30 Lessons from 30 Pounds of Weight Loss: Part 2, How To Stay Motivated for Workouts

The cliche statement of ‘long term weight loss is best’ and/or the cliche of ‘it will take time to reach your goal’ is 100% true, and in my first 10 lessons, one of the success points was that I gave myself over 5 months to achieve my goal.

But I wanted to go a few layers deeper, HOW do stay motivated over 3,4,5 months of training? Or if you’re reading this and you are someone who needs to lose 70,80, or even 100+ pounds, how do you stay consistent for that length of time?

Well, keep reading, because this article is for you.

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30 Lessons from 30 Pounds of Weight Loss: Part 1

Back in January I received an invite to one of my close friends weddings. The save the date told me that the party was going down in the middle of June and that I needed to bring my dancing shoes.

The dancing is neither here, nor there, but I felt was important for the story, haha!

Like many, when I received my invitation, I thought about what I was going to wear. I pulled out a few of my 'go-to’s’ as far as fancy-pants, dress up clothes, and much to my dismay, the pants didn’t fit.

I’m not talking about sucking it in.

I’m talking about stealing one of my wife’s hair ties and wrapping it around the fly of the pants to bungee those suckers shut.

Alas, my weight-loss motivation began!

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