mercredi 18 mars 2015

Six Keys To Successfully Motivating Weight Loss

By Leslie Ball


If you have ever been on a diet, you understand just how difficult it can be to say motivated while you try to drop those extra pounds. There's absolutely nothing easy about the process. That explains why so many millions of people fail to follow through on their dietary plans each year, and instead quit before they make much progress at all. To succeed, you need to know the keys to motivating weight loss success so that you can achieve your goals.

The first key is to have expectations that you can really meet. You didn't gain all those extra pounds overnight, and they're not going away that quickly either. You have to make smaller, measurable goals that you can achieve consistently. Most dieters find that they can only safely lose a couple pounds a week at most.

Deprivation kills dieting. Learn that fact and avoid it all costs. You didn't get out of shape just because you enjoy a piece of cake every now and again. You gained the fat because you ate too much of almost everything, and did so regularly. If you try to deny yourself all the foods you love, you will eventually fail. With that in mind, be prepared to give yourself those treats on a regular basis.

Calories cannot be ignored, since they are key to losing excess pounds. Track them, log them in a book, and record every meal and all exercise that you do. You can's modify your strategy if you don't know what you're doing, so be sure to compile that data. Later, you can gain inspiration from reviewing just how well you've done.

Accentuate the positive, while avoiding negatives. It is tempting to be down on yourself over your fat, but that accomplishes nothing. Many dieters who constantly criticize themselves simply give up and resume bad habits. Remain focused, think about how good you'll look and feel when the process is done, and surround yourself with others who will focus on those same things.

There is nothing like preparing your own food to teach you about proper nutrition. By doing so, you will learn to create new and healthy meals, gain control over the ingredients used in your meals, and regulate not only what you eat but how much you eat. The entire process can be extremely motivational, and can help to keep you focused on the task at hand.

Prepare to fail. That sounds counter-intuitive, but it actually makes sense. Accept the fact that at some point you are going to eat more than you should. You'll break your diet. Accept it beforehand, and commit to getting right back on that diet as soon as you fail. Don't let one or even several failures stop you from continuing on your journey.

There are few tasks more monumental than that of shedding excess weight. However, if you are prepared to follow these six basic pieces of advice, you can continue to be motivated to continue your efforts through to the end. When it's all said and done, you'll discover that the end goal was well worth the work required to achieve it.




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