As a society we are now focused on being healthy more than ever. New trends are coming out in the dieting world and all it takes is a little motivation to get started. Eating healthy, exercising regularly and even weight loss surgery are at an all time high as we strive for healthier lifestyles.
Here are 5 tips to help you get pumped up to lose weight!
Ask yourself, "Why?" There are many reasons to lose weight such as leading a healthier lifestyle, being able to fight off diseases and illnesses, increasing your self-confidence, and just feeling better, period. Fight for a long life, but make sure you know why you want to lose weight in the first place because this will be something to keep you motivated throughout.
Set an Overall Goal To find out what a healthy weight range is for your height, check out online height and weight charts to help you set your long-term goals. You want to be reasonable with yourself and make sure that if you are losing weight that you stay within a healthy weight for your height.
Set Weekly Goals After you have your long-term goals, set weekly goals that will help you get to your long-term goals. Make sure you set goals that are reasonable, and vary them a little from week to week to keep your weight loss program interesting. You do not want to have any negative thoughts if you do not meet your goals, but if you do meet them and even exceed them it both rewarding and more fuel for you.
Reward Yourself When you reach your goals make sure to reward yourself, not with food, but with something nice like a spa treatment, shopping trip, new frozen yogurt maker, etc.; basically something – anything – that makes you happy and feel good about yourself.
Join a Fitness Challenges Join challenges where you are motivated to beat people, or find a friend to work out with and challenge each other. Competition drives us to be better.
Look toward the future and not towards your past and failed attempts to get healthy. Once you are motivated nothing should be able to stop you, and if your weight loss stops you can set up a consultation and see if weight loss surgery is right for you. Good luck on your journey to health, we wish you nothing but the best!
