Here’s 4 Accountability Habits for Achieving Permanent Weight Loss
Successful weight loss is a journey, and just like any journey, you can lose your way if you do not stay on the right track. Now you’ll discover 4 powerful ways to stay accountable for the long term and get the results you really want.
These methods will act as milestones on your journey and help you make it a truly epic one.
Use all 4 methods to stay focused and determined until you achieve the body you desire.
Here’s How To Get Started Right.
1. Get An Accountability Partner
An accountability partner can be someone who is a friend or a family member that’s physically with you or online. Their job will be to hold you accountable and help keep you focused and on track. All they’ll need to do is ask you if you’ve been working out and eating right. Depending on your situation, they can contact you daily or weekly. The goal is to make sure that you’re on track. Initially, when you’re trying to lose weight, they should contact you daily because it’s so very easy to succumb to temptation and slip up on your diet and workouts. Work together and cheer each other on.
You might also be tempted to skip your workouts because youíve not built the habit of daily exercise yet. If your accountability partner is your training partner, that will be even better.
The person who holds you accountable will need to be firm, supportive and consistent. If you keep indulging in foods that you shouldn’t be eating, your partner should be firm and tell you to throw out all the tempting and unhealthy foods in your home. They should not coddle you and say that it will be all ok, don’t worry about it and let you carry on sabotaging your efforts. Some tough love here is required to make progress.
2. Write It Down
The habit of journaling is really crucial to achieving success when it comes to weight loss. Writing down the foods you eat, the times you eat, the quantities, etc. will help you to keep your diet in check and create the awareness you need to stay on track.
You can also write down the workouts that you did and you’ll have a tangible record of your performance and will know exactly what you need to do to beat your personal bests. If you’re not able to find an accountability partner, your journal will act as one.
By writing in it daily and reading your previous entries, you’ll be able to see if you’re on track or if you’re spiralling out of control before it’s too late.
Patterns will emerge and you will realize and be aware that some situations cause you to slip up. That’s going to let you see self-sabotaging behaviours that can be avoided easily by making a few changes to your lifestyle.
3. Weekly monitoring
It is a good idea to weigh yourself once a week, measure and take a photo of yourself. This is a form of accountability and it really helps to keep you aware and on track of your results. The weight on the scale is a rough estimate to see if you’re progressing as scales are not always an accurate measure.
You will find that some of the new digital scales that measure body fat, body water, muscle mass and basal metabolic rate can be pretty good. One of the keys to getting an accurate read of the numbers is to keep your scale in one place so it calibrates accurately. When your moving the scale around it effects how well and consistently it works. I’ve had good luck with the Laica Scales that are an Italian design but still manufactured overseas. If you’re really serious about getting results it helps to track things. While you do not need to obsess over the numbers, it’s important to monitor your progress.
4. Beating personal bests
If you aren’t progressing, you’re regressing. It’s true in life and it’s especially true in wellness and weight loss. You’ve got to keep constantly moving forward and improving or you’re going to slip backwards.
This is especially true for your workouts. Every single time you step in the gym or you’re about to train, you need to know how you performed the previous time, and what you’ll need to do to beat your last workout. The goal is to always challenge yourself and improve. While it’s understandable that you may be tired on some days, for the most part, you’ll be fine and will just need to push yourself a bit further out of your comfort zone.
So use these accountability habits right away and they will keep you on track to successful weight loss. Like they say, there is no elevator to success. You must take the stairs and it helps to count each step as you go along.
As the brilliant Bob Proctor says “Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result”.
Here’s to accountability and your successful results.