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Author:
Jeff Smith

How do you maintain your weight loss motivation beyond the
first 5 or 10 pounds?

We've all been there, you make incredible progress in your
weight loss program, only to fall "off the wagon" a few
days later because you lose that initial weight loss
motivation.

It's true, your mental attitude is 90% of the battle in
achieving rapid weight loss.

Here are 6 weight loss motivation tips you can use next
time you hit the wall in your weight loss program:

Weight Loss Motivation Tip 1: Set realistic goals. By
planning to lose 10 pounds each week, you are setting
yourself up for a letdown.

Weight Loss Motivation Tip 2: Set flexible goals.
Understand that you will lose more weight in the first
2-weeks of your weight loss program than you will after.


Weight Loss Motivation Tip 3: Have a support system
in place. If you can set goals with a friend or support
group, you will have more motivation to succeed.

Weight Loss Motivation Tip 4: Make sure your weight
loss program includes exercise. Exercise results in
positive chemicals being released in your brain which helps
with staying positive and achieving maintaining weight loss
motivation.

Weight Loss Motivation Tip 5: Have a strategy to combat
stress. Stress is the 1 cause of uncontrollable activity
in our lives. Practice meditation as part of your
weight loss program.

Weight Loss Motivation Tip 6: Set goals beyond losing
weight. Set goals linked with happiness, feeling better,
looking better, having more energy - less focus on pounds
lost to overall health will give you more motivation.

Learn to deal with weight loss motivation as part of your
rapid weight loss program, you will substantially increase
your chance of long-term success.


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