Motivating yourself when you know you have to lose weight but you cannot bring yourself to do it

You know that you are overweight, your family and friend tell you to lose weight all the time. You know that you are a plus size, you are constantly bombarded with images of slim models, actors and actresses, you feel frustrated, you know you want reduce weight but just cannot bring yourself to follow a program to do it.

Take a breather; you are not the only one
There are millions of others who are just like you. Why you cannot bring yourself to do it is because there is no immediate threat which you are experiencing right now because of being overweight. Sure you might experience shortness of breath when you climb the stairs or doing any physical activity but that is all there is.
Our bodies are condition to respond when there is a danger; when there is no evident danger our bodies see no reason to do something about it. Especially which is not in our routine or does not please us. That is why million of us know we should lose weight but many of us fail to do something about it.
Here the key is to motivate our mind in thinking that there is a danger which is evident and if you do not do anything about it now, it will be very late. In order to do that you need to motivate your mind through following:

• Future reality check:

  Take a paper and make a future reality check, in order to do that, you do some research about what health complication, obesity can lead to? What will happen if you continue on your lazy and lethargic life style?

• Make a chart of comparison:

  List down all the food you are eating and all the food you should be eating, go on line and get the calorie count of each item of food. Make a chart of comparison of what is your calorie intake is now and what your calorie intake will be if you take healthy food. To give this chart an extra kick, add up all the calories on each diet. Download a picture of human fat and print it in small size, Make 100 calories = 1 human fat picture. Paste the picture in form of tower in front of what you are consuming now and what you will consuming then, the difference will motivate you after a visual realization will struck on the amount of fat you can avoid just by eating healthy.

The above information will be acting as catalyst in motivating you. If you put this informational chart in your kitchen it will help you to resist next time your hand reach out for junk food, the information which will be relayed by this chart will act as a warning signal to our brain, which will then coax you to reach out for a more healthy option.

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