Weight Loss Motivation Tips: Recovering Well
 Part of the problem when you begin a weight loss routine is that it feels like this enormous mountain that you have to conquer without making a mistake.
You can feel the pressure of the commitment on yourself.
Every time you don’t stick to the plan and you fail it feels like you have let yourself down. A normal reaction to this is to go to the opposite extreme and completely pig out on food, or basically write off the rest of your exercise for the week. Have you ever said, “I’ll start again on Monday…”, and how often have not started again?
I want you to look at things differently from today, with these tools we are going to get you to develop an unbreakable iron will that will withstand the thunder and rain but right now it’s probably a bit like an elastic band, a little flexible.
With this in mind I would like you to realize that circumstances will come along that will pull you off your plan and you will fall off the wagon. It’s not ok, and I don’t want you to accept it, I just want you to realize that it will happen, so come prepared.
I am going to give you a tool that will use the creativity of your mind to your advantage rather than allowing it to find creative ways to get out this plan.
As a human being we are blessed with an incredible ability to problem solve. Since you were born you have been exercising that muscle between your ears trying to figure out ways to get over your problems, whether it was getting away with bunking from school or getting your folks to buy you a bicycle, you were constantly thinking about how to get it done. We are now going to focus this impressive power on staying on your routine.
When you fall off your routine I want you to pay attention to what happened and what caused it, then you are going to creatively come up with a mitigating plan so it doesn’t happen again. And you will be doing this every day.
Let me give you a few examples, I injure myself a lot and this always stopped my programs dead in their tracks. So as a mitigation I did two things, I swapped my sprinting to cycling which prevented a lot of injuries, I also researched on the web and found a program on dynamic movement, which is the next evolution of warming up. This balanced my body and I cut down a lot more injuries.
Another example is I would just sleep in instead of getting up and going to gym, my blankets were snug and warm and it was cold outside. I used to love that drifting feeling as I would slip in and out of sleep. I was an expert at talking myself out of going to gym. So as a mitigation I found a gym partner. Not just anyone, I found the most dedicated, scary, focused gym partner I could find. The snug warm blankets were nothing compared to the terror of the repercussions of missing my gym workout.
If losing weight is a priority and you give it importance in your life, every little sidetrack and hurdle will have a creative solution that you can use to stick on your plan. Getting sidetracked once is way better than falling off the plan completely. Use as much creative potential as you can, make your mitigation plans fun and scary and interesting.
This will work for you in three ways:
- You will start taking power and responsibility for your actions
- You will constantly looking to make your routines easier to stick too and more pleasant
- You will keep this top of mind and think about it a lot.
You may find that this is eventually a crutch you can let go of, and as soon as you get passed the gravity of the first few weeks you can let go of this tool, however if it works for you, keep it as long as you can. Try it out; this could be the catalyst that propels you through your program.
P.S. You may find yourself resisting implementing your own plan, for instance if you choose to make a personal sacrifice of something if you don’t stick to it. That’s ok; just go back to your decision as to whether actually losing the weight is important or not to you. Weigh that up against your plan and see if you can look at the mitigating plan in another light.
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