Motivation to Lose Weight - How to Set a Goal

Motivation is the main thing that makes us to do thing we would like not to. I mean of course we would like to do these things. But in the way to get the result. We would be willing to skip the whole process and reach the final point only. For example - money. Most of people hate their job. Or when they are neutral to their job or even they love their job, in most cases these people would do something different instead of their job if they had sufficient passive income. In this case money motivates you to get up early in the morning regardless weather outside the window or late party the day before. Your salary motivates you to do so much effort 5 days a week. Even not a salary, but the benefits you can buy for money you get - food, house, clothes, entertainment. 

The same with other fields of our lives. The same with losing weight. It's not enough to be motivated only at the start. It is very important to keep your motivation to lose weight until you reach the point you want. There are many cases when a person full of energy start his or her diet or workout program and give up in a couple of weeks. You find this familiar, don't you? 

Actually I can write a book about how to maintain motivation to lose weight. There can be told so many things and aspects that it could result in several volumes. But now I would like to tell you about the first and the main step you should do – set a goal – and how it should be done.

First of all, carefully analyze and think what result you want to achieve by the end of your program. The best way is to think about the things you want to have or improve and make a list of them. For example: excellent fitness shape, fit in your favorite red dress or suit, to have great health, to run a marathon, etc. There are hundreds or even thousands of such things. I am going to publish a list with much-much more of them to my Motivation to Lose Weight blog soon.

Then define the parameters how to know you've reached your goal. For example, 100 pounds (down from 200), body particular measurements (which you want to have), to be able to run 10 miles in a row, etc.

After that you should make a plan how you are going to achieve your goal. You should plan every week or better day what are you going to do in order to achieve your goal. Write out every step. I recommend you plan your meals for the week, buy your products in advance so you can avoid evil snacks like crisps or cheeseburgers.

When you’ve done all this, next step is start! Just move forward and get it! Do not postpone to another day, start right now! And remember, whenever you will need motivation to lose weight, you already know where to find me!