How To Stay Motivated On Your Quest To Lose Weight - Must-Read Strategies To Help You Succeed

Keeping up your motivation to lose weight can be easy and fun, which is why I have put together this list of tips to help you to stay on track with your weight loss goal.

Do you have any friends who also want to lose weight and would like to go for walks or to the gym with you?

Do you have a dog who would love you forever if you took him/her for a walk every day? He/she might need to lose weight too!

If you're ok with joining a gym, then go ahead and do it! Some gyms offer free personal training sessions, so make sure you take them up on it and let your trainer know what your goal is!

Go dancing with a group of friends.

Go for a bike ride around the lake (if you have one!) - enjoy the scenery!

If you have children, take them to the park and run around with them. They will have a wonderful time and so will you!

Get yourself a chart so you can count down as you lose weight. For example, if you want to lose 30 pounds, write the numbers from your current weight, down to your goal weight on a piece of paper. Stick this to the refrigerator door and after you weigh yourself each month, cross off a number as the weight is lost. You will see, just by looking at the sheet, how far you have come!

Why not reward yourself every month you have lost weight? A reward might be a facial, or a manicure, or a pedicure, or you might reward yourself by adding some more money to your "holiday fund". The choice is yours, but it's got to be something you will look forward to as weighing in day approaches! Be sure to reward yourself with something to help your cause, not with something that will sabotage it. You want to LOSE weight remember?!

Another wonderful way to keep you motivated is to tell your friends, family and coworkers about your goal. Get them to "sponsor" you by promising to do something good for themselves (or you!) when you reach a certain goal weight. So for example, one person may promise to give up smoking once you reach 160 pounds, another person may offer you a foot massage when you reach 155 pounds. What a great way to get everyone involved and to help keep you accountable!

Staying motivated to lose weight is probably the hardest part of losing weight. If you can make the most of the strategies listed here, you will significantly increase your chances of success.

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