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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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