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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Making Your Mind Up To Lose Weight
Goal-setting, positive self-talk, and self-esteem are all very important aspects of physical fitness and weight loss. How you feel about yourself can have a huge impact when it comes to starting (and staying on) an exercise and weight loss regime.
Just like you can reshape your body with diet and exercise, you can also reshape your self-image. An excellent way to improve your weight loss mind-set is to begin to create realistic goals. When you meet the goals you set, you will feel better about yourself. The higher your weight is, the lower your self-esteem tends to plunge. Meeting even the smallest goal, such as walking an extra 10 minutes each day renews your self-esteem.
Defining and meeting your goals will be a huge boost to your self-image. Additionally, goal-setting can improve other aspects of your life. It will help you understand what is important to you, such as making lowering your blood pressure your top goal, or, simply being able to walk your dog an extra block or two within a few weeks. Goals will also keep you motivated, so you will then be more likely to make and meet new, more difficult goals. Perhaps other challenges in your life will begin to seem less daunting when you see what you can really do!
It is important to always write goals down - big or small, long-term or short-term. Just put it in writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but you could send yourself an e-mail, make notations in your calendar or journal, or simply write them on a piece of notebook paper. By doing this, you get the feeling you are making a contract with yourself which makes you less likely to forget or ignore them.
The most important piece of advice in goal-setting? Stay realistic. Setting unachievable, unrealistic goals is far more harmful than helpful. Not only will you suffer trying to meet them, the discouragement you'll feel when you inevitably don't meet them will leave you down in the dumps. Then it will be too easy to get so down on yourself that you may not even want to try anymore. Just keep it real and that won't happen.
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