We all know diets work. Every book, article, regimen, fitness plan, you name it works as long as you actually do it. Getting the weight motivation to follow through is arguably the most important part of losing weight. The information will always be there...that's the elusive piece of the puzzle, the thing that everyone wants and few of us have. How do you get the to get started, stay on track, and most importantly, weight motivation to get where you want to go?
How To Get To The Core Of Weight Loss
We get emails from people in everyday sharing their frustrations and challenges with weight loss. About 60% of them say they lack the weight motivation to stick with their weight loss program. They report that they do well for awhile and lose some weight, but inevitably fall off track- whether due to a loss of focus or some other kind of self-sabotage.
As a Personal Development Coach specializing in weight loss, and who was originally trained as a psychotherapist, it's very easy for me to give them advice, but as I sat down to write this article, I thought it might be nice to really start at the most basic, fundamental level of understanding weight motivation, and to then work up from there.
So armed with my trusty Mozilla Firefox I did a quick Google search for a basic definition of the word. Here is the first thing that Google gave me to consider (it came from an online dictionary associated with Princeton University) weight motivation:
"the psychological feature that arouses an organism weight motivation to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and the condition of being motivated."
So let's pull some key words weight motivation from that definition and see if we can come up with a useful way to apply the concept to weight loss.
Action Toward a Desired Goal:
Taking action here implies that there is a desired goal in place, so the first thing that you must be absolutely clear on is 'what is your goal weight motivation?'
Weight motivation the challenge here is that it's usually not sufficient to just come up with a number. 20 pounds or 30 pounds isn't going to cut it. You've known that for perhaps years, and telling yourself "I need to lose 20 pounds" over and over again hasn't gotten the job done. Just having a number in mind is not provocative enough of a goal.
