Setting Yourself Up to Win
- Take a “before” picture and look at it constantly. The whole point of doing this is to motivate yourself to change the way you are. Keep reminding yourself that you don’t want to stay this way and that you’ll do what it takes to change.
- Have pictures of “role models”. This helps you to keep your goal in mind. Go find a picture of someone that has your same body type and has a body that you think you could believably achieve and look at it constantly as well.
- Watch the health news. this one may sound a little weird, but its a really good idea to become conscious of why you might need to make some changes. If you keep yourself up to date on the growing concerns out there associated with obesity and take a “I won’t be part of the problem” attitude, it can really be motivating.
- Have a support group. Its very important to take note of who you hang out with or who is in your social circle. Make sure that you are around people that support what you’re doing. Eventually you might get to the point where you honestly don’t care what others think and you really are just doing it for yourself, but at the beginning your motivation is very fragile. Protect it and be careful who you share it with.
While this is not an all encompassing list, we hope that it will at least help you to maintain a high level of motivation for a longer period of time. A lot of what you will achieve in your goals will be determined by your attitude towards what you’re doing.
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Eventually you might get to the point where you honestly don’t care what others think and you really are just doing it for yourself, but at the beginning your motivation is very fragile.