You want to lose weight. You know you need to start eating healthier foods and working out to make that happen. So that’s what you do.

A couple days or even weeks go by and you’re going strong. You’re pumped up and feeling good about yourself.

Then for some reason, you lose all your motivation and give up.

After repeating that same process over and over again, you get to the point where you think, “why try again? I’ll just give up again anyways.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Everyone that’s tried to lose weight has been where you are. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been there myself. The last time I felt like that, I knew I had to come at things differently than I had been to get different results.

WHY MOTIVATION CAN ONLY GET YOU SO FAR

To achieve your goals, you have to get past relying on your motivation. No one is motivated every day.

The difference between someone that keeps going and someone that gives up is their mindset. Our minds can either hold us back or help us to achieve anything we want.

WEIGHT LOSS MINDSET STAGES

1. DENIAL

A person at this stage doesn’t see a problem so they can’t begin to work on the solution. They think since they drink a bottle of water a day and maybe go for a walk once a week that they are healthy.

I doubt you are stuck in this phase since you are here reading this. I know many people stuck in this phase and nothing you can say to them makes any difference. To change our lives in any area, we must first admit there is a problem.

2. CONTEMPLATION

You’ve either been here or are here right now. You know you need to change what you do to change your life.

You start researching ways to lose weight and plan to put those things into action but just can’t seem to find the motivation to move past that. You say things like, “I’ll start on Monday” or “I’ll start after l I finish the ice cream in the fridge”.

Anyone can have a dream, but if there is no daily action taking place that dream will never become a reality.

3. ACTION

You’re ready to go! There’s healthy food in the fridge and you’ve joined a gym (or plan to work out at home). And then you get to it.

This is where you are beginning to change your habits. Many people get in this phase but end up regressing back into stage 2. And if you are like me, you might have gone back and forth more times than you can count!

4. HABIT CREATION

This is the stage that you may have experienced at some point in your life and then regressed or you have never been here before.

Either way, this is where you want to be.

Many people say it takes 21 to 30 days to form a habit. Others say it’s more like 60 days. I believe 60 days is just about right.

This doesn’t mean 60 days to see results, but committing to changing your daily habits for 60 days so you stop relying on motivation alone and can keep going. It’s hard for us to start something new and thinking that we have to do it forever.

It’s overwhelming honestly.

SO WHAT CHANGES DO YOU NEED TO MAKE TO STAY CONSISTENT THIS TIME?

The answer is small changes here and there during those 60 days.

If you decide right now that you are going to start drinking just water, workout every day, give up all junk food, never eat fast food, and start preparing healthy meals only…you are just setting yourself up for failure.

How do I know this? Because I’ve been there. I would make all those changes at once and do good for a while. Then I would break one of them and then two. And after that, I felt like I failed so why not just give up?

And that’s exactly the cycle I was stuck in. 

Until I changed my mindset. Instead of looking for immediate results that were unrealistic, I decided I needed to take things slow and see what happened.

I didn’t feel deprived this time. I didn’t feel overwhelmed. And I did something I’d never done before. I stayed consistent.

And I was seeing results the whole time so it helped me to keep going.

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What mindset stage are you in? Let me know in the comments below!

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