Get Motivated To Lose Weight
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.
As a word of caution here, if you are not willing or able to handle dealing with strong negative emotions right now, you should stop reading this article at this point and forget about trying to lose weight for the time being.
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!
To learn advanced techniques to assist with your weight loss efforts, visit Dr. Best’s website on motivation for weight loss and get a the first two chapters of his ebook “Training Your Brain For Weight Loss” and a his complete diet and exercise ebook, “The Total Solution For The Weight Loss Impaired” for free.