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Daily Motivation For Weight Loss

Staying motivated each and every day is one of the most difficult and essential requirements to be successful at losing weight and maintaining weight loss. Motivation levels will vary from day to day, or hour to hour. They tend to be high at the beginning of a weight loss program, but quickly wane when the going gets tough. Being highly motivated means you exercise on a consistent basis, even when you don’t feel like it and you stick with the healthy dietary choices, even when you’ve have a bad day.

SELF-ESTEEM AND SUPPORT Losing weight is something you have to do yourself and nobody can do it for you, but ironically you can’t do it alone and outside help is necessary. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, both self-esteem and support from others are required to stay motivated every day to remain on the weight loss path.

BUILD YOUR SELF-RELIANCE Challenging yourself daily, trying out new tasks or skills, big or little, setting small, obtainable goals and going out of your comfort zone all develop self esteem and self confidence. When you experience small achievements and taste success, the more motivated you become. These are the building blocks to the level of self-reliance required to lose weight. After all, only you can do this.

BE CONNECTED Get the help you need, whether it’s finding a workout buddy, subscribing to an expert online weight loss website, attending a local group meeting or hiring a personal trainer. Your friends and family can provide valuable encouragement, but the assistance of an outsider, a committed workout partner or exercise professional can hold you accountable on a daily basis, increasing your chances of reaching your goals.

KEEP A FOOD JOURNAL Keeping a daily food and activity journal is a useful and fundamental tool to track your caloric intake, protein, carb and fat percentages, fiber, sugar and sodium ingested and calories burned through exercise. Food and activity journals range from hand-written logs to web programs and smartphone apps.

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Every day brings with it new circumstances and challenges which can lead to setbacks. Planning for these obstacles can help mitigate some of the damage. For instance, if you have a party to go to and you fear you may overeat, try eating before you go, so you won’t be hungry when you get there. If you are starving by the time you get home from work, take a healthy snack to eat on the drive home. Always keep healthy snacks available, at home, at work and in the car. Small changes made on a daily basis can keep you motivated and make a big difference in your weight loss efforts.

REFERENCES American College of Sports Medicine: Self-Esteem, Support Key to Realistic Weight Loss

Weight Loss For All: Weight Loss Motivation

National Institute of Health: Daily Food and Activity Diary

Article reviewed by demand68117 Last updated on: Jul 10, 2010

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Here is a Tip from Brenda, a Plexus Ambassador.

TIP of the Day:) BRENDA'S TOP WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGIES!! By Plexus Ambassador and Women’s Health Specialist Brenda Eastwood, RNCP

1. Do not consume ANY aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet or Spoonful). Aspartame doesn’t have calories but one of its ingredients (the amino acid phenylalanine) blocks the production of serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter (chemical message) that controls your cravings for food. High calorie carbohydrate-rich snacks will help boost serotonin levels so the more aspartame you consume the more carbs you crave to help boost the serotonin and the fatter you get.

2. Sit down, slow down and enjoy your food. Food eaten quickly has just as many calories as food eaten slowly, but you will enjoy it more. Wanting more food has a lot to do with not “savoring it the first time round” or not giving your body enough time to realize that it is no longer hungry.

3. Avoid eating after 7:30 PM (unless you suffer with low blood sugar and need a protein snack before bed). Optimum fat-burning periods usually occur from the evening meal (no later than 7:30 PM) to breakfast at around 7 AM. Normally, during this sleep/fast period, the body switches to fat burning by around 1 AM, as long as insulin is not elevated along the way. How is insulin elevated? By eating carbohydrate food. And the higher the carbohydrate content of the food, the more insulin is produced. Insulin takes sugar out of your blood and takes it to your cells for burning as energy. If you don’t need the energy, then the sugar is turned to fat.

4. Protein should be the first food into your mouth in the morning. Protein stimulates glucagon which is a hormone that retrieves fat out of storage. Whereas, if the first food in your mouth is a carbohydrate, you signal for insulin which can cause your body to go into fat storing mode.

5. Alcohol in any quantity inhibits the metabolism of fats. The liver must detoxify the alcohol before it can attend to the burning of fats, and this process slows fat metabolism by about a third. What I have found by joyful experimentation is that small amounts of alcohol daily is worse for the weight loss process than the same small amounts divided over two to three days per week. In other words, if you wanted to have a glass of wine daily, you would be better off to have 2 glasses of wine each day over 2 days per week or 3 days if you are prepared to lose weight more slowly.

6. Use your non-dominant hand when eating. If you are right handed then try using your fork with your left hand. Using your non-dominant hand while eating forces you to eat more slowly and it makes you focus on holding the fork properly. Since you will be eating at a slower pace your body will be able to properly give you the "full" signal before you overeat.

7. Ruin your food; yes I said "ruin your food". When you are out at a restaurant or even at home and you are eating meal and start to feel full, pour ketchup, salt, pepper, or any other food deterrent over the remainder of your meal so that way you will not finish the meal just to finish it.

8. Find a picture of yourself at your heaviest and place it on your refrigerator door. Putting the picture of yourself on your fridge will definitely stop you from grabbing that not-so-healthy snack. The picture is a visual reminder of why you are watching calories in the first place.

9. Wear tight clothes. We all know that when we are wearing tight jeans or tight pants the last thing we want to do is go eat. Wearing tight pants will easily remind you of which foods to eat, and how much. (Plus the bloated belly feeling in tight pants, not so appealing)

10. Drink water or eat soup before a meal. One thing that water and soup have in common is that water is as you know 100% water, and soup is mostly water. Drinking a lot of water or eating soup before a meal tricks your brain into thinking you’re full even though it is just water weight. Next time you are out to eat order the low calorie soup such as minestrone, vegetable or chicken noodle or down a glass of water before eating.

WOW!!!! These are FABULOUS TIPS, alot that I'd never even heard before! Now that we have been armed with information, LET'S DO THIS!!!