Track Your Progress
In order to keep yourself motivated, you need to track your progress. I mean what better feeling is there reflect on how much weight you have lost and realize how much weight is melting off.
The first step is to decide what variables (or indications of weight-loss) you are going to track. Your goals will factor into what you are tracking, for weight loss you might track your daily calorie intake, the weight you lose (weekly/monthly), how often you exercise, and what you do when you exercise.
One good method for tracking your progress is to summarize your day in a daily log. In fact writing in a log will greatly improve your weight loss efforts. It will allow you to see what works and what doesn’t.
Recording information in a simple table provides easily reviewable numbers. The strength of this method is that it provides information easily looked back on later down the road.
There is a reason why trainers in the gym always record their clients’ progress. Writing down results really helps to track how well you are doing or how much work you need to be putting in.
So now that you are done reading all about tracking your progress; write down what your overall goals are. Take and write what information you need to track to make sure you meet your goals and how you are going to track it.