Maintain Your Weight Loss Goals with Hotel Room Exercise

Staying in a hotel is not the green light for you to start neglecting your weight loss exercises. Just because you are not home does not mean you can’t do a few easy exercises in the comfort of your hotel room. Here are a few exercises you can do to keep those weight loss goals and weight lose motivation in sight.

The bed push-up
Nobody really wants to lie face down on the hotel room carpet. This exercise is a great way to do a push-up while avoiding that weird stain on the floor. What you need to do is place your shoulders onto the edge of the bed. Now scoot your feet out until you are resting against the bed in the same form you would have had you laid on the floor. Now proceed to do your push-up. The best part is that when your exhausted you have a nice soft bed right in front of you to crawl into.

The table lunge
Lunges are a great way to work your legs. Your hotel room has a great way to help you out with your lunges. All you need is a table or a chair. Place one foot onto the table. With your other foot firmly planted in front of you, bend at the knee. Do this until you form a 90-degree angle with your leg you are standing on. Now work your way back to a standing position. Continue to do this until one leg is exhausted. Swap what leg is on the table and repeat the process.

Jumping jacks
You might remember jumping jacks from your days as a young lad. The benefit to jumping jacks is that they require very little space and can get your heart rate up. This turns into a great cardio exercise. Perhaps you have forgotten how to do said jumping jack. Here is what you do. Start off by standing tall and straight. Jump into the air. While jumping, spread your legs open and bring your hands over your head. Jump again and close your legs while bringing your hand back to your side. Continue to do this for as long as you are able.

The table squat
Just like lunges, squats do a great job of working your legs. Keep in mind that your legs are the biggest muscle group in your body. Working these hard can help with those weight loss goals you have set. A squat consists of planting your feet under your shoulders. Bend at your knee while sticking your rump out behind you. Stop when your knees form a 90-degree angle. Now work your way back to a standing position. Use a table if you need something to tell you when to stop. Mix up squats with lunges for a terrific leg workout that will leave you happy you have a bed close by.

You can easily take just about any exercise and convert it into a hotel room exercise. These are just a few examples to help you during your travels. Now you have no reason to loose sight of your weight loss goal.

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HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED : How To Keep your Weight Loss Motivation

You know that you need to lose weight, you make efforts and results start coming in, but after sometimes your progress somehow stalls and this is the time when frustration sets in. You curse yourself, get angry and than forgive yourself. Weight loss does not need to mean hitting a gym after work every day. Keeping your weight loss motivation is even more important than that salad you had at lunch. Here are a few ways to keep you running towards your end goals:

Know why you want to lose the weight
Sit down one night and write out all the reasons you want to embark on this weight loss journey. There is no right or wrong reason here. The key is to put some serious thought into this list.

Write that list down and keep it somewhere you can always go back to it. You can always add more reasons. Whenever you feel like you want to just quit, grab that list and read it. The reasons you have written down will remind you why you are working so hard.

• “Because I like making an entrance when I look good, not because I can't fit through the door before bumping into a million people”
• “Because my face looks thinner”
• “I want to wear those fancy cloths, without bothering to check about the plus size section”.
• “Because a healthy glow is sexier than caked on makeup and Thanksgiving hangover puff-face”.
• “I want to be able to run the marathon”.

Set your goals
Time to write down some goals. These need to be realistic goals. Don’t shoot for the moon when you haven’t even developed the weight loss rocket. You want goals that are attainable along the way to keep that motivation zooming along.

Goals should come in the short, mid, and long-term ranges. Short-term goals can easily be mixed in with all the rest of your goals as well. Write these goals down and stick them with your list of reasons for weight loss. Every time you hit a goal, be happy and enjoy that milestone you just hit.So if you think sometimes that you are a big failure but you have a strong threshold for rejection, then you will end up always a big success with a big threshold for failure!

When thinking of your goals, remove all fears by:

• Focusing on the good 
• Focusing on the objective 
• Focusing on the goal 
• Focusing on the solution 
• Focusing on your aim 
• Focusing on your destination 

When you do, you'll see how quickly the fears disappear and you'll realize that you are retaining a high level of weight loss motivation. You can motivation to overcome the number two obstacle responsible for preventing discipline towards your weight loss goals: procrastination!


