When you want to achieve ANY goal it's good to focus on what you want to do and really go for it.

But sometimes the idea of weight loss is just not enough to keep us motivated through the long commitment required of eating less and moving more.

So you have to look at what would motivate you enough and it can help to take the focus off your weight - which is really just a figure on  a scale - and move it onto what you are ultimately trying to achieve.

Maybe a "bursting with health" program would make you feel more inclined to want to change your habits? to drink more water? to eat better? to keep yourself in tip-top condition?

Or how about a campaign to look drop-dead gorgeous by feeding your body the right foods and micro-nutrients, looking after your skin, hair and nails, sculpting your body millimetre by millimetre with the right exercise?

Or even a goal to run a 10k race every month next year?

And the thing with these goals is that weight loss becomes a by-product of achieving something much bigger and more valuable for yourself. You're taking the focus off scales and calories and putting it on caring for yourself, eating the right energy and life-enhancing foods and/or on getting the fittest you've ever been.

So not only do you become slimmer, you end up with a whole heap of life-enhancing changes most of which you won't know until you experience them. (Things like better confidence and self-esteem, sleeping better, getting fewer colds and other infections).

It may be worth thinking about as you set your resolutions in 2007 to lose weight for the umpteenth time. Is that really all you want?


Copyright 2006,  Janice Elizabeth Small

 

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