Healthy weight loss can be quite difficult and challenging with periods. It is important to retain your motivation during weight loss. We explain how you do that!
Losing weight and maintaining your motivation is difficult
You can easily keep the weight off during the first week. You feel good and are full of motivation. However, a few weeks later it is not all that easy anymore. You have now lost a few pounds and your motivation has fallen. You want to eat again, you can do it again, you've finally lost weight!
While losing weight, maintaining motivation is difficult for many people. By using a 'Slim file' you can better retain your motivation during weight loss!
A Slim file: lose weight and maintain your motivation
You can better retain your motivation with a Slim file. This is a document (or booklet) in which you record your complete waste process. The most important thing is that you consult and supplement your Slim file daily during weight loss, so that you are constantly informed of your own process.
Write down what keeps you busy while losing weight
One of the first things you can record in your Slim file is your feelings. How do you feel while losing weight? What have you been through, what was difficult and what went well? And why? Here you can reflect on your day as you would in a diary, but with regard to losing weight.
By keeping track of this you get a picture of your feelings and how you react to this during weight loss. Do you start to eat a lot during periods of stress? Or do you notice that you are a social eater? Then you can do something about it.
Set your target weight
It's easy to say you want to lose 10 pounds, but who says it's healthy for your body? You can use your BMI to calculate what a healthy weight is for you. You are at a good weight if your BMI is between 19 and 25.
By sliding the bars in the above mentioned website you can see how much you have to lose to achieve a BMI of 22. Don't just let the BMI guide you, it's not a perfect benchmark. Follow your feeling and your mind. You can also choose to choose a nice round number such as 'under 70 kilos' or 'under 65 kilos'.
Write down how you would feel if you lost weight
This exercise provides more motivation during weight loss, especially if you repeat it often. Imagine now that with a spell you can immediately turn away all your excess kilos. How would you feel then? What would you do? How would you feel about yourself? It is good to make clear to yourself how great it would feel if you reached your goal weight.
Make sure that you get used to the idea that you have reached your perfect weight. This is how you build up your confidence and you know what you are doing it for: You always want that feeling!
Make specific goals that motivate you
Determining your goal weight is not the end of the story. To keep your motivation high during weight loss, it is important that you set fun, achievable and concrete goals towards the end goal. Reaching your goal weight is your main goal, to achieve this you have to create and achieve many sub goals.
In addition, make sure that these sub-goals are about your behavior. They must be practical and applicable. An example: "Today I don't eat sweets" or "This week I go to the gym twice" or "Tomorrow I bring the children to school by bike".
You can also opt for recurring goals such as "I go to the gym twice a week". However, the danger with this is that you get used to these goals. It is more fun to tick off a goal and set a new one. Achieving goals is enormously good for your motivation!
Read back regularly in your slim file during weight loss
Your own Slim file is a source of motivation during weight loss. You see what you have achieved in the past, how you have progressed step by step and what you have experienced while losing weight. You see the number of pounds go down. Moreover, you can be motivated by your own stories about how you will feel when you have reached your goal weight.
If you come across a motivation dip while losing weight you will read in your Slim file to boost your motivation! You can then immediately write about this again. Keep working on it, this way you keep your focus and your motivation!
After losing weight - this is how you stay on weight
Write a margin for yourself in addition to your target weight. This margin is an area where you let your weight fluctuate before you do something about it. You can agree with yourself that you always want to stay under a certain weight, or that you maintain a margin of 2 kilos. You can therefore gain two kilos before you lose weight again.
By weighing regularly you can control your weight. As soon as you see that you are breaking your own margin, you can intervene by holding a balance day or week. This way you prevent the pounds from flying again and you eventually go yo-yo.
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Keep track of tips or losing weight
You can of course keep track of your weight loss process in a file on your computer, such as in Word. You can also choose to keep it online, for example via Google Drive (an online word processor).
If you like a more hands-on approach, you can simply buy a nice book at the HEMA for example. Choose notebook (you) with blank pages and a hard cover. This way you can put all your feelings in it, and it also lasts longer than a week.
File with weight loss helps you to keep your motivation
Your own file to keep track of weight loss is a nice help during weight loss. Losing weight becomes more fun, easier and moreover you gradually get to know yourself better. Write in it what you want to say and preferably do it every day. That way you stay motivated and focused.
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