How to motivate yourself to lose weight? 8 tips to motivate yourself to go on a diet

Lack of motivation is the main cause of failure in a diet. There are always false excuses not to start and push back to the next day ... See you next week. Coach Sebastien Leroux gives us his 8 tips to boost your motivation and finally start losing weight.
1. Think about why
Have you already listed all the motivations that drive you to want to lose weight? It can be very beneficial to put them on paper to increase your level of motivation. Take at least 15min to think about all aspects of your life that would be improved. Some examples :
Be more seductive / seductive
Take off from complexes in swimsuits
To be able to wear the clothes you want / to fit in old jeans
Being healthier
Participate in a running / physical challenge
Complete this list with goals that are unique to you. You can read it later when you have a desire to nibble or not want to go to your workout ... Guaranteed deterrent effect!
2. Define an action plan
No improvement occurs without a change in our habits. If you want results you will have to go through a certain number of changes (which do not necessarily mean sacrifices).
To lose weight, you need to focus your attention primarily on two things: nutrition and sports (to which we could add sleep). So, define in writing all the efforts you think you can make on these aspects, and turn them into concrete changes in your everyday life.
For example: If you feel like you do not have time to exercise, get up 30 minutes earlier every morning; Decrease the time spent on social networks / watch television for physical activities; Remove some harmful foods from your eating habits; Learn a new recipe for cooking a week; Any positive change in your daily life is good to take!
3. Do not look for easy options
More and more people are resting their hopes of weight loss on easy solutions, thinking to find in them a method to lose weight without effort. Be careful, diet programs and dietary supplements can be your ally as your worst enemy.
All is not to throw. Used properly, the active ingredients contained in the capsules to lose weight, including appetite suppressant, can actually help to give a feeling of fullness that reduces cravings snacking. You have already seen advertisements and reviews on Anaca3, the brand of slimming capsules, or on the program Like I like ... It's true that it's tempting!
But do not be fooled, only a rebalancing of food and regular physical activity will have lasting effects on the achievement of your goals. Having the line and being healthy requires efforts over time and not just on one-off periods. Choosing the easy options to motivate yourself is to back down to better jump because one day or the other the efforts will have to come from you.
4. Learn not to listen to each other
This advice is a bit counter-current to what we usually hear (you have to learn how to listen to yourself, how to listen to your body, etc.) but you will understand.
Efforts, our brain does not like that much. He prefers all that is usual and will generally encourage you to stay in your comfort zone. Therefore, when going to play sports it may give you a warning that you will vulgarly translate by: laziness. This is even more true at the very beginning, after a long period of inactivity.
So you must be able to overcome the indications that your brain can give by equating the fact that the beginning is always the most difficult. For example, it is common not to have the motivation to go to the gym, but once you are there this feeling has usually disappeared.
The good practice for those who lack motivation to exercise is to establish a weekly routine with slots dedicated to sports. If you feel lazy, tell yourself that once this 1st stage passed you will experience pleasure, and especially a great satisfaction once the session ended.
5. Do not focus on the scale
Your efforts and the management of your diet are not just a number on the scale. Many people are stressed about weighing themselves and seeing that they have lost nothing or "worse" that they have taken a few hundred grams. This is the best way to become demotivated when you feel like you're doing a lot of work.
In fact, different reasons may explain weight gain: stress, lack of sleep, menstruation, muscle gain, water retention, etc. This is not a drama, and weight gain is not necessarily a catch of fat ... Drink 2L of water and you will automatically take 2kg.
You must never be discouraged, efforts will always pay. Rather than taking the weigh-in as an indicator of physical progress, prefer the photos! Take a picture of yourself underwear before your diet, and repeat it every month. You will notice the physical changes before / after, whatever the number says on the scale.
6. Plan healthy snacks
Regular snacking is often responsible for weight gain. In fact, when we try to lose weight we concentrate most often on meals: we try to eat balanced, not too fat, not too sweet, etc.
But if you give your body fewer calories (= energy) during the meal, it may take a few hours after ... What drives you to nibble to get away from hunger. If you hold on, you will create repeated frustrations, and if you creak you will find something fast in your closets and set your sights on biscuits, breakfast cereals or chocolate.
By providing healthy snacks when you shop, you increase your level of motivation because you will not be afraid of snacking. You allow yourself to crack between meals, but a healthy crack! Here are some examples of snacks:
Vegetables (baby carrots, radishes, cherry tomatoes, etc.)
Fruits (apple, pear, banana, etc.)
Nuts (fines, nuts, etc.)
7. Fix challenges
Nothing is more challenging than setting challenges and rewarding yourself in return. There are hundreds of possible challenges depending on your specific goals and / or where you know in advance that you risk a decrease in motivation.
If sport is your weak point, challenge yourself in the short and medium term to maintain a good level of motivation. Some examples :
Do a little more each session: run 2 minutes more, increase the speed ...,
Test new sports,
To impose a minimum number of steps per day (download a pedometer application on smartphone),
Realize challenges with the same exercise to perform every day (squats, abs, board). Do not hesitate to train your friends in this type of challenge.
If you have the opportunity, make these challenges public, for example via your social networks or by talking to your loved ones. This will give you extra motivation to get results. Once the challenge is raised, reward yourself with a good meal, a new piece of clothing, etc.
8. Do not set your expectations too high
All work deserves pay ... When one makes efforts one hopes to see results in return, it is normal! In the case of a diet, the results are sometimes random. You may be going through periods of stagnation where you will feel like you are not going any further and all this work will have been useless. Remember that it's normal, do not be discouraged!
Setting goals in terms of lost pounds is not recommended (see tip 5), yet most women do. Goal 5kg in 1 week, 10kg in 1 month ... It's way too much! A healthy food rebalancing should allow to lose between 700g and 1kg per week. Beyond 5kg lost per month, there is a risk of deficiencies.
My recommendation: put in place all good practices of a healthy lifestyle and see the results without waiting for miracles. No effort is ever lost, even if the results on the scale or your physical change are disappointing, always tell yourself that at least you are in better health. You have eaten healthily, you have played sports ... In short, you have taken care of yourself!

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