When the day comes (and it usually does), when you reach a plateau and are unable to lose any more weight, try performing  this very effective motivational exercise.

Take out a sheet a of paper as shown below and write down all the benefits that you have achieved to date.Take into account all the benefits that you’ve achieved in all of the five dimensions of your health( as also shown in the diagram below).Write down major benefits, as well as all the little ones too.Allow yourself to pat yourself on the back and to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Next, refer back to my article , 12 Reasons to Lose Weight and try visualizing what it would be like to wake up in the morning and discover that  you had magically “won your goal weight”. After doing that, you should now be able to write down all the new positive things that you would feel, as if you were at your newly found goal weight.This exercise has helped many of our patients to jog their motivation and help get them off the “dreaded” plateau.

BENEFITS OF YOUR WEIGHT LOSS TO DATE

FIVE DIMENSIONS OF OPTIMAL HEALTH