A lot of women want to lose those last 10 pounds, and they
would love to lose 10 pounds in a month. For women, the last 10 pounds are the
most frustrating of all. Most women who have only 10 pounds to lose usually are
not clinically overweight, which can make the task less of a priority. However,
if you truly want to lose 10 pounds in a month, you must make it a priority or
else you will never do it.
Here are 5 tips on how to lose
10 pounds in a month in a healthy way, both physically and mentally:
Tip #1: Be honest about why
you want to lose weight, and don't apologize for it. Many
women are embarrassed to admit that they want to lose 10 pounds. But if we are
always hiding our reasons behind excuses, or if we think the reasons are not
valid, we will sabotage our own efforts.
There are
no "bad" reasons. Maybe you just want to feel more confident, or
maybe you want to be able to enhance your fitness routine by dropping a few
pounds. Maybe you've gone from a size 4 to a size 6, or a size 6 to a size 8,
and you're unhappy about that. You have every right to want to maintain your
ideal weight by losing 5-10 pounds, especially because a few pounds here and
there can add up to 20 pounds a few years down the road. Since 20 pounds will
be much harder to take off as we get older and our metabolism slows and muscle
mass decreases, it's wise and actually healthy to nip any weight loss in the
bud as soon as possible.
So figure
out the reason, and whatever the reason is, tell yourself it's OK to want to
lose "only" 10 pounds. 10 pounds on a woman is significant, both
physically and mentally.
Tip #2: Strengthen yourself
mentally against the naysayers. You might be of a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI), and
people probably tell you all the time that you don't "need" to lose
weight. But this is your goal and your vision, so FORGET ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE in
order to lose 10 pounds in a month.
Women
often want to please other people and not seem selfish, so much so that they
put their own desires on the back burner. If we are not mentally strong enough
to stick to our guns, all those people who say, "You don't need to lose
weight," or "Oh come one, one glass of wine won't hurt you," or
"Do you have an eating disorder or something?" will hinder progress
towards your goal. And as it often happens, whenever women try to please other
people in a way that conflicts with their own desires, they end up feeling bad,
guilty and resentful. Those unsupportive people more than likely feel
threatened by you and your goals, because they see you achieving what they
can't. It really has nothing to do with you at all.
In this
case, it's useful to act more like a man. Create your goal, focus on it, and
don't let anything get in your way of achieving it. This is a critical behavior
to success. Don't worry, you don't have to act like a man forever, but for a
month you have to be laser focused and believe 100% in your mission.
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