Get yourself involved in a weight loss challenge

Get yourself involved in a weight loss challenge

A weight loss challenge can be any sort of activity or contest that you decide to participate in and use as a motivational tool. It could be as simple as sharing your weight loss results with friends or family members and running a competition amongst your group or as big as involving an online community with the same interests or goals as you. Whichever way you decide to do it you should find some sort of reward to compete for in order to keep motivation levels high. You should also remember to keep things fun along the way too!

As mentioned above a prize or reward can add to the motivation of people involved in the challenge so make sure this is mentioned often, ideally when sharing your weight loss amounts and setting your next goals. Include as many people in your challenge will help keep the momentum. Include those who have only a few pounds to lose as well as those with bigger goals. You can keep the weight loss recorded as percentage of the starting bodyweight to help keep things even. You should avoid making the challenge about the amount of weight lost only; try to include varied tasks week to week to avoid the main goal being extreme weight loss.

Create your first challenge

To create your first challenge you need to come up with a goal that you would like to achieve. Ideally you will already know likeminded people that would like to take part with you to lose weight together. A challenge can be the motivation you need to push you on your way to the weight loss you are aiming for. It can help create some healthy competition that will involve people rather than push people away.

A word of caution when it comes to setting your challenge, make sure that you avoid any unreasonable expectations when creating your challenge. As mentioned above use percentage weight loss rather than actual weight loss as expecting someone who is considerably smaller at the start of the challenge to lose the same amount of weight as a larger person is unreasonable and could be unhealthy. By considering the above you should form a group of people all with the same goal, all looking to motivate you towards your weight loss goals.