Yes I care! No I don’t!
Do you ever wonder if you really care about your weight or your fitness level?
To get past this roadblock, raise the importance of your goal and make it matter.
You can also boost your motivation to stay on a diet plan by making the outcome a lot more important.
Here’s how to do that: Make a list of all the ways your weight affects your life. For example, is it hurting your health or your energy? Maybe it’s harming your self-esteem.
Does your weight struggle affect the ways you cope with emotions or manage stress? Do you wish you could wear nicer clothes or at least fit into the ones in your closet?
On a scale of 1 to 10, rate each of these issues based on how much they bother you or affect your life. Convince yourself that these issues are so important that you must see changes in them.
Then push their importance to an 8 or a 9 on the scale. Make them matter by focusing on how much you’d like to see improvement.
Today’s assignment (my answers are in blue)
1. Make a list of ways that being overweight bothers you. Using the scale of 1 to 10, rate each of these issues based on how much they affect you.
Can’t fit into my favorite jeans – 6
Stomach sticks out – 6
Feel like I look old and sloppy – 6
Feel sluggish, have low energy – 7
2. Now raise the importance of each of them and mentally push the level even higher. Write the new numbers here.
Fit into jeans – 8
Stomach sticks out – 9
Look old and sloppy – 9
Have energy – 9
3. Remind yourself that your weight bothers you a lot and you can’t wait to see improvement. Write a few notes about this.
Being at a healthy weight is always worth it.
I look forward to being in a department store dressing room and feeling proud of my body!
Excerpted from Day 42 in the book 100 Days of Weight Loss