On the road to weight loss, fitness, and health, you can easily become discouraged. In fact, discouragement is what leads many people to give up when they may have been near a point of significant progress and encouragement in their program.
Here are six points of encouragement to help keep your spirits high on your road to weight loss, fitness, and health.
1. It does get better -- and often very quickly! Many people who are significantly overweight or have been sedentary for a long time, find any activity, even walking a few hundred feet, to be very difficult and uncomfortable. Be encouraged, many physiological changes happen very quickly once you start moving. Walking, for example, starts getting easier and more comfortable within a couple of weeks. Keep moving, every day will be a little better!
2. The visible signs of progress in a weight loss program are often very slow to come. Healthy weight loss takes time, which can be very discouraging. Be encouraged to know that for each day that you exercise and eat healthy foods in moderate quantities, you have made progress. It might not be measurable that day, but you have made progress.
3. The whole idea behind physical training is that you push your body to do a little more than it's comfortable with and it responds by making physical and physiological changes. These changes make you capable of doing a little more with less discomfort. Be encouraged!
4. Keep records of your progress. Every day write down the positive changes you've noticed and also keep a record of the exercise you do every day. Write down what you did, how long you did it, and any thoughts about your exercise that day. Keep a running total of your minutes. You can look back at what you've done with a great sense of accomplishment and you'll be motivated to do more.
5. Daily exercise will change your life! I believe God designed humans to be active on a daily basis. Why? because when you are, lots of good things happen:
- you're healthier
- you feel better and have more energy
- you're less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, etc.
- you sleep better
- you have a better outlook on life
- your relationships with people are enhanced
- your skin looks healthier
- you are sick less
- your immune system is stronger
- you lose fat
- you gain toned, lean muscle
- you look healthier
6. Progress and improvement generate encouragement. You can progress and improve and be encouraged to do more. Tomorrow morning, put on your walking shoes and take a walk, even if it's just a few minutes. The next day, do it again -- progress and improve.
Source: eDiets.com
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This post makes me laugh because it's so true! Each day I have to tell myself I will see the results, and i tell myself my butt will get smaller in a few weeks! I was getting in the shower and saw the backside of me and was quite shocked at how sad it has become- I actaully shrieked! So that is my motivation to keep going!! I love this page- it has great pointers and motivation!
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