I have been trying to think of little rewards I can give myself for reaching my weight loss goals and I am having difficulty. I have been doing a lot of soul-searching through October and November and I came to the realization that I already let myself have any reward I want without earning it. So I guess it isn't even a reward it's just pure pleasure-seeking behaviour. This needs to change...
Now I am trying to take the things that I used to just let myself do and make them sacred so that they can be rewards.
I came up for a really awesome one for when I hit my ultimate goal weight. My cousin is a photographer and I was going to ask her if she would do a photo shoot on me with my new hot body and confidence. I know if I were to do it now I would be so self-conscious and definitely would NOT want to see the pictures because all my fat would be showing. I davel in a little photography myself and I do like glamour and high fashion photo shoots with my friends occasionally but I never get them done because I am the one behind the camera usually. This reward is SO motivating for me. I want to be able to have pictures to show off what I've worked so hard to achieve and also to look back on when I am older and be like "damn I was hot..and still am". Our generation is one of the first that won't say "I'm not thin like I was in highschool", etc...cause many of us weren't. I want to be able to be at least thin while I am young enough to wear daring outfits, and going out on the town with friends. I have some fierce heels that get hardly any use because I don't fit into many of my bar clothes anymore.
I guess another motivator is my current wardrobe. When I came back to school in September I only brought the clothes that currently fit me...it was quite a shock when I realized that that was only HALF of the clothing I own. I am about 10lbs away from what I weighed when I fit in those clothes...maybe not perfectly, but at least I wasn't bulging in them. So I guess that will be my reward for hitting 170...old/new clothing to wear.
I am trying to find rewards that don't require me spending any money. My aunt offered to buy me two outfits, one when I lost 10lbs and one for when I lose 20. I am currently down 18...so I am so close to the outfits. I don't want them yet though, because I know I am going to lose more weight and I don't want them not to fit. Maybe I will make that my 40 and 50lb targets.
I also bought this dress...it is frickin killer. It is black and grey horizontal stripped, large stripes, strapless, VERY formfitting and about mid-thigh length. It makes my hourglass figure look banging...but that is with a lot of sucking in and strategic posing. I figure in about 20lbs it will be perfect. I am going to make it a reward to wear it out to a club once it fits. I will have to post pics...definitely.
SO recap:
175: Girly night with movies and pedicures
170: New/old wardrobe
165: Hair cut - no hair cuts till then...yikes
160: New outfit from my aunt
155: Go out in target dress
150: New outfit from my aunt
145: Tattoo??
140: Photo shoot and bathing suit
Does anyone have any rewards that cost either very little or nothing that I could use to motivate myself??
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well, the thing that i have is a goal outfit.
ReplyDeletethis might sound... werid, but i stole it from my little cousin. she's like, 11. she's the exact size that i want to be, and she (should i say her parents) is rich. she left these amazing, expensive designer jeans and this really cute top at my house one day, so i put it in my closet. she never even mentioned that she had lost it, so i just kept it.
one day, that outfit is going to look amazing on me. when it does, maybe i'll return it, lol.
That hilarious. I don't even think I was wearing clothes for 11 yr olds when I was 11 (I had huge boobs already)! That's amazing though if you get into it! How far away are you from it fitting? Is it like...half way up the thighs-can't get it over the butt, or you can do up the jeans they just make your fat bulge?
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