Staying Motivated

Staying motivated on a slimming diet can be hard. Especially after the initial first few weeks weight loss.

A few helpful tips:

• ·         Plan your eating plan and shopping week ahead
• ·         Always have your diet food in the house so you won’t be tempted to eat non diet plan foods
• ·         Remember your original reason for dieting
• ·         Keep a photo diary
• ·         Imagine yourself fitting into a new item of clothing and looking slim
• ·         Track the food you eat every day
• ·         Join a support website like fitday 
• ·         Weigh yourself weekly not daily
• ·         Realise your eating triggers
• ·         Have a picture of yourself looking fat on your biscuit tin fridge, or temptation area
• ·         Have smell tin containing strong smelling items like ginger, cloves or a tissue  impregnated with  perfume.
• ·         Feeling peckish when you’ve eaten all you should have already? Clean your teeth.
• ·         Chew gum if you feel peckish between meals
• ·         Drink some water, water can make you feel full
• ·         If you haven’t stuck to your diet don’t make it worse by going for broke; just get back on to your diet a.s.a.p.
• ·         Reward yourself with a non food item, i.e. bubble bath, massage, or meet up with a friend
• ·         Think who would most like you to stay overweight and diet to spite them