Finding the Motivation to Lose Weight Yet Again

It is amazing just how many people commit themselves to a weight-loss plan, having dieted many times before and never managing to have any success. You would think that finding the motivation to lose weight yet again would be hard to come by, but it seems that people aren't lacking motivation, but rather the tools that are needed to maintain a healthy weight. It is relatively easy to declare that as soon as the New Year arrives you intend to lose weight. You may even be able to stick to a calorie-controlled diet for awhile, but eventually you grow tired of eating the same food and restricting yourself, which is when you usually give up.

The trouble is that you often regain all the weight you worked so hard to lose in the first place. This makes you feel bad about yourself, because you hate the way you look and you're fed up with not being in control of your weight. It is embarrassing to be in a situation where you are once again overweight, having received so many compliments on your previous weight loss. Somewhere in the back of your mind there is a voice telling you that you know you can lose weight and that, eventually, when you can be bothered, you will do something about it. You just need to find the right time, which is why so many people go on a diet in the New Year, as they see it as a fresh start.

There's certainly no point attempting to lose weight if you don't have any motivation, as you simply won't bother to stick to a diet properly. This will affect your weight loss and if nothing goes to plan, you may become disheartened and comfort yourself with food, even though this just leaves you feeling more miserable. You therefore have to consider the reasons why you want to lose weight and give yourself sensible goals to aim for. If you focus on what you want to achieve from losing weight, you may find it easier to keep going on those days when you feel down and are thinking about quitting.

Good reasons to want to lose weight include for the sake of your health and so you can feel more confident about the way you look. Losing weight will give you a chance to do all the things that being overweight or obese is stopping you from doing, and so you need to stay focused on achieving your goals so that you can fit into smaller clothes and run a marathon, if that is what you want. You also have to go about weight loss in a sensible way. Clearly, if you have gone on various diets in the past that have helped you shift your excess weight, but not enabled you to keep the weight off, you may need a different plan of action.

Rather than concentrating on rapid weight loss that you achieve by more-or-less starving yourself, you should aim for sustainable weight loss, as losing one or two pounds a week means you can still feed yourself properly. If you learn to control your calorie intake whilst losing weight, it will be much easier for you to do the same thing once you reach your weight-loss goal, so that you can keep the weight off. Making time for exercise will also help you maintain a healthy weight, which is why you should get more active at the same time as making changes to your diet. Ultimately, if you're motivated enough to succeed; you will.