So, here we are, half way through the first month of the New Year. How is your weight loss resolution going? Have you given up yet? Have you lost your diet motivation, or are you really motivated to lose weight? If you have given up on your weight loss resolution already, don’t feel too bad. I was listening to the radio yesterday, and apparently only 12% of people actually manage to stick at trying to achieve their new year resolutions! Only 12%! And that’s for all types of resolution, not just weight loss.

Those 12% are just the ones who keep on trying – I wonder how many of them actually succeed? If it’s 50%, that would mean in total only 6% of all those people who make New Year resolutions actually ever succeed in achieving them. Another fact that might make you feel better if you are trying (or have tried but failed), to lose weight, is the fact that 90% of dieters fail to lose any weight. So, is it any wonder you couldn’t lose weight either?

But does it really make it any better for you to know you are just one amongst many who failed? Even more importantly, are you disappointed with your effort, or do you really care that you failed? If you don’t care (and you’re honest about it) then you were never really committed and you never really had any intention of succeeding in the first place. You had no diet motivation. If that’s the case there’s not much hope for you. Simply paying lip service to achieving anything is a sure-fire guarantee of failure.

But wait! If 90% of dieters fail, that means 10% succeed. So, how do they do it? Why do these people succeed when so many fail? Are they super-human? I would suggest not – (if they were then it would seem reasonable to think they would not have needed to lose weight in the first place!) 

What these people have is determination, motivation and the realisation that they need to aim for a realistic goal. They set out with confidence, knowing they have set a goal they can achieve. This in itself motivates them and the whole thing becomes self-perpetuating, making it so much easier. Rather like a snowball rolling downhill the success they achieve grows and grows and begins to reflect in everything they do as they grow more and more confident. 

No-one ever lost 10lbs overnight, but anyone can lose it in ten weeks if they go about it the right way. Setting yourself a realistic, achievable weight loss goal will give you confidence. This in turn will make you motivated to lose weight. 

It’s never too late to start losing weight. All you need to do is find your diet motivation.

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