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Losing It With Jillian Michaels

Picture Yourself Thin

By Jillian Michaels

You want to lose 50 pounds, and you want it bad! You can even envision the new, svelte you wearing impossibly hip and fitted new clothes. Yet year after year, the pounds stick around. What's going to be different this time? You're going to have a plan! 

Without a plan, long-term goals can seem too overwhelming or too remote to achieve. If you set smaller, short-term goals, you'll be better able to stay on track and move forward. Grab a pen now and write down some short-term goals you'd like to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly in order to work toward your long-term goals. For example, you could write that you plan to prepare healthy snacks to take to work each day, to work out three times a week, or to learn five new healthy recipes a month. 

While setting and reaching a goal in itself is rewarding, sometimes a little motivation is needed. So as you write down your short-term goals, think of some rewards or incentives (ones that don't involve food!) that can keep you going and list them one by one, right next to each goal. There's no sense in pushing yourself through that extra set of lunges (the one exercise you just can't learn to love) or ten more minutes of jogging if you're going to reward yourself with more calories than you burned off. 

Start learning how to pamper yourself in healthy, life-affirming ways that have nothing to do with food. Get a manicure once a month. Go to a movie every week. Treat yourself to some new music to listen to at the gym when you hit a milestone. You get the idea! Make each reward good — and know that it'll be that much more pleasurable because you've worked so hard to earn it.

In This Article:

• Jillian Michaels: Putting the Brakes on Emotional Eating
• Jillian: Caroline Howell: Freshen That Indoor Air
• Jillian Michaels: Dial Up Your Daily Dairy Intake
• Jillian Michaels: Does the Man in Your Life Suffer from This?
• Jillian Michaels: How to Exercise When the Cold Sets In
• Jillian Michaels: Picture Yourself Thin
• Jillian Michaels: Five Tips for Taming PMS

More Articles and Tips from Jillian Michaels:

• Dueling Cardio Machines
• Staying Hip -- For Life!
• Lead by Example
• The Muscle That's Already There
• Strictly Cardio

More Q&As from Jillian Michaels:

• Sexy, Sculpted Arms
• Circuit Training 101
• How to Warm Up and Cool Down
• The Do's and Don'ts of Stretching
• Should I Work Out If I'm Sore?
• Pool Workout

Often called "TV’s toughest fitness trainer," Jillian Michaels has appeared on the U.S. and Australian versions of The Biggest Loser. Jillian is also the author of three books, Master Your Metabolism, Winning by Losing, and Making the Cut, and the creator of the online weight-loss program JillianMichaels.com. 

 

 

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