Losing weight is an excruciating experience for anyone who is hell-bent on achieving their goals. Always waking up earlier than you are used to all your life, pushing yourself through both cold and warm weather, straining and bruising your leg from an intense workout, it is all part of the training they say.
How about when your cravings are back or when you feel less motivated to keep to your schedule or routine just because you are not getting the numbers in your head. It’s a no-brainer if anybody finds themselves in such a situation.
It’s easy for people to feel less motivated after some weeks and even months in the bag. It’s nobody’s fault if your body continues resisting these challenges it’s currently going through. It’s also not a crime if you choose to go at your own pace, as long as you do the needful.
To motivate yourself in other to continue your weight loss program, you need to;
_Ask yourself some questions
It’s easy to start a weight loss program because your friends are doing it, you are looking to impress people, and you want to look good in a dress and much more. But as the daily routine creeps in, you might start hearing a voice in your head that ” this isn’t for me.”
Find the reason you started in the first place and look at your daily routine to see if they adhere to the simple facts of why you want to lose weight. If it makes you feel any better, take a look in the mirror and ask yourself these questions and see if you come up with some answers. It will enable you on how to move forward from here.
Don’t fool yourself, what do you want from all this?
It’s quite easy to say I want to lose 30℅ of my body weight by the end of this program and nobody will fault you for it. It’s your right, and only you know the type of inner strength you have to carry on while other might be quitting.
But have you also asked yourself if they are attainable? Do you have any idea how to make them realistic or is just word of mouth for you? When people start a weight loss program, they often have lofty aspirations for their body and their overall health. When the gear sets in, the story seems to change.
If you are going to motivate yourself while losing weight, you have to be realistic. Part of being realistic is starting with smaller goals that are more achievable to loftier ones that are specific.
Smaller goals and bigger ones
Don’t sugarcoat your weight loss program if you haven’t started achieving process goals like running for 30 minutes, bike for hours, jumping through bricks and pulling a heavy stone daily. The smaller the process goals, the more comfortable you should achieve them to motivate yourself. If you can lose 5 -10℅ weight of this process goals, you are on your way to making your 30% loss of body weight after the program.
If you can’t attain the process goals, you are not motivated, and you have to find the cause of it.
Make it a lifestyle
The reason why most people who lose weight add them all back after five years and more is because they didn’t personalize those things they learned and engaged in to make it a lifestyle. You can’t leave a program, and the next thing you do is stop training and start eating junk again. It doesn’t work that way.
By making it a lifestyle, it will motivate you to want to achieve more than you already have. You see people maintaining the same lifestyle as you and you feel motivated to carry on task and continuously continue to set goals and achieve them.
You are thinking long term if you make it a lifestyle. By sticking to those tenets of your training and achieving them like, reducing your portion size, doing sit-ups as soon as you wake up, it’s a way to keep motivating yourself.
Monitor your progress
An excellent way to motivate yourself is to monitor everything about you since you started this weight loss program. The food you eat, the exercises you are involve in, where your strength lies, what are your weaknesses, this all bores down to having the right perspective of where you are now, and what you should do in the future to attain your desired goal.
See it as a security check on your activities the past few weeks and months to see if you are making progress.
Celebrate and share your success stories
Nobody will motivate you if you don’t tell them your story and how you got there. Their kind compliments took commitment on your part to achieve, so enjoy the moments when people say you are doing good and tell them how you got there. Your sleepless night about how you looked before you took on the program, your earlier battles starting out and much more. People will encourage you and celebrate with you during this period.
Social support is important
Share your story with support groups on social media to get compliments and motivate others as well. Post you before, and after pictures to tell people that whatever they set their mind to, they can achieve it.
Understand that there will be setbacks
Did you think it was always going to be rosy for you in this time and age where people are too lazy to work out? They spend all day on phone and TVs, and they wonder how they gained weight.
You have taken it upon yourself to lose weight, and that is one of the hardest decisions people make because they know the constant setbacks they go through like; cravings, not sticking to a training plan, etc
You are here, healthier with low sugar level, reduction in the risk of heart disease, low cholesterol level, and reduced joint pain. That is how you get motivated to continue.