Motivational Phrases for Weight Loss

Motivation is the key to success in anything we do in life. Losing weight has tremendous benefits to your overall health and quality of life, and motivational phrases are useful to keep you on track.

Motivational Notebook

• When you are trying to lose weight, it is a good idea to start with a small goal. Once you've accomplished that goal, set a new, higher goal. Write down your goals in a notebook, and keep track of your successes. This will allow you to see how you're progressing. Have a section in your notebook where you write your favorite motivational thoughts or phrases that have kept you working toward your goals. You also can make posters or signs to hang up to keep you motivated.

On Healthy Eating

• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  When I cheat on my weight loss program, I'm cheating on me.

  \"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.\" --Socrates

  Today, I will not allow my emotions, happy or sad, to push me to overeat.

  Extra pounds are the penalty I pay for overdrawing my calorie checkbook.

  Eating the wrong foods is what helped me to gain weight. Eating the right foods will help me lose.

  There's always free cheese in the mousetrap, but the mice there aren’t happy.

  When you really don't feel like going to the gym, or when you are staring down that third piece of pizza tell yourself, \"I'm better than that!\"

  Fuel is the food that makes my body run, but eating too much food slows my body down.

On Exercise

• Sweating is my body’s way of “crying off” the extra pounds.

  “Never eat more than you can lift.” --Miss Piggy

  “Motivation is what gets you started. ?Habit is what keeps you going.” --Jim Ryun

  While working out, repeat, \"Lean and fit, long and strong.”

  “Never confuse motion with action.” --?Benjamin Franklin

  \"Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride. Nobody's gonna slow me down, oh no, got to keep on movin'.\" --Wilder Matthew

  “Do or do not. There is no try.” --Yoda, from \"Star Wars\"

  \"Just Do It.\" --Nike

  “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ?--Wayne Dyer

  \"You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.\" ? --Irish proverb

  “Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.” --?Conrad Hilton

On Motivation and Dedication

• “Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.” ?--William Feather

  Eleanor Roosevelt said, \"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.\" Not even you.

  \"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy.\" --Dr. Kelso from \"Scrubs\"

  “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' ” --Mary Anne Radmacher

  If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

  You're never a failure until you refuse to get back up and try again.

  “You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” --Zig Ziglar.

  “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” ?--Stephen R. Covey

  “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or ?principle contain it or stand against it.” --Jane Smiley

  “Accurate information is a key part of motivation.” --Mary Ann Allison

  “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” --Bill Cosby

  “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” --Oprah Winfrey