Partners are full of win
The best key for motivation is a partner. This partner can push you to your limits. They can call you on your laziness. They can even get you active when you might just stop for the day.

• Join a gym with a fat friend. Lose some weight together. In some cases, you might even be able to get a membership discount or referral bonus if you join together. Turn gym time into social time. It’ll make workouts more fun and weight loss just a little bit less painfull. 
• Engage in fitness related social activities. For example, you might organize a lunchtime basketball league. You might get your friends to go out bowling together (just watch out for the beer and pretzels). 
• Avoid food related social activities. Let’s face it: when you’re fat, you can be fat with a group of people. When you diet, you diet alone. Instead of tempting yourself with that Friday buffet, consider opting out of activities with your friends that revolve around food. 

Find events you want to take part in
Weight loss does not have to mean regular trips to the gym. Exercising can be as simple as getting out and walking around your favorite park. Activities you enjoy will make it easier to get out and exercise.

This can be taken even further though. Maybe one of your goals should be running some sort of marathon. You may want to ride your bike in the local bicycle race. This all comes down to choosing some event that you will enjoy. Once you have the event picked out, it becomes easier to train for that event than to think of it as daily exercising.

Do a little something every day
Don’t take exercise for granted. Even the slightest bit of exercise can keep you motivated to stay the course. This can be as simple as waking up, doing ten pushups and then starting your day out.

The reason this keeps you motivated is you think of that bit of exercise you did. It stays on your mind that you walked half a block across the parking lot. This in turn helps keep you from shying away from your weight loss diet plans. The end result may not be a full workout, but the peace of mind in know you still put forth an effort for the day.

Staying motivated in your weight loss goals can be difficult at times. Set your sights on the healthy end results, find some fun things to do, and watch as it becomes more about the enjoyment. This whole process can be very fun.

Tips and WarningsChoose healthy foods and activities that you enjoy. There are many options and there is no need to force yourself to eat or do something you truly don't like. Be patient with yourself. The lack of weight loss one week does not mean that you aren't benefiting from your efforts. Changes in health and fitness can't always be seen immediately, but you can be assured that your efforts are paying off even if it takes a little while to become evident.

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Motivation to Lose Weight - Where Do I Get It?

Motivation? Finding the motivation to stick with a weight loss regimen is one of the most important aspects of losing weight. If exercise and eating right if the engine – then motivation is the fuel that makes the engine run. Motivation is the difference maker between the person that meets their goals and the one who does not.

 

Motivation is the number one key to weight loss in my opinion, because without it you will most likely fail in your weight loss efforts. The main key is to find your own personal motivation.

This is something that is not as hard as you may think. You motivation could be from just about anything.

• Look better in your clothes
• Attract the opposite sex!
• Better overall health
• Increase your self confidence
• Have much more energy to play with your kids

Another motivation may like....

• My husband has promised me a 20 carat diamond for every 12 pounds I lose.
• My best friend is getting married in 9 weeks and I can’t wait to upstage her.
• I’m meeting my ex- at the end of the month.
• I’m going on a beach holiday in 4 months and I need serious body sculpture.
• I want to lower my cholesterol to xyz inside three months.

You will have to look deep within yourself. When you do this you will find your true motivation and you will be well on your way to reach your weight loss goals.

 

Here is a simple 4-step plan you can use to motivate yourself in the long run:

1. Develop a picture in your head of exactly how life is going to be when you’ve reached your goal. Not just how you’ll look, but how you feel and how your life has changed for the better.

2. Spend the last minutes before you go to sleep at night and the first few minutes when you wake up picturing and imagining that you’re there already.

3. Make this “mental movie” into a shield that you bring back in your mind every time you feel like you’re being tempted and make it very clear to yourself that your actions in that moment – to succumb to temptation or to remain true to your vision of the future – will take your life off on a different path.

4. Every single time you make the “right” decision and stick to your long term goal, congratulate yourself – see and feel yourself having grown stronger and closer to your vision for yourself than you were before. Stand tall, feel proud and move on with your life.

When you get into the habit of taking the road that leads to your ideal vision of yourself, you are building a stronger you with greater power to decide the destiny of your own life.

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