Most people start out a weight loss program with good motivation for weight loss. They find a diet and/or exercise program that appeals to them and they get excited about losing weight as they begin. The problem is, that excitement doesn’t last long in the majority of cases and many people begin to “cheat” on their weight loss programs within just a few days, and most ultimately give up completely within a few weeks.
No matter how good or effective a weight loss program is, it’s not going to work very well if you give up on it before you have a chance to get any results. What you think is good motivation to lose weight when you intially start your weight loss program may not be enough to carry you through to your goal. You need to “motivate to lose weight” with as much consistency and ongoing effort as you have to apply to the weight loss program itself.
Simply wanting to lose weight is just not enough to get motivated to lose weight and stay motivated while changing your eating and exercise habits. Losing weight requires effort, despite what the advertising hype for various weight loss programs may imply. To keep yourself moving forward and making the necessary efforts, you need to get some serious motivation for weight loss that goes beyond wanting it. You need to be at the point where you have strong emotion behind your desire to lose the weight, and you must be able to access that strong emotion any time you feel like cheating on your program.
The key to effective motivation for weight loss is emotional leverage. For most people, the most effective emotional leverage comes from what many would label as “negative” emotions, and many individuals these days go to great lengths to avoid fully experiencing their negative emotions. When it comes to accomplishing anything significant though, the vast majority of people need to intensely experience negative emotions to really get motivated for weight loss and stay that way.
If you’re not ready to experience any negative emotion, it’s probably best if you stop reading this article right now and forget about losing weight.
You must be willing to take a hard look inward to get to the emotions behind wanting to lose weight. As an example, if being overweight makes you feel fat and ugly, really associate to that feeling. Take it a step further and figure out how those feelings are effecting your life in other ways. Perhaps you’re living a lonely life because you are starting to avoid social situations because you feel fat and ugly and think that others will view you the same way. Whatever negative emotions regarding your weight that you can access, really investigate them and really feel the pain. That pain is going to be the “fuel” that drives you to lose the excess weight once and for all and keep it off!
If you would like to learn more advanced techniques to help you lose weight and keep it off, please visit Dr. Best’s motivation for weight loss website where you can get free sample chapters of his ebook “Training Your Brain For Weight Loss” as well as his free ebook with diet and exercise recommendations for specific patterns of weight gain, called “The Total Solution For The Weight Loss Impaired”.
