How to Get Rid Of Love Handles - Motivating Yourself to Exercise

When you are trying to learn how to get rid of love handles, you have to learn to exercise. This is tough if you are like me. I just don’t really like to do it. I feel better when I do, but getting started can nightmare for me. I just don’t enjoy it. But I love the benefits of it so I do it anyway. Yeah sometimes I miss a week but after that I get angry with myself and get back to it.

I have learned how to motivate myself and I want to share what I have learned with you. So here’s what works for me. I bet it will help you get motivated too.

• Have a variety. If I have to do the same stuff day in and day out I lose interest and then all motivation. After that all the work I put into figuring out how to get rid of love handles is out the door. As my Dad always says “variety is the spice of life”. So make sure you have something like Workout Pass (click here) to make absolute sure that you will not fail due to boredom
• Don’t ever say, “I will start next week”. You may as well just say, “ I am never going to lose weight”. If you allow yourself to procrastinate and give false start dates nothing will ever get done. So start today, start right now. Don’t even say, “I will start when I get home”. As of right now you are someone who is going to lose those love handles. Tony Robbins says something to the degree of “Whenever you decide to do something or set a goal, take at least one action right then”. So buy a book on exercise or diet or motivation, get the number of a local gym, or get a low fat recipe that you are going to cook tonight. Whatever it is do it right now and you will set this goal in motion. Please, take at least one action this very moment.
• Also, very important. Focus on the RESULT of the exercise you are going to do. Visualize a thinner you. Take a minute and really, really do this. By focusing on the result you are many times more likely to stick to an exercise goal you set for yourself. Remember our goal isn’t simply to exercise; it’s to enjoy the results we get from exercising. You know, something like fitting into an old pair of jeans that were hanging in the closet.

Did you ever see the Special K commercial about the daughter wearing the mom’s cool old jeans? The daughter says “Cool jeans, you used to fit into these”? The poor mom has this look on her face that just says she is going to relive that question all day and wonder what happened to make her not fit those pants anymore. The daughter walks by in the pants a few times during the commercial and the mom has the “I wish I could wear those again” look. So she loses some weight and by the end of the commercial the mom takes the jeans back and wears them out somewhere. She has this amazing look of pride on her face as she goes out the door in her old jeans. Setting and achieving goals, one of the best things in life.

With any goal you need to visualize yourself reaching the goal to get it done. Imagine you had to go buy all new clothes because you lost weight and your current wardrobe is too big. How about that? That may send you daydreaming for a while. Anyways, the point is really getting a clear picture in your head of you without those love handles.

If you have trouble with goal setting and visualizing check out Sculptor 3 by Jeff Staniforth (click here). It is a little pricey but it is gold.

Remember if you have chosen to lose those love handles, take some type of action right now. Please don’t put it off. I know we don’t know each other but I really, really, really want to hear that you succeeded. So if you make a goal to lose your love handles or lose weight, come back and visit this blog and share your success story. I would so much love to hear it. Or even share one of your own techniques on how to get rid of love handles.