You should reward yourself as you achieve goals along the way when following a weight loss program. It will give you the incentive to carry on and make you feel good about your body.
I am not suggesting that you reward yourself with a whole lot of bad food but rather something more effective such as a new piece of clothing in the smaller size that marks a stage in your weight-loss program where you have made another positive achievement.
It is important that you reward yourself and feel good about what you have done because the better you feel about yourself the more likely you will be to continue with the program you have chosen.
For many people it is a lack of self worth that caused them to start gaining weight in the first place so a reversal of this mindset can be a very powerful stimulant for getting back into shape.
It is more important that you feel good about yourself rather than being concerned what others think. By rewarding yourself in one way or another you are taking your self worth to a higher level and that is extremely important to your success not only with your weight reduction but every other aspect of your life.
Each time you get closer to your optimum body weight you are benefiting as a whole with improved health and well-being and these rewards that you give yourself along the way are significant reminders of what you have achieved and they are very powerful incentives for bigger and better things.
Never underestimate the impact that this can have on your ability to succeed with a whole new direction in life starting from the inside out.
It doesn’t even need to be something that you have to spend money on even just taking time out for a while and considering what you have achieved and congratulating yourself with what you have done.