Weight Loss - Motivation Tips and Strategies

How do you maintain your weight loss motivation beyond the first 5 or 10 pounds?  

We've all been there, you make incredible progress in your weight loss program, only to fall "off the wagon" a few days later because you lose that initial weight loss motivation.


It's true, your mental attitude is 90% of the battle in achieving rapid weight loss.


Here are 6 weight loss motivation tips you can use next time you hit the wall in your weight loss program


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 1
Set realistic goals. By planning to lose 10 pounds each week, you are setting yourself up for a letdown.


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 2
Set flexible goals. Understand that you will lose more weight in the first 2-weeks of your weight loss program than you will after.


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 3
Have a support system in place. If you can set goals with a friend or support group, you will have more motivation to succeed.


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 4
Make sure your weight loss program includes exercise. Exercise results in positive chemicals being released in your brain which helps with staying positive and achieving maintaining weight loss motivation.


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 5
Have a strategy to combat stress. Stress is the 1 cause of uncontrollable activity in our lives. Practice meditation as part of your weight loss program.


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 6
Set goals beyond losing weight. Set goals linked with happiness, feeling better, looking better, having more energy - less focus on pounds lost to overall health will give you more motivation.

Check out the 17 minutes HD "Weight Loss Motivational Tips" Video for better weight management