Don’t Just Lose Weight To Look Good

Losing weight is a challenge for most people. A big part of what challenges people so much throughout this journey is having the wrong motives. If you’re just trying to lose weight to look good, you’re not doing it for the right reasons and you’re likely to either lose motivation or go off the deep end.

Having more positive motivation for your weight loss journey will also help you stick to your new lifestyle and maintain all the hard work you’ve put in. It’s hard to keep the weight off after you’ve hit your goal weight and stopped whatever crazy fad diet you tried. But when your goal is to live a healthier lifestyle, it’s easier to maintain.

Let’s explore the topic of diet motivation and why just dieting to make yourself look “better” doesn’t work and is bad for your overall mental health.

Why You Shouldn’t Just Lose Weight To Look Good

You Already Look Good

Starting a diet because you’re unhappy with the way you look is a common thing, but it can be detrimental to your mental health. You’re beautiful the way you are. If you want to lose weight to feel better, to improve your quality of life, or to enjoy better health, go for it. Otherwise, run far away.

This motivation leads to eating disorders.

When you become obsessed with chasing a certain appearance and a certain weight, it never ends up seeming enough. If you’re idealizing those scrawny models who have an entirely different build than you and are convinced that you’ll stop at nothing until you look like them, you’re likely on the fast track to an eating disorder.

You have to understand what your body is capable of and love it for how it looks. Lose weight because you want to be good to your body, not because you want it to look a certain way.

If Healthiness Is Your Motivation, The Sky’s The Limit

With weight loss being the motivation, there’s an endpoint and a goal that, once met, is over. You can’t just keep losing weight; it’s not healthy. But, when healthiness is your goal and motivation, the sky is the limit. You can always do more physical activity and exercise, develop new healthy routines, and do other things to promote better health in your life.

Healthy motivation also helps you stick to your healthy goals better. It’s easier to keep this lifestyle going than to have the goal of losing weight, doing some crazy diet, and try to keep the weight off.

Losing Weight For Your Health Promotes Positive Mental Health

When your motivations for losing weight are positive (like to better your health or have more energy), it’s better for your mental health. If your motivation for losing weight is simply to look better, it’s coming from a negative, detrimental, and self-deprecating place. It causes you to view losing weight as a solution to your problems and a fix for your confidence.

However, if your motivations are coming from a positive place, like wanting to better your health, then you’re more likely to make positive changes. It also makes it easier for you to stick to your efforts and keep up your new positive lifestyle changes. Motivation is key to initiating and maintaining a positive life change.

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Losing weight is hard enough, but it’s almost impossible without the right motivation. The right motivation is everything and key to keeping up all the positive changes you’ve made. Knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do when it comes to burning fat and losing weight. Being healthy is about taking action to do more of the right things, and fewer of the wrong things every day.

Did you know your exercise routine may actually be hindering your weight loss efforts? There are certain mistakes that are easy to make which can cause your weight loss to slow down and even cause you to gain weight!  Download my free report, Top 5 Exercise Mistakes to help you avoid these weight loss mistakes so you get the results you deserve.