Weight Loss Motivation

When it comes to weight loss motivation the most important thing you can do is get your mind right. Getting motivated to lose weight typically happens through some life altering event for most people. Something like the doctor telling you that you are going to die if you don’t lose weight, or loosing someone close to you because of health issues. It can also be something less profound like getting really embarrassed because a chair breaks on you, or you can’t fit in your seat on an airplane. What these events do underneath the external motivating factor is create a change at your core that gives you unstoppable motivation to lose the weight once and for all.

It is very important that you get this motivation in place before you even attempt to lose weight otherwise you are setting yourself up for failure. The good news is that you don’t need some tragedy in your life to build this unstoppable motivation. All you really need to do is set some goals and attach an emotional reason for achieving them. When I decided to lose weight it wasn’t a major event, it was just me making up my mind that I was going to do it and nothing was going to stop me. I set huge goals like “I have lost over 100 pounds and feel better than ever. I can finally spend time doing things with my family and friends without my weight being an issue.”

Notice how that goal is written.

It is written in the presence tense. I wrote it this way to reinforce the fact that it happening is guaranteed and not debatable as opposed to something like “I will lose 100 pounds”. The difference is the way your mind interrupts it. I have means it has been done and my body just needs to catch up. “ I will means eventually I’ll get around to it.

It is attached to a tangible feeling. “I feel better than ever” is open ended and addresses the fact that losing weight will make me feel good. As I got healthier this became more true everyday which reinforced the fact that I was achieving my goal.

It is personal and emotional. “I can finally…” is associated to the things that my weight was preventing me from doing. So losing the weight will allow me to do certain things that I could not have done with the weight.

What is your motivation for losing weight? How will you feel when you achieve that goal? What steps can you make today to move toward that goal?

These are the questions you need to ask yourself in order to start losing the weight and get healthy. For more information about goal setting, building motivation, and achieving your weight loss goals check out my e-book at www.Burn-Belly-Fat.com.