Dieting Motivation:

Enthusiasm on Auto Pilot!

Dieting motivation is the missing link between your effort and the younger looking, slim successful you.

Here's what happens:

• First few days dieting motivation runs at top level.
• 2nd week, we're already feeling a little deprived.
• 3rd week, we can just get into that red dress for the party...

and here's where the saboteur takes over. Her name is Chatterbox and she is always there to give you the wrong information.

She can ruin almost anything.

Here she goes...

• Just one glass of wine, be sociable!
• The buffet looks delicious, they have worked so hard.
• You have been good, just take a small plate.

It get's worse...

• You can start again tomorrow.
• Oops, you've blown it anyway.
• You will probably never reach your goal.

Turn your chatterbox into a friend who encourages you with positive thoughts and solid motivation for losing weight.

It is very important to be clear that this new healthy eating regime is not a self imposed torture. It's about making healthy food choices to help you lose weight. You want to be slim and you are happy with your decision. You are looking forward to fitting into all your clothes again.

Make a list of all the rewards and benefits and how you will feel when you stick to your healthy diet and lose weight. Turn the list into positive phrases like the ones below and begin every day with these thoughts or ones like them.

Give your Chatterbox a new positive dialogue!

• I can eat anything I like and I'm making healthy choices.
• Healthy food choices help me to lose weight
• I feel so good when my clothes fit me again.
• As my resolve get's bigger my waistline gets smaller.
• Why would I eat stuff that makes me fat, bloated and unhappy?
• Nothing tastes as good as slim feels!

Dieting motivation comes from thoughts of the rewards and benefits, the desires we crave. Looking younger and more attractive. Fitting into a stunning dress for a special occasion.

Keep your list of positive thoughts and look at them often. Have some cards tucked into your purse to remind you again and again of your goals. This input takes a couple of days. You might feel silly in the beginning but very soon you will have your dieting motivation on auto pilot.

One very last suggestion especially for the older women among us like me.

Try working on these positive thoughts as if you were helping someone else that you love very much.

She wants to look gorgeous in a gown for a special occasion very soon but needs to lose some weight.

How would you motivate and support her? It's amazing how much we are willing to put into helping our daughters, friends and colleagues.

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