It is often easy for people to get motivated to lose weight at the start of a weight loss program. Most people are excited about the potential results of their chosen weight loss program, but they may fail to take into consideration the amount of effort required to obtain those results. Once the hard work begins, the excitement and motivation decrease pretty quickly and many people start to cheat in just a few days and quit their diet and exercise totally within a month or so.
No matter how good or effective a weight loss program is, it's not going to work very well if you give up on it before you have a chance to get any results. What you think is good motivation to lose weight when you intially start your weight loss program may not be enough to carry you through to your goal. You need to "motivate to lose weight" with as much consistency and ongoing effort as you have to apply to the weight loss program itself.
Just wanting to drop some pounds is simply not enough to get highly motivated and stay that way. To lose weight, you will have to put forth a significant amount of effort, regardless of what the marketing hype about how easy a weight loss program is might lead you to believe. To stay on track and make the necessary changes in your eating and exercise habits, you need strong, emotional motivating factors. You need to experience strong emotions to stay adequately motivated and you need to be able to access those strong emotions on a moment's notice to keep you from giving in to moments of weakness that make you want to cheat.
Emotional leverage is the necessary ingredient for highly effective motivation to lose weight. In most cases, emotional leverage is most powerful when it comes from the desire to avoid negative feelings. Because of this, it is necessary to get in touch with whatever negative feelings you may have that are producing your desire to lose weight. Many people do everything they can to avoid experiencing intense negative feelings, but to be able to accomplish the goals of weight loss, experiencing negative emotion in an intense way is necessary to getting strongly motivated to keep you on track with your diet and exercise regimen and meet your weight loss goals.
I think it is important to give a word of caution here. If you are not willing or able to handle dealing with strong negative emotions at this time, you should stop reading this article right now and forget about trying to lose weight for the time being, as trying to lose weight will only be a frustrating experience without proper motivation.
You have to take a hard look at your reasons for losing weight and really get into the emotions behind those reasons. For example, if you feel unattractive because of the excess weight, really get into that feeling. What are the consequences of feeling unattractive. Maybe your romantic relationships suffer. Maybe you start to avoid being around the people you love because you think they'll see you as fat and disgusting. Really get into it and feel the pain - that's the thing that's going to keep you on track so you can finally lose the weight!
No matter how good or effective a weight loss program is, it's not going to work very well if you give up on it before you have a chance to get any results. What you think is good motivation to lose weight when you intially start your weight loss program may not be enough to carry you through to your goal. You need to "motivate to lose weight" with as much consistency and ongoing effort as you have to apply to the weight loss program itself.
Just wanting to drop some pounds is simply not enough to get highly motivated and stay that way. To lose weight, you will have to put forth a significant amount of effort, regardless of what the marketing hype about how easy a weight loss program is might lead you to believe. To stay on track and make the necessary changes in your eating and exercise habits, you need strong, emotional motivating factors. You need to experience strong emotions to stay adequately motivated and you need to be able to access those strong emotions on a moment's notice to keep you from giving in to moments of weakness that make you want to cheat.
Emotional leverage is the necessary ingredient for highly effective motivation to lose weight. In most cases, emotional leverage is most powerful when it comes from the desire to avoid negative feelings. Because of this, it is necessary to get in touch with whatever negative feelings you may have that are producing your desire to lose weight. Many people do everything they can to avoid experiencing intense negative feelings, but to be able to accomplish the goals of weight loss, experiencing negative emotion in an intense way is necessary to getting strongly motivated to keep you on track with your diet and exercise regimen and meet your weight loss goals.
I think it is important to give a word of caution here. If you are not willing or able to handle dealing with strong negative emotions at this time, you should stop reading this article right now and forget about trying to lose weight for the time being, as trying to lose weight will only be a frustrating experience without proper motivation.
You have to take a hard look at your reasons for losing weight and really get into the emotions behind those reasons. For example, if you feel unattractive because of the excess weight, really get into that feeling. What are the consequences of feeling unattractive. Maybe your romantic relationships suffer. Maybe you start to avoid being around the people you love because you think they'll see you as fat and disgusting. Really get into it and feel the pain - that's the thing that's going to keep you on track so you can finally lose the weight!
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