How to develop inner motivation

If you have discovered that your weight loss motivation is outer - you don't need to wait until it becomes inner or live constantly under the pressure, in fact these are the worst 2 ways to develop inner motivation. Don't panic - you've got everything you need for inner motivation, you only need to try yourself and there is one thing that will help you on your way to great figure and health - before-now-after journal.

You already know how important is to control your nutrition and sport habits if you want to lose weight.
When something doesn't go like you wanted it is very easy to concentrate on negative result. And after some time there are so many negative thoughts that you start to think that motivation is lost. In reality motivation isn't lost, you've just surrounded yourself with the boundaries of outer motivation. You don't know how to switch to inner motivation when you need to.

If you want to learn how to switch to inner motivation - you have to learn to recognize positive results from sport exercises and right nutrition and appreciate them. It is not easy and BNA (before-now-after) journal will help you to start.

Everything you need for this journal is a notebook (or text file in computer) and some time.
1. Before
Every time you don't want to do exercises or stick to your diet stop for a moment and describe your feelings in bna journal. Your note can be very short easy - just write down your thoughts and feelings, don't analyze them. Maybe you feel tired or bored, sad or angry - write it down in the journal.

2. Now
Forget about your feelings and do the right thing (planned exercise or eating healthy meal). Think about your problems now, are they solved? Do you feel better or worse? Write down your feeling during making an effort. Once again, don't analyze, and don't blame yourself if something didn't go like you expected. Just a short note.

3. After
In the evening sit and read all your notes during the day. What didn't help you, what did? What lesson did you learn? How can you use this knowledge to prevent the problem in future?

After analyzing you will probably see that you feel much better when you behave like it was planned and the pleasure from fatty foods and undone exercises is quickly gone and you feel ashamed and guilty.

The attention to your feelings when you decide to do something is a first step on a way to inner motivation. If you write in bna journal honestly at least for 2-3 weeks, your problems with motivation will probably start to disappear and it will be much easier for you not only to lose as much weight as you want, but also live active positive life. Good luck!