Hello everyone. Today’s article is a guest post from Stefan Edlund. On his website Stefan offers visitors a free report on How To Lose Weight Fast.
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You have decided that you are going to lose weight, you have found a great training program and diet to follow, and you feel motivated and ready. So the first week goes fine and you follow your program.
Then the next week comes along, and you maybe start to miss a few of your exercise routines, and start to cheat on your diet. And then the third week comes, and you have lost all your motivation for training and eating right, and you go back to your old habits.
Maybe you lost your motivation because you got slow result, or you just felt that this training or diet isn’t for me, or for some other reason.
This right here is a very common scenario when people are trying to lose weight.
One of the key things to losing weight is motivation. Without the right motivation you can have the best training in the world and still fail because you will not follow through with your weight loss. You need to learn how to stay motivated even when it goes slow if you want to succeed and this can be achieved in 6 simple steps:
1. Create a vision of what you want to look like
2. Set goals
3. Get support
4. Make your training a routine
5. Find the right training/diet for you
6. Reward yourself
1. Create a vision of what you want to look like
You need to create a vision of yourself what you want to look like, so you know what you are working towards. You can draw a picture of the body you want, or you can go online and find a picture of someone with a great body that you want. And print it out and stick it somewhere where you can see it daily and think about it.
2. Set goals
You have probably heard this one before, but it’s also crucial to your motivation. You need to set some long term goals every few month or so, but make sure they are realistic. But the most important part of setting goals is setting small goals each week that you can achieve. Cause if you set a goal and you complete it you will feel great, and want to go on.
3. Get support
It’s hard to do this journey on your own, try to get friends and family to support you, and try to join forums and write and talk to people there in the same position as yourself.
4. Make your training a routine
What I mean by this is that you should be specific about when you train, you always want to train on the same days on the same time. And make sure you follow that time, because it will become a routine and it will be much easier to do it.
5. Find the right training/diet for you
There are a lot of programs out there and a lot of them are just rubbish. You need to find something that fits you, some people wants to go on a starvation diet and get it done fast (but that will not work most of the time) and some people want long term programs. Go on forums and find out more about programs that can fit for you.
6. Reward yourself
This is kind of connected to the goal part. Because when you complete a goal you want to reward yourself, and I don’t mean reward yourself with food or a day of training. I mean maybe go to a spa, get a massage or spend a day in bed watching movies.
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