight than you. If they can do it, so can you. Re-read the stories when you’re feeling down about your diet or think you are reaching a weight loss plateau. People who lose weight are not super-human. They just decided to go for it and then never gave up!
Motivation Tip 8. Keep a record of how well you are doing. This should include your measurements as well as your weight, and include a section on how fit you are and how you are feeling. Add your pictures if you are following Tip 5. There’s some good software on the market that you can use to chart out your progress if you like having that kind of visual record.
Motivation Tip 9. Get the support of others working towards the same goal. Many people the world over swear by local slimming groups. They give you accountability as well as education, support and a chance to make new friends in your community. You can also use them for maintenance once you have lost weight.
Motivation Tip 10. Go public! Offer to be a guinea pig for a magazine or TV show or get everyone in the office to sponsor you - you will have to succeed.
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.
Motivation Tip 16. What makes the best weight loss motivation? You slopping around in old baggy clothes, berating yourself for how ugly you feel or you, looking your best at whatever stage you’re at, wearing clothes which fit and your hair and makeup done?
You are a beautiful person. You are just trying to match the outside to the beautiful you inside. Make the effort to look as good as you can while you lose weight to boost your morale.
Always have at least two smart casual outfits that fit you perfectly rather than wearing too-tight clothes (you refused to buy a bigger size) or clothes you’ve long since got to small for (they make you look as baggy as they are).
Motivation Tip 17. Get rid of any clothes that are too big for you as soon as you lose weight. Anyone with a fat set of clothes in the wardrobe is expecting to fit them again and actions often follow expectations, before you know it you’ll be eating to fit them.
Motivation Tip 18. Have a role model- someone you know who eats healthily and works out. Notice how that person acts around food, what they eat and how they eat. How do they fit in exercise within their lifestyle. You need to think like a slim person too. You know it can be done.
Motivation Tip 19. Train for a spectacular event. Apply to run a marathon or join a sponsored program to walk the Great Wall of China. Aim to have 6 months to a year to prepare.
Consult an expert to get a proper training program in place. Let your goal drive you on to success. How much more motivating to be “training for the Paris marathon” than “jogging to lose weight and get fit”.
Motivation Tip 20. Lose weight for yourself. No one else cares about your health and your looks more than you. Your family and friends may even fear that you will change too much from the you that they love. You may not get the encouragement you want.
More than anything you need to do this because you love and value yourself. You matter. You really do!
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