{"id":17126,"date":"2015-05-20T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=17126"},"modified":"2015-05-20T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:13:08","slug":"non-food-related-weight-loss-goals-and-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2015\/05\/non-food-related-weight-loss-goals-and-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Food Related Weight Loss Goals and Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Short<\/a>Rewards are a big part of the whole diet and weight loss cycle. \u00a0“If I do X then I can have Y.” \u00a0Which doesn’t seem that bad but a lot of people rely on food or drink as their rewards. \u00a0“If I workout all this week, I can have fries this weekend!”<\/p>\n

I’m all about rewards but feel like we should start moving away from food\/beverage rewards and start focusing more on non-edible rewards for our hard work. \u00a0Maybe a massage? \u00a0Or a new outfit or pair of shoes?<\/p>\n

Setting rewards definitely helps keep us focused and to stay on track. \u00a0I don’t think it’s bad or counterintuitive to set rewards. \u00a0I do feel that we should make these rewards something that are also going to make us feel awesome and keep us on track with our goals.<\/p>\n

I have set up several rewards for hitting my weight loss goals. \u00a0There was a time when I didn’t even think that I would make it to any of those rewards. \u00a0It seemed so far down the tunnel that I didn’t know if there was light at the end.<\/p>\n

This month I have hit one of my goals and was able to reap the reward. \u00a0It was amazing!<\/p>\n

I have always wanted purple streaks in my hair but never pulled the trigger and got it done. \u00a0Lots of reasons why but the most recent one (and most silly!) was because I thought that I was too chubby to pull it off.<\/p>\n

Because of that reasoning, I made it one of my rewards. \u00a0Something to work towards because I really wanted that purple!<\/p>\n

And I made it! \u00a0I’m down 25 pounds thanks to working out and eating well. \u00a0That was my goal, once I was down that amount, my reward was to go and get some purple in my hair.<\/p>\n

BOOM!<\/p>\n

Now I have awesome purple hair (it’s hard to capture in a picture but it’s rad, I promise) and I feel amazing thanks to all the hard work I’ve been putting in.<\/p>\n

Do I have more goals? \u00a0You bet! \u00a0I have several for when I reach my happy weight and I can’t wait to get there because I will get to do all these awesome things.<\/p>\n

So do you have a reward for hitting a weight loss or workout goal? \u00a0If not, set one today and keep a note of it somewhere so you have a visual of what you’re working towards.<\/p>\n

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Rewards are a big part of the whole diet and weight loss cycle. \u00a0“If I do X then I can have Y.” \u00a0Which doesn’t seem that bad but a lot of people rely on food or drink as their rewards. \u00a0“If I workout all this week, I can have fries this weekend!” I’m all about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52,51],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4se","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}