Motivation For Weight Loss
Most people start out a weight loss program with good motivation for weight loss. They find a diet and/or exercise program that appeals to them and they get excited about losing weight as they begin. The problem is, that excitement doesn’t last long in the majority of cases and many people begin to “cheat” on their weight loss programs within just a few days, and most ultimately give up completely within a few weeks.
Even the best weight loss program is going to fail miserably if you don’t follow it and you give up on it before it has a chance to provide you with any tangible results. What seems like sufficient motivation when you begin your weight loss efforts is probably not going to be sufficient to keep you going until you reach your weight loss goal. It is critical to “motivate to lose weight” on an ongoing basis to keep yourself on track. You must make conscious efforts to keep your motivation high, just as much as you must consistently follow your diet and exercise regimen.
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 key to highly effective motivation for weight loss. For the majority of people, emotional leverage is strongest when it comes from the desire to avoid negative feelings. Because of this, it is necessary to get in touch with the negative feelings that are driving your desire to lose weight. Many people do everything they can to avoid negative feelings, but to be able to accomplish significant goals in losing weight, experiencing negative emotion is essential to getting strongly motivated to follow through on diet and exercise programs.
If you’re not ready to experience any negative emotion, it’s probably best if you stop reading this article right now and forget about losing weight.
You must be willing to take a hard look inward to get to the emotions behind wanting to lose weight. As an example, if being overweight makes you feel fat and ugly, really associate to that feeling. Take it a step further and figure out how those feelings are effecting your life in other ways. Perhaps you’re living a lonely life because you are starting to avoid social situations because you feel fat and ugly and think that others will view you the same way. Whatever negative emotions regarding your weight that you can access, really investigate them and really feel the pain. That pain is going to be the “fuel” that drives you to lose the excess weight once and for all and keep it off!
If you would like to learn more advanced techniques to help you lose weight and keep it off, please visit Dr. Best’s motivation for weight loss website where you can get free sample chapters of his ebook “Training Your Brain For Weight Loss” as well as his free ebook with diet and exercise recommendations for specific patterns of weight gain, called “The Total Solution For The Weight Loss Impaired”.
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