I want to lose weight because I want to have a body I can show off in front of my date and be proud of! I want to go to the beach and not be the only one with my shirt on. I want to go out and play sports at the park and not worry about being on skins or tees. I want to be able to pick out the clothes I want to wear because I like the way they look, not because of the way they fit. – That was me in December of 2000. I am now in my 10th year of maintaining my healthy body. Losing weight has its share of challenges. There are psychological, emotional, physical, and life challenges involved with eating right and staying on a structured program. This is why motivation plays such an important role in your success. What motivates you? Of course, having friends and family that support you is great. Working with experts is also nice too. However, the best and most powerful motivation comes from inside of you. The motivation is your PURPOSE. By having a strong purpose and an even stronger resolve, you will fortify your will power and engage the sections of your thinking that will help guide your decisions

to achieve that goal! You will become unstoppable. Five years into maintaining my goal, I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. It runs rampant in my family on my Dad’s side so, I kind of expected it eventually. I now have an even stronger goal yet because I know the painful and deadly consequences of not maintaining my blood sugar properly. Now it’s your turn: Write down what your goal is and WHY! Try to create as many WHY reasons you can think of. Write a new one each day and write a whole paragraph about it. Visualize yourself at that goal and feel all of the emotions that result from it. Every time you have a temptation or feel discouraged, visualize the great feelings you will get from compliments, knowing you made it, buying any outfit you want (because you make any outfit look good), having tons of energy, all of it! You need to FEEL the difference. Keep a journal of how good you feel at your goal and, in a short time, your brain won’t be able to talk you out of succeeding ever again! I hope this helps you as much as it helped me!

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