Looking better and feeling great may be their own rewards when you lose weight, but it never hurts to reward yourself for reaching goals and sticking to your eating plan. Building in incentives is a time-honored way of helping keep yourself on track. Did you pass up that piece of cheesecake at lunch? Reward yourself with a pot of fresh herbs! Did you get out and exercise for your daily half-hour? Take a luxurious bath with scented oils. Went the whole week without falling off your new routine? That calls for a big reward! Treat yourself to an evening out, or buy that book you’ve been dying to read.
Need some excuses for rewarding yourself? Try setting one of these goals to give yourself something to shoot for:
1. Weight loss goals.
Pretty traditional here – treat yourself to something special whenever you can mark off ten pounds toward your goal weight. Get a manicure to make you feel extra special.
2. Look, Ma, I dropped a whole size!
Well, that certainly calls for buying yourself something in that new size, even if it’s just a pair of new exercise sneakers!
3. Whew! I made it ALL the way through the half-hour...