Here are 5 motivational secrets to help you STICK to your weight loss program.
1. Pay yourself.
Give a friend or loved one £500. Every day you eat healthfully (or exercise), you get £25 back. For every day you miss your target, your friend donates your £25 to your least favourite charity.
2. Create "if-then" plans. Making an if-then plan--if I get off work, then I'll go straight to the gym--makes behavior automatic so there's less chance you'll slip.
3. Compete. Setting up a contest with a friend--such as agreeing that whoever loses more weight has to pay the other--can add competitive fuel to your motivational fire.
4. Use external monitoring. Keep a written record of how wellyou're doing. (Don't forget to take progress photos...those are more meaningful than body fat measurements on inaccurate handheld scales.)
5. Make social contracts. The buddy system is powerful. Find a friend in the same boat and make an appointment to work on your task together.
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