Motivation or rather lack of it, is one of the key problems in weight loss. People who need to lose weight know that they NEED to do it, they know they SHOULD do it and they most often know HOW to do it.
There are countless diets and weight loss courses available on the marker, video's, trainers..etc. but still the majority of people find it difficult to achieve their target weight. Why is that? Why if they know they NEED to, SHOULD and HOW to fall short of the finish line?
The problem is most often not it is not about the lack of resources or the knowledge. With reasonable effort you can get information on how to achieve weight loss. All you have to do is Google Healthy weight loss and a million things come up. So what happens?
They get all the information and all the successful tips to lose weight, it's like something really stops them. Something puts a brick wall in front of their achievements. This something is LACK of MOTIVATION.
Weight loss is hard enough for most people and it requires a good deal of motivation not only to start but more importantly to continue even after the optimal goal is met. This is the main reason that so many weight loss diets and programs come on the market every year. People start a diet, start a program but never seem to have the motivation to finish. Then something slowly starts to happen, the weight comes back, the need to lose it becomes even stronger and the people start again. It is an evil cycle, which is so unhealthy for your body.
The key to losing weight is to WANT it badly enough and to find the motivation to carry it through. That motivation will be different for each person. For my client Leann, it is to be there for her daughter when she gets older. For my Dad, it is to keep the medications away. For me, it is to never go back to the way I use to live my life.
Everyone has there motivation but everyone doesn't have that drive to get to the end result. So I challenge you to really look deep inside yourself to find what can keep you going.
"The biggest secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." -Oprah Winfrey
There are only 2 choices; make progress or make excuses. -Ellen Mikesell
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