5 Weight Loss Motivational Tips

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Motivation is one of the most important things if you are on the quest of losing some weight off. Without motivation you will be having a hard time achieving your goals, in this case, losing weight. Anyway, staying motivated is not an easy thing, even more nowadays that everyone wants to lose weight right now, by using a "magic pill" or something similar.

Without proper motivation, anyone will eventually fail at accomplish their goals, because they will not have what it takes to achieve what they have set before. It has happened even to me, and I consider myself a very disciplined man. Every so often doubts will creep in, and you will need some motivation. That's why I will give you 5 free tips on weight loss motivation, so that next time you have some troubles losing weight you will know what to do.

5 Weight Loss Motivation Tips

Tip No. 1: Do Not Care About What Anyone Says About You. If your friends and family think that you can't do it, you do it anyway. Usually when you take big and important decisions, people tend resist at first. That's because people don't like change at all. It's like that. Mediocrity is just around the corner. Avoid it at all cost. Remember: you are not mediocre, and you can achieve anything you set up to. Losing weight is up to you and no one will care if you don't do it. Repeat that until is internalized in your to head.

Tip No. 2: Watch Movies And Listen To Music That Motivates You. If the movie "Pumping Iron" motivates you to do some weights, then watch it every week or so. If "Rocky" motivates you, then do the same as I said before. That can be applied to any movie that motivates you. Also, if you like to hear your own music every time you go out to exercise, then put some motivational music to your Ipod (or whatever device you use). Some people like exercising listening to techno, some others like to hear some rock n' roll. See what kind of music puts you in a good mood, and use it every single time you exercise so that will make you wanna exercise often.

Tip No. 3: Get A Partner. If you want to lose some weight, then get someone to share your goal. Maybe a friend, or a relative. That way you will have fun while you exercise!

Tip No. 4: Innovate! Try new things every so often. Go to a new gym, buy some supplements, buy some books, or just buy new clothes. You will have some fun doing it, and it will motivate you a lot.

Tip No. 5: Compare Yourself By Taking Before And After Pictures. It's a VERY important thing to do. If you feel like giving up, watching your old pictures will make you wanna continue with your goal.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

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4 steps to get motivated to finally lose that weight

Motivation Tips #1

In order to get motivated, you must first set clear goal, both unrealistic and realistic goals. When setting the unrealistic goals try to make them as unrealistic as possible! SHOCKING! I know right?

But there is a reason to the madness. The key to getting motivated is to learn how to truly inspire your own mind and psyche. The way we do this is by asking the simple question WHY. This is why it is so important to dream big and first start with a very unrealistic goal. Be sure to make this goal as clear as possible. Let your mind wander and dream for a minute. Picture yourself living that accomplished goal down to each and every detail. Close your eyes and picture the very clothes you would wear, what you would drive, smells you would smell, energy you would feel, job you would have, place you would live, people you would associate with... Everything. This inspires our inner self. Then do the same with a more realistic and obtainable goal. By setting the realistic goal it allows the brain to believe the goal is achievable.

Motivation Tips #2

Ask yourself what the reason is you want to lose weight in the first place. Whatever your specific reason is, it can be broken down into 2 major categories.

For Myself or For Someone/Something Else

You may have multiple reasons but each one will fit into one of the two categories. The goal here is to have more reasons in first category than the second. As long as you are trying to do something just for someone else you will inevitably struggle with motivation and have a much higher chance of failing. If your reasons are primarily for someone else I would highly recommend you stop and take a step back and reevaluate what the underlying reason is for you. In order to increase motivation you need to do it for you!

Once you've reevaluated what motivates you, then and only then you should add more reasons to the "For Myself" category. This is only time when it is OK to be selfish. Sometimes all it takes is just a simple rewording of a statement. For instance you may only want to lose weight because your spouse told you to. This reason would fall into the "For Someone Else" category. Now if you simply re-word this you can say, "I want to lose weight because it would ultimately make ME happy. My spouse will be happier and that will make ME happy." See how you can make anything about you. Go through and make as many reasons about you as possible.

Motivation Tips #3

As an additional motivator make a list of everything you are trying to move away from and avoid. Write out all the negative health effects, relationship effects, emotional effects that will be caused if you don't change and lose the weight. Be sure to make this as worst case and scary as possible. Pretty scary huh? This is an important exercise because it helps you put a face on your fear, and fear is a powerful motivator. Keep this list and refer to it regularly to remind yourself of what you want avoid and move away from.

Motivation Tips #4

In the first tip I had you make both and unrealistic goal and then refine to a realistic goal. This is the last step to this continual process. This is the HOW phase. Take your realistic goal, and now refine it again and again. Each time making it closer and closer and clearer and clearer, until you have a goal set for the very next meal or workout session you will take part in. What this means is break down your goal by time frame and overall weight lose. Take the amount of weight you want to lose and divide it by the number of months you want to lose it in, divided by the number of days in a month 30. Now you have your goal for weight loss per day. Knowing this number you can now make a goal for your next meal or next workout based on knowing that the average male needs approximately 2000 calories a day to sustain body weight and the average woman need roughly 1600, and knowing that every 2000 calories additional is a pound of weight gained and every 2000 calories less is a roughly the loss of a pound of weight. Knowing this you can calculate your necessary meal intake and exercise workout plan to achieve your goals. See how little change is actually necessary? See, you can achieve your goals!

And remember this quote that my High School coach used to tell us all the time: If you always do what you've always done, You'll always be who you've always been. In other words, if you never change anything then you will be exactly who you are forever.

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