When you’re motivated to get fit and healthy, it’s easy to want to get the workouts in and to change your diet completely. You’re all in, you’re ready for this, and you love every second of it. Once your motivation is gone, however, it’s easy to fall back into old habits such as skipping a workout or eating poorly.
While it’s fine to take a day of rest or to indulge in those amazing donuts you love so much in moderation, you can’t let your lack of motivation change the way you feel about your health. If you feel your motivation isn’t there, try these tips to motivate you to maintain your good health.
Set Small Goals
You have a big goal, but you must break that down into smaller goals you can achieve over time. When you have more than one goal to check off your list, you feel motivated. Here’s a good example. You want to get fit and healthy, lose weight, and look amazing on a tropical beach vacation in six months. That’s your main goal. You break that goal down into smaller goals. Perhaps you work out four days a week for at least a 30 minutes, and maybe you want to eat 80 percent healthy food and allow yourself 20 percent of indulgence food.
Write those down and cross those smaller goals off every day. If you manage to work out for 30 minutes that day, check it off your list. If you eat all healthy food that day so you can save your indulgence for a date this weekend, check it off your list. Each time you achieve even the smallest goal, you’ll feel so much more motivated and positive about your life.
Find Accountability
Support is essential to motivation. We all want to be self-sufficient, but the truth is that nothing can replace the support, encouragement, and accountability we get from our friends. Support motivates. It’s as simple as that.
Find someone to make you accountable. This is a person you need to check in with each day. It’s embarrassing to admit to someone you failed simply because you felt lazy or didn’t want to. You’d much rather tell that person you did meet your goals for the day, and that keeps you motivated. Let their disappointment motivate you to stay accountable.
Get Positive About Your Weight Loss Journey
Many of us have a hard time getting over feeling negative when we look at our overweight bodies. Start with getting positive about weight loss because attitude really is everything. Research shows that happiness increases productivity. Happy people are more successful. Let go of negativity and stop being so hard on yourself. Celebrate your wins. Nothing is more motivating than progress. You’ve got to be your own best cheerleader when you’re on a weight loss journey.
Your body is going to change if you can change your mind. That’s why your motivation level is so important. If you fill your days with what you love and use your energy, all of it, mental, physical and spiritual, to motivate your success, you can lose weight and will win the happy, healthy life you deserve.
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