Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org, and in this quick self-help segment, in about 10 minutes,

I am going to cover how to stay motivated to lose weight.

So if you're struggling to lose weight. So if you're struggling to lose weight and you've gotten on track and then you've fallen off track like so many of us do

Then this is going to be the thing for you and I'm going to give you some practical tips and why am I qualified to talk about this?

Well one of the reasons besides the fact that I study a lot of personal development material

is that I used to be overweight my whole life.

Since I was a kid growing up, through high school and through college,

I was 65 pounds overweight.

You can't tell that on me right now because after college I lost it all because I got that part of my life

handled and I use some of these techniques to keep myself motivated to lose weight.

So that's what I'm going to talk about.

And I think I have some valuable insights for you here.

So first, let's talk about why you're doing this in the first place. I think the initial motivation for why you're doing this in the first place.

I think the initial motivation for why you're losing weight

is critical, critical critical to getting you to stay motivated

because so many of us lose weight for the wrong reasons and it's not really

for the wrong reasons but it's just that the way that we justify to ourselves is not

inspiring enough you need to be inspired by what you're doing because losing weight is challenging.

And of course it's going to depend on how much your weight you're trying to lose.

If you're trying to lose five pounds of weight,

that's not a very inspiring motivational goal.

And in fact, you might struggle to lose five pounds of weight

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