It can be hard to get or maintain the motivation for dieting – IF we lose sight of our true reasons for doing it. In this article I’d like to share 2 tips that can increase your motivation to stick to your diet and achieve the healthy body and lifestyle you truly desire.
Refusing To Settle For Less Than The Best In Your Life
One way to achieve true motivation for dieting is to go at it from the perspective of refusing to settle for anything less than the best for yourself in your life. This is about deciding that you deserve the best – you deserve a fantastic body, excellent health, high levels of energy – and you’ll settle for nothing less.
Most people settle for less in their life; they don’t make their health a priority, and so they suffer both in their health and with weight problems. By deciding to go on a healthy diet, you are refusing to settle for this in your life. It doesn’t matter if until now you’ve not made health a priority in your life. The moment you make the change – the moment you decide that you deserve nothing but the best in your life, which includes having excellent levels of health and energy – and the moment you act on that, from that moment on you are no longer someone who is willing to settle for less than you deserve in your life.
Dieting is about far more than simply losing weight – it’s a statement of who you are and what you are prepared to accept in your life. Chose to diet because you deserve the best in your life, and because you refuse to settle for anything less.
Thinking Long Term: Chose Diets That Work For You
If you take the above perspective – that the purpose of going on a diet is to enjoy the best for yourself in life in terms of health, physical appearance, and so on – then it’s also important to take a long term perspective on your diet.
Most people go on a diet simply to lose weight, and often choose highly restrictive diets that they find difficult and don’t like very much, because they want to lose weight as quickly as possible. The problem with this approach is that it isn’t sustainable. You may lose weight, but a highly restrictive diet isn’t something you can maintain long term – so inevitably you’ll gain weight again as soon as you come off of it.
The perspective that works – and that will motivate you and allow you to sustain both your ideal weight, is to find diets that work for you and fit your lifestyle. What this means is that you think long term, and select a diet that you think you could sustain as part of your lifestyle. The question to ask yourself is “could I stick to this diet for the next 5 years or more?”
Refusing to settle for less than the best in your life is about putting your health first – as opposed to simply wanting to lose weight. By choosing diets that are sustainable and that you believe you can maintain as a part of your lifestyle, you’ll find it easier to maintain your motivation because its FAR easier to stick to a diet when you actually enjoy it. What this means is taking some time to research various diets, and finding one that best fits your personality and lifestyle preferences.
This doesn’t mean you have to stick to one diet for your whole life – you’ll want to continually improve it as you find more of what suits you best in your life, and you may end up trying several diets until you find the diet (or combination of diets) that works best for you. It’s a worthwhile process however because it will make the process of losing weight, keeping it off, and living a healthy long term lifestyle a smoother and more enjoyable process, as opposed to a restrictive battle of grit and willpower which is unlikely to last long term.
Refuse to settle for less than you deserve in your life, and find diets that work best for you. Doing these two things can help you sustain you long term motivation for dieting, and achieve the lasting weight loss success you truly deserve.
