Weight Loss Motivational tip #10

Buy some new duds

All right you’ve been working hard, you’ve been loosing some weight, and you’re committed to your weight loss program, now it’s time to buy some new duds.

There is nothing better than putting on a brand new pair of clothes to make you feel on top of the world. Especially if that new pair of clothes are a couple of sizes smaller than your older ones. This is both practical and psychological, there is just so far you can tighten the drawstring on a pair of pants, so your going to need something new to wear, don’t go all hog though, these clothes are only transitional clothes, expect to have to do this 2 or 3 times.

But feel good about what you’ve accomplished, you are losing weight, buying new clothes is a tangible sign of your success, YOU ARE A WINNER. Take a moment and let that soak in. You are beating that addition, that albatross of “stuffing your face,” that has been holding you back for so many years. You are proving to yourself and to the rest of the world, that you an incredible person. And you deserve to look good because, “you’ve got what’s going on”!

Clothes are an interesting part of the human psyche; they accompany us along so many interesting portions of our life’s journey. Concerts we’ve seen, dates we’ve gone on, personalities we’ve tried and discarded, I’ve reinvented myself so many times, that I can hardly count, (actor, teacher, painter, priest, social activist, and reclose), and each time,. I have the wardrobe and costumes to match my lives. So going through my closet, trying to find things to wear, it’s like stepping back in time; my own personal time machine. And of course I feel like I’m getting younger. That’s one of the great things about loosing weight, you have the strength and energy that you had a few years back, so you feel younger. In the short 48 days I feel as if I’ve taken 3 years off my age, and I’m wearing clothes I haven’t worn for 5 years. So I’m feeling pretty good about myself, I’m even worried that the new clothes that I bought myself might turn out to be to large, (I was wearing size 7XL and bought 5XL, but I just looked at some of the winter clothes that I had to pull out because it been so cold here in Florida, and they were already 5XL, so I don’t know, I was hoping that I was going to have to grow into the new clothes, at least they were on clearance so they didn’t cost too much)(for those who don’t know, most obese people have to buy there clothes through the mail, we can’t go to a store and try on and buy clothes like everyone else, unless you want to pay through the nose in a specialty shop, so how something fits, what it really looks like we never really know until it comes in the mail, it’s like Christmas, sometimes your overjoyed sometimes your disappointed)

But I just ordered my new clothes a couple of days ago, so it will take a week or so more and I will be strutting some new duds.

So celebrate your progress, buy a new pair of pants, or a new shirt, and strut your new self, this is one of those motivations that make you feel soooooo good inside.

Peace

FM